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IF Quake Takes Fragging To Whole New Level

Posted by simoniker on from the typing-of-the-gib dept.

Thanks to ShackNews for pointing to the impressive technical feats showcased at the unofficial IF Quake page, which bills itself as "...a port of id Software's Quake 1 engine to the Inform programming language." The site includes riveting in-game screenshots, and the FAQ page has important info on bugs with this genuinely playable, downloadable Alpha release, noting: "IF Quake interfaces directly with the Quake engine, which was obviously not designed for [this advanced] output. The errors you see related to audio and OpenGL are due to the fact that the engine is being tricked into thinking it's running normally." Rumors that John Carmack will be switching Doom 3 to this impressive new engine are yet to be substantiated, however.

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  1. Dang .... by TheViffer · · Score: -1, Troll

    takes me back to the days of Zork ...

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  2. Hang the Developers!!! by l0ungeb0y · · Score: -1, Troll

    Join in the chant: "Kill! Kill! Kill!"

    My fucking god what utter binary-filth!
    The only lower creature to spawn-camp on the face of this earth would have to be the single solitary idiot (yes we all know who you are) who downloaded and try to play this foul creation of meth-induced psychosis spun by a certain recent CS degree recipiant who has yet to get a job outside the burger flipping industry.

    And to you who flips the burgers and mangles code in ones freetime: My god man, are you mad?

    So I spawn, and then have to read three freakin paragraphs and then type in a hefty command to just try to kill something?

    Look people, if you are a developer without any new ideas that others have expressed investment in, don't try to "innovate" from some elses innovation.... Shit, write a netcraft level for christ sakes or better yet, try to do the matrix jump simulation from the tallest structure you can access. But don't take a shit on a luverly FPS for cryin out loud.

  3. in mother russia... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    we were only allowed to learn the mis-inform language

  4. Oh how nice by Raul654 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Ah, so we're slashdotting them as a punchile to a practical joke. I'm sure that'll give whoever's paying the bandwidth bill a warm, fuzzy feeling.

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