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Videogame industry luminary and legend Tim Schafer will this week receive a lifetime achievement award during this year’s IndieCade Awards ceremony, for acting as a role model to indie gamers and for personifying “the risk-taking, boundary pushing spirit at the heart of the indepedent gaming community.”

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Videogame industry legend, programming technology guru and id Software (DOOM, Quake) co-founder John Carmack is set to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at the upcoming Game Developers Choice Awards for his outstanding contributions to the art and science of games, following in the footsteps of prolific industry stars Sid Meier, Shigeru Miyamoto, Hideo Kojima and Richard Garriott.

The Lifetime Achievement Award recognises “the career and achievements of developers who have made an indelible impact on the craft of game development,” and with Carmack’s more than two decade history of making games, working on breakthrough technology and his contributions to popularising the first-person shooter genre with titles such as Wolfenstein, DOOM and Quake, as well as his efforts in continually pushing the bounds of graphics technology, you could say he’s made an “indelible impact” on game development.

Event Director of the Game Developers Conference Meggan Scavio said of Carmack and the award:

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