The question and answer session with John Carmack from QuakeCon 2011 is now online - it's a little more accessible to those of us that don't have advanced degrees in hyperbolic topology (n-hey) so is worth a watch if you want to hear Carmack brain dumping on a variety of topics.

Some of the interesting points:

- while Rage won't initially have dedicated servers, it is possible that it might get them later
- dedicated servers will be a must-have in future id games
- voxel engines are something he's spent a lot of time looking at, but it sounds like he still thinks polygons are the way to go
- Quake Live isn't making money now and they're not looking at future free/ad-funded games
- outside of games, Carmack's rocketeering enterprise Armadillo Aerospace has actually been making money doing government contracts, but Carmack is worried that is holding them back, so they're going to stop doing that and he's simply going to fund their research.

Watch below!


QuakeCon 2011 "John Carmack Q&A" Video