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From: kmellis@spy.org (Keith Ellis)
Newsgroups: alt.games.doom
Subject: Re: Hehee...
Date: 10 Aug 1994 00:29:02 GMT
Organization: Computer Systems Consulting's SPYBBS --> http://www.spy.org/
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Message-ID: <32970e$24t@tierra.santafe.ede>
References: <08091994.040644@mulligan.spk.wa.us>
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Matt Beazer (matt@mulligan.spk.wa.us) wrote:
: Re: are they the same engine?
:
: > Apogee's Blake Stone looks similar as ID's Doom.
: > Are they use the same engine?
: > Thanks
: I kinda laughed about this..the only similar thing to blake stone to DOOM is
: that it's kinda a space theme, and it has monsters. That's pretty much where
: the similarity ends. No, they aren't run on the same engine...it was just
: appogee playing "hey, me too!"...
: Matt
Blake Stone was released one week before DOOM was. It uses a modified
Wolf3D engine - which, of course, was developed by iD. I played Blake for
- you guessed it - one week! Anyway, to be fair to Apogee, it's certainly
not true that they were "copying" DOOM - Blake came before DOOM! However,
I don't think it speaks well of Apogee that they were content to merely
"improve" the Wolf engine, while iD went on from their success to attempt
something prety ambitious: DOOM. Guess which turned out to be the better
market strategy? :) Not only that, but Apogee's disagreement with iD over
add-ons for Wolf seems to have been misguided. I think it's pretty obvious
that iD's approval (and encouragement!) of add-ons has done nothing but
*increase* the visibility of DOOM, and thus, sales.
Supposedly, Apogee has a "better-than-DOOM" DOOM-like game on the way.
But then, so does everybody. By the time everyone catches up to where iD
is now, where we iD be then?
<end of favorable iD ranting and raving>
-Keith
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Keith M Ellis / kmellis@spy.org
"No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a
change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to. No musical innovation
will ever succeed on a large commercial scale without the full
involvement of the industries which profit tangentially from it: clothing
and 'merchandise.'" - Frank Zappa, "The Real Frank Zappa Book" 1989
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