/vr/ - Retro Games

>>9095535
Plenty have. Generally the reply is a no because the rights aren't 100% in their hands.

Guys like John Romero used to share alpha and beta stuff of Doom and what not every now and then, back in like 2014 or 2015 he released a big dump of unused/WIP assets for Doom and Doom 2 which had lots of sprites and textures people had never seen before, as well as a beta level build of Doom 2. This was a massive treasure trove which isn't just interesting to look at as is, but for textures and sprites, there's stuff which was readily usable or which could easily be adapted for use. Some may think of that as "seeing the sausage get made", but as a mapper/spriter it was like learning a couple of the secrets to making sausage.

ZeniMax owns iD Software, and Zenimax isn't very interested in having some former dev give away stuff like this (they probably already hate that John Carmack gave away the source code in 1997), and with Romero insinuating that there's a lot left he hasn't shown, he won't release it becasue ZeniMax threatened him.

tl;dr it's usually not in individual dev's hands

>>2779931
Oh, my mistake.
Well, it looks nice.