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About this siteFor six years, the Internet Nexus served as my technology blog, but I've since started blogging at the SuperSite Blog instead. If you're looking for the blog, please head there. --Paul Monday, August 18, 2003Excellent John Carmack interviewGamespy has an excellent interview with id programming guru John Carmack that's worth reading. Among the tidbits: He's not retiring after DOOM 3 ("I've got at least one more rendering engine to write," he says); the development of the DOOM rendering engine went surprisingly smoothly; id's 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 there is a possibility that older id games will be re-released using the new DOOM 3 engine. This last one sounds like a great idea: "I thought it would be kind of neat if we took the DOOM renderer, and we had a team take previous games-don't touch the game, just revamp it graphically," he says. "Just 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 instead of a boutique price. I thought that was a pretty good idea." As someone who has spent hundreds of dollars on id Software, I can only say: Do it. Please. [ Posted at 1:13 PM | Permalink ]
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