Duke Nukem Forever 2001 Build Discussion

Mega Man 2 Intro - NES said:
What's a good game engine? I want to know because I've seen this said about a lot of them and then there's devs who move away from their own engines. Is it even possible to code a good game engine these days? Every story I hear sounds like all game developers just barely slap together a functional product with broken tools and somehow we have a thriving industry that rarely results in a Cyberpunk fiasco.
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I think if you did a broad poll of devs across the gaming world, and asked them to pick one of the major engines, I can see most picking Unreal or Unity.
 
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Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
The software renderer of Q2 is both a blessing and a curse. The garish lighting is gone and running at lower res made it hard to see the models, including the weapons, jellying around all over the place. The downside was that in software it was just concrete grey and rust red/brown.

Kingpin might be the most unfortunate Q2 based game. It came out late enough(1999) that most everyone had a 3D accelerator of some kind, it looked good and being Q2 based at that time meant it ran fast enough that it could be played at 800x600 or 1024x768 at a high framerate by most of the people they intended to be their audience. It still used Q1/Q2 style vertex animation and at a high framerate and high resolution that looks truly atrocious.
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Q2's animation looked incredible compared to Q1 and, of course, sprites. But it was not long afterward that mocap and skeletal animations hit the scene. In fact, Goldeneye and Turok: Dinosaur Hunter had much more advanced animations than Quake II. Most people don't know this, but the N64 did vertex manipulation on the GPU*, not the CPU, and was capable of much faster calculations of that nature than a same-gen Pentium.

*fuck off, NVIDIA shills, it was a GPU

Misconstrooey said:
Reminder that an entire text document from one of the leaked Blood alphas details a disgruntled developer's struggles with Ken and his horrible engine changes he pushed on the team mid development. Ken was goddamn gifted but he was also young, dumb, and stubborn as a mule.
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Besides being a teenager when he worked for 3DR, Ken is almost certainly autistic as well, and back then, there wasn't any awareness of how to manage devs on the spectrum. Another problem is that GB was always a terrible project manager. Somebody else may have been able to manage Ken.
 
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Nguyen Van Phuoc said:
best usage of godot:
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I'm honestly surprised that more Indian/Chinese content farms haven't switched to Godot. I'm assuming it's the lack of content packs/game templates and these studios probably don't pay for licences in the first place.
Anyway, I'm MORE surprised that a studio like Blind Squirrel - an industry name for top quality ports - would allow this to be released.
 
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Meanwhile, i trying to get a copy of Duke Nuken 3D but Windows Defender really dont't like any of the copies a got. Fuck, am i going have to the get the 20th Anniversary do i?*sigh*
 
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It's already over. It's been compromised by furries/trannies for the restoration project
https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/599910971/
https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/599957541/

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SlipNHonk said:
It's already over. It's been compromised by furries/trannies for the restoration project
https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/599910971/
https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/599957541/

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Fun fact: What these crazy people say isn't what the team is after. The dev team split after the original server admin went nutso, so now we're on a separate server to do our work peacefully.

ZERO, I repeat ZERO modern day politics shit will be included. We've had entire hours long discussions on it, and it's not gonna make the cut. We're sticking to the OG 2001 vibes and style.

Also, this tranny isn't even on the dev team lmao
 
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JongleJingle said:
Fun fact: What these crazy people say isn't what the team is after. The dev team split after the original server admin went nutso, so now we're on a separate server to do our work peacefully.

ZERO, I repeat ZERO modern day politics shit will be included. We've had entire hours long discussions on it, and it's not gonna make the cut. We're sticking to the OG 2001 vibes and style.

Also, this tranny isn't even on the dev team lmao
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The original server admin went nutso how?

and is there anyone in the original discord thats likely to do any actual work on anything or is just larping troons and randos left?

more to the point though are you taking any steps to make sure this new discord isn't just going to befall the same problems?
 
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