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Set 12/25 and you will get a Christmas theme in Rise of the Triad game. There are other Easter eggs for other holidays too!

dont ask me why i know this but that little pixelized naked woman they have pictured on that atari 2600 DNF link you posted is from a game called Beat 'Em and Eat 'Em. i hope this means the design team is putting in similar fantastic gameplay ideas into DNF.

dont ask me why i know this but that little pixelized naked woman they have pictured on that atari 2600 DNF link you posted is from a game called Beat 'Em and Eat 'Em. i hope this means the design team is putting in similar fantastic gameplay ideas into DNF.

Previously on Duke Nukem Forever: Penny Arcade, Atari 2600. The Atari 2000 version is actually a real cart.

Or what about those games that depict World War II? Should the Germans or the Russians be pissed?

When I was looking up info on DukeNukem3D for a post, I noticed this nifty litte blurb for "Wolfenstein 3D":

Due to the game content, this game may not be ordered by residents of Germany.

I'm not going to look for other examples, but if they can't purchase the game...

On Monday I saw that Fox 5 was running a story on :: brace yourself :: Duke Nukem 3D!

I was laughing for about a minute when I saw the clips in the commercial previewing their 'news'.

Since when is EIGHT YEARS OLD considered new?

Also, if you look at the advisory label (about 2 screens down), it's rated 1 of 4 for "Nudity/Sex", an issue that Fox5 was pursuing (at least in the commercial I saw). At least use an example that's 2 or higher. Then again, the commercial wouldn't have been as funny.

... Putting a game through that one extra QA run probably means delaying the shipping date. Unfortunately the trend seems to be just that.. moving away from quality, towards 'assembly line' products ...

Three cheers for the developers of Duke Nukem Forever for choosing quality over 'assembly line' products!

3D realms, provided a random level generator for Rise Of The Triad.

The utility came on the CD version of the game. It would work as advertised and generate random levels. Every now and then you'd get a good deathmatch level out of it.

So I would imagine that one could write an engine to generate a random level for any game. This would be a bit simpler probably for older 2 1/2 D games like Doom, ROTT and Descent, compared to full 3D engine games like the Quake and Unreal series. But definitely do-able I think.

wbs.

I guess Shadow Warrior 2 is out of the question?

The game was originally titled Dark Justice, as this well describes the game's theme.

That's rather funny... Max Payne 2 had an episode of 'Dick Justice' on one of the TV's, where a fugitive cop went after the people who killed his wife. But instead of film noir style, it was like 70's.

Hey... that gives me an idea.... anyone interested in doing a rewrite of commander keen? How about Commander Gates: Goodbye Windows! for a title :-)

If you play on the one of the designer's birthdays, Raptor: Call of the Shadows will give you a silly song for the beginning instead of the usual Apogee ditty.

[insiders putting] movies online before theatrical release [..]

Hopefully someone working on Duke Nukem Forever is reading /. today..

I think the boys at id manage to make a bit of a profit on their games...

Does that mean that Longhorn is coming out for the Atari 2600 also?

[The game companies] label [efforts to make older games available through downloads and emulators] piracy that could undercut future efforts to reissue such games in the form of classic compilations or to update them as remakes.

Ok, so the plan is to bring out a collection of old games for the Atari XL or the ZX 81 or the C64 in the future? And there will be enough potential customers so that releasing the game into the public domain (or publishing the code) is a bad move financially??

I don't think so. And even if it was true, how many collections of old (8-Bit) games do you know? And how many follow-ups to a classic game have hit the market and made money?

I guess the real problem is that the old companies do not exist anymore, or have been bought out by other companies. And now nobody in the gaming industry knows or cares who has which rights to those games.

And with regard to 'remakes': the Duke Nukem 3D source code has been published under the GPL. Ports have been created. Will this hurt the sales of DNF? Go figure ;)

Well, some companies like 3D Realms and id Software are still independent. :) They employ publishers, but only for marketing, distribution, etc., not to to finance their development. If Duke Nukem Forever ever gets done, this will be an indie game. :)

Well, some companies like 3D Realms and id Software are still independent. :) They employ publishers, but only for marketing, distribution, etc., not to to finance their development. If Duke Nukem Forever ever gets done, this will be an indie game. :)

from 3DRealms max payne site:

Q: So let me get this straight, I've read articles on Max that mention Remedy, 3DRealms and The Gathering of Developers. Who's doing what?
A: Remedy is developing the game, all technology, editors, art, sounds, the story, etc. have been done at Remedy office. 3DRealms is taking part in that development by helping out on content and gameplay matters, Scott, George and everyone at 3DR are outstanding hardcore game developers and we really dig working with them. The Gathering is our publisher and will eventually ship all those Max Payne boxes to the shelves with Take2 handling European distribution.

For programming mods for Duke Nukem Forever for the 2600

Didn't Commander Keen already discover life on Mars? I remember running all over that place.

Billy Blaze, eight year-old genius, working diligently in his backyard clubhouse has created an interstellar starship from old soup cans, rubber cement and plastic tubing. While his folks are out on the town and the babysitter has fallen asleep, Billy travels into his backyard workshop, dons his brother's football helmet, and transforms into... COMMANDER KEEN--defender of Earth! In his ship, the Bean-with-Bacon Megarocket, Keen dispenses galactic justice with an iron hand!

It's actually in the works. Has been, since, uh 1997 (almost six years so far, and counting!) The webpage is here.

The DNF team started work with the Quake I engine, dumped it for the Quake II engine, dumped it for the Unreal engine...not sure what they're working on now, but it better not be the Unreal engine (the original one; not UT or UT23k), as that'd be hideously ancient by now too.

Still no release date set. But we're assured that they're still working on it.

It was released for Macintosh.
The best selling game of 1996, 3D Realms' Duke Nukem 3D is coming to the Macintosh as MacSoft ships the title today
(Circa 1997)

of course they did, and they even have achived something

The win32 port here was released several hours before the linux port.

a Win32 port HAS been released. Check this thread on the 3drealms forum. It supports all versions of duke (except the shareware), and you don't need to install it, you just need the .grp file and the .cons that were released with the source.

It's been released actually..

... or maybe Prey.

Does anyone know what happened to Prey? I remember it was announced back when around the time Quake came out and KMFDM were supposed to provided the soundtrack.

The most I can find about it is this outdated FAQ.

Any info would be great!

Console Version of DNF

thats right, duke nukem ##$@^@ 3D source code released under the GPL at www.3drealms.com you can download the source at http://7thguard.net/files/duke3dsource.zip and other mirrors listed at 3drealms web page. but hey, for whatever reason slashdot doesnt consider that newsworthy yet.

Oh, haven't you heard?

They've delayed DNF due to a platform switch. This one looks REALLY good!

It's been released for the Atari 2600! ;)

didn't you know.
duke nukem forever is released:
http://www.3drealms.com/duke4/dnf2600.html

Here's the link

Nope, but the source code for Duke Nukem 3D is released under the GNU GPL. :)

oops
that was for duke nukem
dnkroz - full weapons...
Duke Nukem 3d Cheats

Bottom of the page. here.

"The original Keen series was a trilogy of games. Keens 1-3 were collectively called "Invasion of the Vorticons". As Tom talks about above, the sequel was also to be a trilogy of games, but the id guys were convinced to break Keen 6 off and make it into an independent retail item. To this, the sequel that was distributed through Apogee was only two games. Episodes 4 & 5 were collectively called "Goodbye Galaxy", and Keen 6 was called "Aliens Ate My Babysitter". Keen 6 was sold by FormGen in retail, and since it was in retail, FormGen convinced the id guys to put in some off disk copy protection for the game. The fact that Keen 6 was broken off into it's own game, and the addition of the copy protection kind of made the "vibe" not the same as the original, but Keens 4-6 are awesome games, even if it's not a trilogy.

One last note about Keen 6. At the moment, there is no legal way to obtain the game - it was a retail game by FormGen that Apogee merely resold the title. As FormGen doesn't exist anymore, the game has been discontinued, and for now, there is no legal way to obtain Keen 6 (save for the 3 level demo which was created to promote Keen 6)."

I'm fortunate enough to have a copy (including the box!), but it's in 5 1/4 disk format and basically an item of nostalgia sitting on a shelf.

You remember somewhat wrong. Duke Nukem 3D was relased in '96. 3D Realms quotes the date to be January 29th. And 91 is a probably bit early for 486dx -100 to.

From The DNF product page:

"Job: Project Leader / Sh!t Filter (tm)

Spends all his available time (when not playing EverQuest) trying to decide what the team should focus on and accomplish next."

There you go, EverQuest is to blame.

4. MORE years pass. Apogee is eventually bought out by 3D Realms, makers of (among other things) Duke Nukem, which is another "Doom Clone".

This site Copyright © 1987-2002 Apogee Software, Ltd.
All trademarks, logos and images are the property of their respective companies.

Link: "It's funny that our news piece a few days ago said "We're still here" when some game magazines think we're be dead. That's what it appears we are to Computer Gaming World. They have a monthly section in their magazine called "Pipeline" where they talk about their "educated guesses" on game release dates. As everyone knows (or should know) by now, the release date for Duke Nukem Forever is "When it's done".

Last month we were labeled "Never", and now we're labeled "RIP" by the article's author Rich Laporte. Be curious to see what Rich has to say when DNF is released (When it's done, of course). [Wink]"

The crown has to go to either Team Fortress 2 or Duke Nukem Forever. TF2 was being developed as far back as 1998! As for Duke Nukem Forever... hell, I remember when they were using the Quake 2 engine!

here

The newstopic references the original thread where 3drealms announced the source code release.

They have now made a new section just for Source Code Release Discussion:

Here's a list of links to the award winners from AGDC (for games from Australian Game Developers only)

I'm pretty sure this list is correct, there's no official list at the AGDC Awards site yet:

Award for Outstanding Innovation:
Micro Forte Big World Technology

Best New Start-Up:
Evolution Games

Best Game of 2002
+ Best Game for Next Generation Consoles
+ Award for Outstanding Visual Arts
+ Best Game Audio
+ Award for Programming Excellence
Grand Prix Challenge

Best Game for PC
+ Best Game Design
Freedom Force

Best Game for Game Boy Advance:
Duke Nukem Advance

Best Character Design:
Ty the Tasmanian Tiger

Best Level Design:
Hotwheels Bash Arena (don't know a link for this)

Best Unsigned Game:
Wicked Witch Software I don't know the game name, but it wasn't their Mary-Kate & Ashley game :-)

And here I thought Prey had been cancelled...

The Brits has bought Duke Nukem's digital DNA from 3D Realms. "We needed people who could protect our women from the aliens. Therefore we'll clone a bunch of human embryos with Duke's digital DNA, and get us some superhumans." said the British Defense Secretary, Geoff Hoon.

Now you all know that 3D Realms has been marketing Duke Nukem's DNA instead of working on Duke Nukem Forever... Well, it's coming "When it's done"... *yawn*

The Brits has bought Duke Nukem's digital DNA from 3D Realms. "We needed people who could protect our women from the aliens. Therefore we'll clone a bunch of human embryos with Duke's digital DNA, and get us some superhumans." said the British Defense Secretary, Geoff Hoon.

Now you all know that 3D Realms has been marketing Duke Nukem's DNA instead of working on Duke Nukem Forever... Well, it's coming "When it's done"... *yawn*

Also, you claim this Half-Life (never heard of it) was more popular than Quake? I doubt that. You'd see it in stores or see it mentioned on Usenet if it was.

Where do you *live*?

Half-Life has been the foundation for the most popular FPS (unless UT took it away for a bit) for years. The original Half-Life was perhaps the first popular FPS to have a decent story (ignoring, of course, the elderly and much-revered Marathon (I challenge *anyone* to find a game that has developed a fan base as fanatical as the one that has developed the site at the other end of this link -- look at the "Facts and Puzzling things about..." sections)). Half-Life vastly changed the face of the FPS industry, and brought in much more scripting and plot work to FPSes, leading to impressive newer games like Max Payne.

Half-Life spawned two short sequels from Valve (Opposing Forces and Blue Shift). It is the game that the phenomonally popular Counterstrike mod was made for.

Half-Life is also notable for its very quick software renderer, its introduction of the newer "multiple weapons per slot" weapon inventory system, and popularizing manually-triggerable reloading.