• You are currently viewing our forum as a guest, which gives you limited access to view most discussions and access our other features. By joining our free community, you will have access to additional post topics, communicate privately with other members (PM), view blogs, respond to polls, upload content, and access many other special features. Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free, so please join our community today! Just click here to register. You should turn your Ad Blocker off for this site or certain features may not work properly. If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact us by clicking here.

[NT] Fascinating story of INTP and ENTP power team / pioneers

themarlins

New member
Joined
Apr 23, 2010
Messages
117
John Carmack (reclusive programming genius, obvious INTP) and John Romaro (designer with entrepreneur and business sense, ENTP)

Inventors of First Person Shooters.

Made the games Wolfenstein, Doom, Quake. Pioneered the most popular and lucrative form of video games.. online multiplayer.

Part 1
id Software Part 1: Scrolling Around - YouTube
Part 2
id Software Part 2: The Third Dimension - YouTube
Part 3
id Software Part 3: The Game That Stopped The World - YouTube
Part 4
id Software Part 4: Aftershocks - YouTube


Here you'll see some distinct differences between INTP and ENTP.

The INTP is the serious, mastermind...eccentric antisocial genius working behind the scenes building the architecture of the games.
The ENTP is playful, expansive, the "idea guy", creative genius with a keen business sense and nose for entrepreneurship.

What you see is Ti/Ne versus Ne/Ti. Very similar yet very different at the same time. The INTP John Carmack is ultimately the only one that is stick with iD software and set to release a new blockbuster game this year. He stuck to his guns, and quietly mastered his craft. The ENTP got sidetracked with other stuff, always wanted to do something "new" and faded into oblivion.

You'll also see the NT way of being utilitarian and breaking rules. "Borrowing" their companies computers on the weekends to make games on them.

You'll also see the NT need for autonomy and power. Breaking free of that first company and wanting to make their own games.

They also pioneered the entire idea of making a "game engine" (NTP's have a reputation as engineers) and then selling it off to other companies. This was huge, and games today like Call of Duty STILL use a modified version of the engine Carmack built back in the late 90's for Quake 3. Now in 2011, having a "game engine" is common and many different companies license them out.

Even the name of their games are very NTP. Short, to the point, one word titles.

also pioneered "gore" in video games. And took the concept of digital distribution to the next level.


Video games - changed forever through the mind of two NTPs.
 

lunalum

Super Senior Member
Joined
Dec 20, 2008
Messages
2,706
MBTI Type
ZNTP
Enneagram
7w6
Instinctual Variant
sp/so
On the story-- very cool story on these people and how they revolutionized gaming, but just based on what I've seen so far, the types of these two are not so obvious.

About the INTP/ENTP difference-- at the extremes this is a good description of the divide, but I don't think it's this simple for those of us closer to the middle who can switch between the eccentric behind-the-scenes mastermind and the playful idea person entrepreneur, so to speak. Maybe I'm being too picky about finding distinct differences.
 
Top