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It is "id" software, no caps, no periods. It is named for this concept: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id,_ego_and_super-ego http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id,_ego
by AndrewNCarr 14y ago
It is "id" software, no caps, no periods. It is named for this concept: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id,_ego_and_super-ego http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id,_ego_and_super-ego
I used to make similar mistakes years ago, for a long time thinking it was "Eye Dee Software", so I'm posting this to enlighten others, rather than being a grammar commie.
Interestingly, there was a game called iD published in 1986: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ID_%28video_game%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ID_%28video_game%29
- jaxb 14y agoCorrected, thanks.
- DigitalJack 14y agoI've been calling them eye dee software since the first wolfenstein came out. I forget when I learned it rhymed with lid, but I just can't make myself say it that way.
- rm445 14y agoIt might help you to know that 'id' is a real word, part of the mind (in Freud's theory) along with the ego and super-ego. Many apologies if this is patronising, just the way you wrote rhymes with lid rather than just the word id made me unsure if you were aware of it.
- 1123581321 14y agoNo, it is a lowercase shortening of the acronym for Ideas From the Deep, which is what they called themselves before id. Ideas From the Deep becomes IFD becomes ID.
- AndrewNCarr 14y agohttp://www.idsoftware.com/business/history http://www.idsoftware.com/business/history "Taking its name from Freud's primal, instinct-driven face of the human psyche, id Software is, by general acknowledgement, the coolest game shop in the world."
- 1123581321 14y agoThat is still not the origin.