QuakeCon Announcement

Doom III Special @ Ownt

http://www.ownt.com/specials/2003/doom3/doom3.shtm

Doom 3 is not expected out until the fall.

Carmack will demo a much more advanced version of Doom 3 at this year's
Quakecon, than that of what was seen at last years E3.

Carmack states that real-time rendering will be so dynamic that animators
will be able to produce films using game engines. Much like Fountainhead
Entertainment's T.V. Series Sidrial, which uses a heavily modified Quake 3
engine.

An example of a scare tactic is given as you are creeping past a room with
a zombie chowing down on some scientist brains, an Imp crashing through the
grated floor below and starting to launch fireballs.

There's talk about real-time lighting algorithms to render, shadow casting
on a monsters skin and even a fluorescent light reflecting off the teeth of
the chain saw.

Mention was made of Carmack creating an algorithm to reduce a 500,000
polygon character down to 2,000 polygons for the Level of Detail setting
when the same character is viewed at a distance.

Carmack says, Doom 3 won't be his last game engine, but don't expect a new
engine every few years like before.

There you have it.

Anyone know if there's any cheap hotels within walking distance?

I just stayed at this place. It's friggin HUGE.

I would love to go (to see Shackers and GenArena people) but I'll probably be working at a summer internship or broke so maybe I'll do it next year (I said that last year). I do fully intend to go to a QuakeCon someday (I've never been to a Lanparty actually, not many to be found in WV).

Hmm...probably won't be going to QCon this year because of the move. Driving downtown just doesn't sound like that much fun.

Isn't this location really close to Deep Ellum? I suspect outings happening during the big show.

Steve, you getting us a shack section this time around? Last year rocked having our own section of quakecon... we were the envy of the event!

I'd love to attend. But the Dixie Chicks told me to ph34r Texas.

ShackCon.

I'mm so there. We need to do a huge ShackMeet at a Hooters or something and impress all the girls with our knowledge of videogame lore - `cause we all know what makes the ladies wet. :)

I wonder why the change of venue? Does the Adams Mark have more space (and hopefully, parking?)

So what you're saying is that Quake 2 shipped with multiplayer code... just no maps to play on? To me... that's shipping without multiplayer.

Also, I think it's probably a little too early to be showing off Quake 4. I suspect very highly that they won't do that until after Doom 3 has shipped.

You know, JC said last Quakecon that "id doesn't want to be one of those companies that shows off the same game every year at E3" Well, if you want to read something into that, you might think that id meant to release doom 3 before E3 this year, but E3 draws near, and no whispers of a public beta, or a tech demo, or whatever they call it, so it's probably safe to assume that either that's not what JC meant, or that their date has slipped a bit. Best Buy, I believe, has started taking preorders for Doom 3, but their shelf date isn't till sometime in November, which is probably realistic, considering id's predilection for releasing things just in time for the Xmas season (I cite Quake 2 that shipped without multiplayer of any kind in order to hit the Xmas market as proof of this)

Now there was about a 2-3 month lag between Quake 3’s tech demo release and it actually hitting the shelves… and what comes 3 months after August, when Quakecon is being held? November. Hmm.

<hopefulSpeculation> So what I’m thinking that the coolest thing in the world that id could do is to release the tech demo for Doom 3 AT Quakecon, make it an exclusive release at the convention, which would of course make Quakecon THE LAN party to go to this year. It would be a huge boost for Quakecon, and it wouldn’t really be dissing the community at large, cause it would only mean a 2-3 day delay getting out to the general internet. Probably less than that as someone would undoubtedly burn that sukka to CD and take it home and upload it. Anyway, since I plan on being at Quakecon, I hope they do something like this. :) </hopefulSpeculation>

Thank god it moved. Mesquite blows ass.

doom...III...and...quake...4...hurry...up...before...dea -=metalzombie drops on floor dead=-

must.....play........quake 4!!!!

doom... III...

id rules for this!