Katherine Anna Kang
| Katherine Anna Kang | |
|---|---|
| Born | December 15, 1970 |
| Residence | Heath, Texas |
| Occupation | Film producer, video game producer/designer, entrepreneur |
| Spouse(s) | John Carmack (m. 2000) |
| Children | 2 |
Katherine Anna Kang (born December 15, 1970) is an American video game industry figure,machinima film producer, designer, entrepreneur and business woman.
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.
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