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John Romero discusses the development of Quake, which resulted in half of Id software including Romero leaving the company

Posted by imperialismus
Tags: quake, fps, gamedev, john romero, games studios, id software, graphics, developers.video game, videos, wearedevelopers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWREOgyPLt4

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Title
The Quake Postmortem: The End of the Original Id - John Romero
Authors
WeAreDevelopers
Duration
23:50
Published
Jul 11 2019

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  1. rkcr
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    Anyone who is interested in Id history must read "Masters of Doom". It's a great, informative book.

    Anyone who is interested in Id history must read "Masters of Doom". It's a great, informative book.

    6 votes
  2. cfabbro
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    Oh God, seeing the CAD-like QuakeEd brings back memories. Quake was the first game I ever learned how to mod and create levels for, and when Mr. Romero says using it was incredibly labour...

    Oh God, seeing the CAD-like QuakeEd brings back memories. Quake was the first game I ever learned how to mod and create levels for, and when Mr. Romero says using it was incredibly labour intensive... he ain't kidding. Though he should have probably added "tedious, frustrating, annoying, headache-inducing, etc" as well. :P Thankfully a bunch of community created mapping and modding tools came out pretty quickly afterwards that were far less cumbersome and unintuitive than the official ones.

    Thanks for sharing this talk @imperialismus, it was interesting and brought back some good memories. :)

    2 votes