News on QUAKE

Boris Belyak написал(а) к All в Mar 95 12:27:24 по местному времени:

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* From : Alexander Falcon, 2:5020/288.8 (Friday February 24 1995 21:27)
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Talk about the next id game QUAKE. Pure facts people. Direct
quotes from id employees. Keep in mind that QUAKE is still in an early
stage, so everything here could be a total lie.


Quotes: John Romero

The next game is going to blow DOOM all to he. DOOM totally
sucks in comparison to our next game. QUAKE "The Fight For Justice!"
QUAKE is going to be a bigger step over DOOM than DOOM was over Wolf3D.
(Ya know --DOOM=pong.) We won't start developing QUAKE until Fall'
94...


From idsoftware.com's. plan:
on July 25th 6:14 p.m.

John Carmack is currently designing the engine. Multiplayer should
go something like this: Someone owns a fast server somewhere. You dial
in and join the game in progress. Ten or more people at a time can be
in the world.

....I have a question about QUAKE, you have been quoted as saying it'll
support 100 players.

Quote: John Carmack

Not me, man. That sounds like something Romero would say. The
truth is that we have no clue how many players it will support until
we're done writing it.

The game server will be well-geared to pay-for services where you
have a nice server like a medium-end wordstation. It will allow more
users and still offer smooth play.

The required line speed will depend on a lot of factors. We'll
have no idea how fast it will need to be unitl we've coded it.


From doom-editing mailing list.

QUAKE has gravity. Down is down.

In QUAKE, we're aiming for a total D&D fantasy adventure and, yesk,
there will be DRAGONS!!! (We hope. Remember we could be lying.:)

That's how QUAKE will be programmed! Not ONE SINGLE BIT of
information will be hard-coded--everything's external! We well supply a
language compiler for the C-type language that we'll use for QUAKE'S
external code modules.

id software will NEVER AGAIN get ANY CODE programmed by an outside
source (in DOOM, the only external id code was the sound code.) We will
program our own sound code, but are planning to use the VESA sound spec.

QUAKE will be client/server ONLY--even a single-player QUAKE
session will, inreality, be aa clien/server setup with the client
process and server process residing in the same system. We will make
the setup as painless as possible.

QUAKE's shareware EXE will only work with the shareware version,
unless you register (the client), in which case you will be able to play
the registered version and all the WAD'S available.

Probably an oversight. QUAKE will use NONE of DOOM'S code. Except
for memory zone allocation. The WAD utilities will be revised.

> QUAKE will run well on a Pentium, but a 486 is required. It's just
>a notch up from DOOM'S requirement: 386 required, 486 recommended.

Нopefully, the initial shareware release will handle realy dynamic
maps. id's QuakeNet will definitely have this ability. We're hoping to
start another small company that is a pure 24-hour QuakeFest! (Нey- we
want a piece of the action, too!) We're really targeting QUAKE to be
the first home cable game--brought to you through your set-top box and
played on your huge TV screen!

> You will NEED a Pentium to play QUAKE. Everyone knows you don't
>need one for DOOM either....but it doesn't hurt anything.

> QUAKE is in true 3-D. Not faked DOOM 2-D/3-D.

> QUAKE will not have one sprite in it-- all objects will be hi-res
>3-D models.

I didn't mention this before, but sound is a major integral part of
the QUAKE design and, yes, you will be able to wear a
heaadphone/microphone unit (which we will also sell--made by Koss) and
speak to each other (over a LAN only)--but not as a headset comm. You
will be "speaking into" the game world, so the closer you are to
someone, the louder your voice is. And the monsters have ears too!


STATUS OF QUAKE
Aug 9th 11:38am

John has a simple (slow) engine running. It uses converted DOOM
maps and runs them with flats for textures. It looks REALLY cool.

Quote: John

The QUAKE-by-cable will definetely won't be in the first
release--it's a couple years away at the least :)

Quote: Jay Wilbur
Aug 24

QUAKE is working. Carmack is testing the concepts.

Нope the cleared up any question you had about QUAKE. It's gonna
rock!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Привет, All!

Да, тpебования у игpушек все pастут и pастут.
Интеpесно когда она у нас появится.

Boris.

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