Masters of Doom by Depe

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Masters of Doom:How two guys created an empire and transformed pop

culture

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Agate Studio

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Rise of the gaming world

• 1972: Pong

• 1976: Breakout

• 1980: Pac-man

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Indie Game Publishers

Send you new games each month

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Dangerous Dave in Copyright Infringement

• Making the PC do things only console does

• Tile-based game, parallax

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Shareware Model

• Before internet was a thing, there was shareware

• Games on disks, shipped by zip-lock bags

• Platforms

– Apple ][

– PC (DOS)

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Wolfenstein 3D

• Using texture mapping

• Become an underground sensation

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Doom

• Fast pace shooter

• First game ever to use BSP (Binary Search Partitioning) for 3D rendering

• Multiplayer using dial-up modem!

Gaming Culture, Deathmatch, Mod, Rockstar

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Quake

• Using 3D Character

• Focused on Deathmatch

• Rocket Launcher!

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John Romero: Ion Storm, Daikatana

• Design is Law

• 4 worlds, 24 level

• Companions, dialogues

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John Carmack: Quake 3

• Technology rules

– Long development time

• There are competitors:

– Unreal Tournament by Epic

– Half-life (story based fps) by Valve

Challenges

• How to evolve as a company

• How to be professional

• How to deal with expectation & success

• How to keep your drive and passion

To be continued...