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Alternatively, you can keep updating your games until the end of times like Valve does. On a serious note, the thing about Doom and other Id games is that they
by Maken 10y ago
Alternatively, you can keep updating your games until the end of times like Valve does.
On a serious note, the thing about Doom and other Id games is that they used to release the complete toolbox along with the game, allowing anybody to create content on-par with the base product.
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoTrue, but Duke Nukem 3D did the same thing (actually, id didn't release any tooling for Doom: id's internal DoomEd was written in Objective-C for NeXT machines, so it wouldn't have been much use in any case. They didn't start releasing their internal design tools until a bit later, meaning that DN3D did it first), and DN3D's community is virtually dead, while Doom's continues to thrive.
- blakeyrat 10y agoI was about to point out that Marathon: Infinity did it first, but it turns out DN3D beat it by about half a year. The fact that Marathon: Infinity included the game editor on the disk was a huge deal at the time though. Obligatory name-dropping of Marathon, the greatest game to be virtually ignored by all gaming analysis/histories.