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id Tech 4, popularly known as the Doom 3 engine, is a game engine developed by id Software and first used in the video game Doom 3. The engine was designed by John Carmack , who also created previous game engines, such as those for Doom and Quake , which are widely recognized as significant advances in the field.
Adapted to the GPL id Tech 4 source code from Doom 3 with some issues remaining. [337] Raptor: Call of the Shadows: 1994 2023 Scrolling shooter: GPL-2.0-or-later: Cygnus Studios: DOS version source code released on October 1, 2023 on GitHub. [338] Red Dog: Superior Firepower: 2000 2022 Shooter: MIT: Argonaut Games
id Software has since publicly released the source code to Quake in 1999, Quake 2 in 2001, Quake 3 in 2005 and lastly Doom 3 in 2011 (and later the BFG Edition in 2012). The source code for Hovertank 3D and Catacomb 3D (as well as Carmack's earlier Catacomb) was released in June 2014 by Flat Rock Software with Carmack's blessing.
During the keynote address at QuakeCon 2011, John Carmack announced that the source code for the Doom 3 engine would be released. [55] The source code was open-sourced under the GNU GPL-3.0-or-later on November 22, 2011. It contains minor tweaks to the shadow rendering code to avoid potential patent infringement with a patent held by Creative Labs.
Wolfenstein 3D (1992) increased the color palette from 16-color EGA to 256-color VGA and also adopted raycasting.The game engine was also licensed out to other companies. The source code to Wolfenstein 3D, along with its prequel Spear of Destiny, was released on 21 July 1995 under a proprietary license, and then later under GPL-2.0-or-later.
Doom 3: Maelstrom is the second book in a series of three novels regarding Doom 3. The book was released in March 2009 . Before writing the book, its author Matthew J. Costello , wrote the scripts for Doom 3 and Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil .
The year is 2144 and the battle over Earth's precious resources has raged for a century. With global economies in ruins and all-out world war more than a possibility, the U.S government turned to the Union Aerospace Corporation, giving it carte blanche on the legendary red planet of Mars in a desperate bid to construct an off-world outpost that might provide resources and a military advantage ...
Between 2019 and 2021 K1n9_Duk3 recreated the source code of Commander Keen 4, 5 and 6, based on the already released source code of Catacomb 3-D, Wolfenstein 3-D and Keen Dreams. When compiled with the Borland C++ v3.0 compiler, compressing the newly created executables with LZEXE 100% identical copies of the original v1.4 executables are ...