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Quake Live John Carmack interview
Gamespy has an interview with mighty John Carmack about the imminent release of Quake Live, the free, ad supported, web browser playable update to Quake 3 Arena.
"GameSpy: It's been a while since we last talked about Quake Live; can you give us a quick overview of the game and where it's at now?
John Carmack: What we've done is taken the Quake III Arena
game that we released nine years ago, but still has tens of thousands
of people playing online on a regular basis, we've taken the core of
the game, stripped out all the antiquated user interface stuff, and
wrapped it in a web browser interface, so that all the things you used
to do with configuration, and especially finding a game to play and
dealing with updates, are all handled by a modern web interface.
The game itself, once you get inside it, is not drastically changed
from the original, although it's been brought up to a modern level of
quality without changing the core rendering engine in any particular
way. But what you do is, you go to the website, it's just a couple of
clicks, it automatically happens, it brings the game down, you don't
have to go off and install anything, update any drivers, this kind of
stuff, you click on it, just like you would a Java or Flash game, but
it is actually a full native game that was state-of-the-art AAA when it
was released with a full development team going at it rather than a
more amateur small-time development system on there.[...]"
Oh and in case you did not register yet for the beta-test, you can do so NOW.
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