Its always amazing to see Tim Sweeney's name attached to things. The first game I played of his was ZZT around ~1992. It was a basic but super cool game that featured a basic level editor!! The idea of creating levels for a game was still very novel and very exciting for 8 year old me. I would draw out levels at school and try to create them at home (with mixed success).
It's 2022 and he's still very very relevant in the gaming world. He still runs Epic, he's still publishing papers on gaming. I don't think any of the other folks from that early era of PC gaming are still relevant in the field (Carmack moved on to VR and now AGI).
It has always been interesting to me that Carmack gets all the intention because he likes talking about himself so much, while Sweeney rather quietly toils away and is a multi-billionaire. Just reading more about him now, I'm happy to see that he is also a major conservationist.
It's 2022 and he's still very very relevant in the gaming world. He still runs Epic, he's still publishing papers on gaming. I don't think any of the other folks from that early era of PC gaming are still relevant in the field (Carmack moved on to VR and now AGI).