/vr/ - Retro Games

Interceptor Entertainment bought (what was left of) 3DRealms.

They got access to backups of all the games by 3DRealms, including every-day backup saves from very early alpha and beta versions of games.

They decided to send the Duke Nukem 3D and Shadow Warrior related stuff to 2 of the devs of EDuke32 who have been going through it lately.

They've showed a little of what they found so far, but not much. However, we'll get to know everything little by little starting next month with the launch of the new 3DRealms website. Interceptor CEO said he planned to release stuff 'as is' as well as in a 'playable state".

Some interesting stuff :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwEqS1UHJxk

some random things :
- traces of the expander of very old versions of the map "It's Impossible!" (which both are from the Atomic Edition, released AFTER the original duke3D) were found in builds from 1994. Which means that the Atomic Edition episode is most likely made of TONS of scrapped content.

>>1695651
Also about the "not careful design" thing, apparently the last build of SW, the actual SW (before that, that's how it looked like, pic related) seemed to have been built very fast. Like, they released Duke3D, and they thought "okay now that we're good at that, let's make another one quickly"; and at the same time they were also working on Atomic Edition of Duke3D and the very first Builds of a sequel to Duke3D.


>>1696269
Had forgotten about Future Shock (I think lot's of people do). I never actually beat it.

>>1696274
Ah yeah, dumb of me...

Discuss games made in Ken Silverman's Build engine! Like this one! It's an early version of Shadow Warrior back when it was a more serious FPS set in Feudal Japan! Exclamation!