Re: They're Making a Doom Driving Game!

On Sat, 22 Jun 2024 21:55:48 -0000 (UTC), George Musk
<grgmusk@skiff.com> wrote:

On Sat, 22 Jun 2024 15:41:05 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
>

Well, not really. There /is/ a game being developed that will be using
the Doom engine, and -based solely on its proposed title, "Motor"- it

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Something like https://www.moddb.com/mods/quake-rally ?

Probably not, but who knows. After all, the only information available
is that it's a trademark for a product called MOTOR - POWERED BY
IDTECH", it has something to do with entertainment software, and its
owned by ZeniMax Media.

In truth, it may not even be a game. Id/Bethesda/Zenimax/Microsoft may
just be packaging IdTech as a development engine (hence, 'motor') to
be licensed to others, or even used internally.

But a lack of facts shouldn't stop rampant speculation, so everybody
go wild! ;-)


BTW, hats off to remembering "Quake Rally". I had a lot of fun with
that mod back in the day. I recall being quite impressed that the
Quake engine could be modified so it became a racing game. These days
that achievement seems a lot less significant but back then engines
were often incredibly tailored to a specific task, and modifying them
to do anything else was an extremely inefficient use of resources.

Like, sure, maybe you COULD get turn the engine behind "Super Mario
Brothers 2" into a first-person shooter, but you'd have to do so much
of a rewrite that you'd have been better off just starting from
scratch (the end result would probably run better too).

But QuakeC was such a powerful scripting language that all sorts of
mad projects were possible, even by amateur programmers. It led the
way for Unreal Engine, Lithtech, Unity, and even RoBlox. And
"QuakeRally" was an early indicator of the engine's potential.