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Carmack: id Working on Quake 3 iPhone Port, Considering Wii Game

Feb 24, 2009 6:19pm CST tags: id, Quake Live
id co-founder John Carmack says that his company is currently developing a Quake III port for the iPhone, that may incorporate some of the changes made in the upcoming browser form of the title, Quake Live.

"We have Quake III up and running on the iPhone," said Carmack to MTV. "It needs a new redesign of the render to make it fast enough to be really good playing on the iPhone."

"I've got this interesting decision about it here," he continued. "If we take all that around, we may go back and take all the changes that the Quake Live team has done from the original code base and make more of a modern Quake III Arena based on the Quake Live work."

Carmack also mentioned that his company has been considering Wii development, but that other than a secretive iPhone project, none of id's... Read more