The book Masters of Doom details the story of John Carmack and John Romero, founders of id Software, and how they built a video game empire by constantly learning, forming their own opinion, and doing something they genuinely loved. This book is about the founding story of id Software, the company that invented the genre of the first person shooter with a game called Wolfenstein 3D, which is now considered the ancestor to contemporary games like Call of Duty and Battlefield.