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Name
  
Katherine Kang

Role
  
Film producer


Spouse
  
John Carmack (m. 2000)

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Born
  
December 15, 1970 (age 53) (
1970-12-15
)

Occupation
  
film producer, video game producer/designer, entrepreneur

Education
  
University of California, Los Angeles

Children
  
Christopher Ryan Carmack

Katherine Anna Kang (born December 15, 1970) is an American video game industry figure, machinima film producer, designer, entrepreneur and business woman.

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Career

In 2000, as founder and CEO of Fountainhead Entertainment she championed machinima and became known as one of machinima’s biggest supporters. Through Fountainhead Entertainment, she produced, wrote, and directed a variety of machinima pieces and co-founded the Academy of Machinima Arts & Sciences. In Machinima For Dummies, the machinima piece Anna is mentioned as “… one of the top ten list of every prominent machinima maker in the world.”

While at Fountainhead Entertainment, Kang produced and designed mobile games for id Software. Mobile game titles Doom RPG and the Orcs & Elves series were heralded as some of the best mobile games of their time. Orcs & Elves was eventually ported to the Nintendo DS with Kang producing and designing.

Formerly, Kang was the Director of Business Development for id Software where she worked on Quake III Arena and various mission packs and Quake II ports. In 2008, she returned to id Software as President of id Mobile where she produced and designed Wolfenstein RPG and Doom II RPG. She also produced the iPhone-only game Doom Resurrection. A 2014 article listed her as a "former director of business development at id Software", following her husband's departure from id in 2013.

Kang’s contributions to machinima are noted in the published book The Art of Machinima, written by Paul Marino.

Kang is also co-founder of Armadillo Aerospace.

Personal life

Kang married game programmer John Carmack on January 5, 2000. In August 2004, Kang gave birth to their first child. Their second child was born in November 2009. Due to her involvement with id Software and John Carmack, she was mentioned in the final chapters of Masters of Doom.

Awards

Through Fountainhead Entertainment, Kang has won the following awards:

  • AMAS Best Technical Achievement for Anna
  • AMAS Best Direction for In The Waiting Line
  • IGN.com Adventure Game of the Year for Doom RPG
  • 1UP.com Mobile Game of the Year for Doom RPG
  • Gamespot’s Mobies Mobile Game of the Year for Doom RPG
  • Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences Best Cell Game for Orcs & Elves
  • IGN.com Best of E3 – Best Wireless RPG for Orcs & Elves
  • IGN.com Best Wireless Story for Orcs & Elves
  • Leipzig Game Convention Best Mobile Game for Orcs & Elves

    • Machinima

    Fountainhead's machinima include the award-winning short Anna; In The Waiting Line, aired on MTV; Game Over, aired on UPN; and Sidrial released via Fileplanet.

    Games

  • Quake II (1997), for Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, developed by id Software, published by Activision
  • Kingpin: Life of Crime (1999), for Microsoft Windows, Linux Interplay Entertainment Corp
  • Quake III Arena (1999), for Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, developed by id Software, published by Activision
  • Doom RPG (2005), developed by id Software, published by JAMDAT
  • Orcs & Elves (2006), for mobile phone, developed by id Software, published by EA
  • Orcs & Elves (2007), for Nintendo DS, developed by id Software, published by EA Mobile
  • Orcs & Elves 2 (2007), developed by id Software, published by EA Mobile
  • Wolfenstein RPG (2008), for mobile phone, by id Software, published by EA Mobile
  • Doom Resurrection (2009), for iOS, developed by id Software
  • Doom 2 RPG (2010), for mobile phone, by id Software

    • References

    Katherine Anna Kang Wikipedia
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