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3D Realms Buys Physics For Duke Nukem Forever

Posted by Zonk on from the don't-hold-your-breathe dept.

sp00 writes "In a press release, Meqon announces 3DRealms has purchased the Meqon Game Dynamics SDK engine for the upcoming title Duke Nukem Forever. There are some neat demos of the engine here. Is DNF finally a reality?"

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  1. Other News: by sithkhan · · Score: 5, Funny

    Pigs Fly.
    Hell Freezes Over.
    I get a date.

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  2. Heh by cjpez · · Score: 5, Insightful

    While not really knowing much about typical game development processes, I imagine that getting the SDK to your basic game engines would be some of the first steps you'd take before development. Wouldn't that imply that development on DNF, er, has yet to start? Or is being restarted again to use yet another new engine? Too funny.

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    1. Re:Heh by cgenman · · Score: 5, Interesting

      This doesn't appear to be a basic game engine, but rather a bolt-on physics and character animation module, Ala Havok. Buying one generally means that they have a game engine to attach it to, and have tried it out and liked it in-game. The rigid-body and ragdoll collision code on the last game I worked on didn't go in until about three months before the end of the project, as it wasn't integral to the gameplay. Very few FPS games have taken their physics model seriously as a gameplay element, and as such I'd (Id?) be surprised if DNF's gameplay had to be reworked for such a thing. If any other game licensed this engine today, I'd put them roughly 6 months from ship. Now with DNF, on the other hand, all bets are off. This won't be the first physics solution they have tried, and it may not be the last.

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  3. No by PrvtBurrito · · Score: 5, Funny
    Is DNF finally a reality?

    No.

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  4. Enginer by Silicon+Mike · · Score: 5, Funny

    The real question is how does the new engine interact with vapor?

  5. Upcoming by nick_davison · · Score: 5, Funny

    for the upcoming title Duke Nukem Forever

    Upcoming kind of implies that it's actually going to happen some day soon. As opposed to "the upcoming sun going supernova" - which is on about the same timescale as Duke Nukem Forever.

  6. DNF by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is the abreviation used in a race to mean DID NOT FINISH

  7. Breaking news... by badfrog · · Score: 5, Funny

    The most awaited game of 1998.....Just picked ANOTHER 3D engine to start the development cycle all over again with!

  8. The DNF Timeline by ryder · · Score: 5, Funny

    Check it out! My Favorite bit: The rovers Spirit and Opportunity were proposed, authorized, announced, designed, launched and successfully landed upon Mars within the timeframe of Duke Nukem Forever's development.

  9. They will change physics engines again... by JavaLord · · Score: 5, Funny

    The laws of Physics will change before this game comes out.