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Carmack On Doom 3, Quake II Remix

Posted by simoniker on from the hail-to-the-leader dept.

Thanks to GameSpy for their interview with id Software's John Carmack, as part of their continuing QuakeCon coverage. Subjects include whether he'll retire after Doom 3 is done ("No. I've got at least one more rendering engine to write"), what id will be working on next ("Our next game is not going to be a DOOM, Quake, or Wolfenstein sequel, it's going to be something new and that is a foregone conclusion"), and smaller ideas they're considering, but not necessarily working on ("...[to] take Quake II, and just use the DOOM engine to make brand new graphic models and everything. But don't spend time messing with the gameplay because we know that is pretty good. Just release it as Quake II Remix with brand new graphics technology and sell it at a middle-level price.")

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  1. Check out Tenebrae2 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    The Tenebrae project has been working with the GPL Quake engine to create Doom3-like graphics, and they are working on adopting this to Quake II (Tenebrae2)

    Link is here: http://tenebrae.sf.net

  2. Contradiction with other id members by myoohn · · Score: 1, Informative

    In this inveterview (one day after gamespy's), on the second page, two id members say the reason why John C wasnt there for Q&A meeting the previous day....physically sick

    and John Carmack was talking to Gamespy?!