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Re: Wolfenstien 3D

#152
From: e... Ed Goldman
Date: Fri, 15 May 1992 16:00
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In article <1992May15....@cs.joensuu.fi> jpe...@cs.joensuu.fi (Juha Pehkonen) writes:
>ps...@kepler.unh.edu (Paul S Secinaro) writes:
>>to it there isn't much to them.  The scenery doesn't vary much.  There
>>aren't many different things you can do (i.e. run, shoot, open doors -
>>that's about it in Wolf 3D.  Where's the plot?).
>
>It's a shoot 'em up for chrissake, it's not supposed to have a plot!
>
>Juice
>jpe...@cs.joensuu.fi

There's been a couple of Id/Apogee guys posting re:wolf3d on GEnie the 
past couple of days.  Here's what they've said about it and other things:

o It's intended as a strictly arcade game.  They don't consider it in any
  way to be a UU competitor.
o The currently distributed shareware version was kept reasonably simple so
  that the total size would be reasonable for doing downloads from BBS's
  (where login times are often restricted).
o The orderable installements will have more sound and bad guy types.
o They are working on a new engine that they *say* is better than the one
  Origin uses for UU.
o They're working on a race car game using fast 3d graphics (can't remeber if
  they said it will use the wolf engine or not).
o I believe they said that they will be putting a modem/network feauture
  into future wolf3d (or maybe a different but similar game) for multiplayer.

That's about all I can remember ...

-edg-
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Subject: Re: Wolfenstien 3D
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