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PC News by Tom Bramwell

3 August, 2007

id Software has set up a second development team - and its first project is likely to raise some eyebrows.

That group has begun by working on a web-browser-based version of the developer's popular Quake 3 Arena first-person shooter, Quake Zero, which will be funded by advertising.

"We're eventually going to grow this to the point where we'll have a second team of 20 to 30 people," John Carmack said during his keynote address.

The eventual ambition will be for the team to develop a fuller, id Tech 5-based Quake Arena game.

Carmack admitted Quake Zero was experimental. "It may work, it may not," he told the audience. "[But] I think there's at least the possibility that we could see millions of people play this."

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xandoodle
03/08/07 @ 23:41
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Please. Not. Flash.
James173
03/08/07 @ 23:52
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Sounds like a good college distraction to me
Tomo
04/08/07 @ 00:01
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Should've been Quake 2 :/
Lim-Dul
04/08/07 @ 01:03
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Mmmhhh! Quake 2! My teenage-Quake 2-tournament days... I was really good with the railgun. :-D Helped me a lot in other games - e.g. Day of Defeat where the German rifle is basically like a railgun. ^^
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04/08/07 @ 09:40
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Now that's one hell of an interesting side project. The flash/browser games lately got better and better. A very good example for a quality browser game is Bible Fight...really cool SF2 clone which is probably Jack Thompsons favourite game right now;-)

http://www.adultswim.com/games/biblefight/

Hopefully, Quake zero results in one kick ass free FPS that can also be moded:-)
jack_klugman
04/08/07 @ 11:02
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Not an impossibility when you consider games like Phosphor.

http://www1.rasterwerks.com/game/phospho...
Skeletor
04/08/07 @ 11:38
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Did he really say browser-based? IGN.com reports only that it will be a free download and the aim is to make an extremely responsive (read: e-sports...) game that should have rather moderate system requirements. Not a word that it's gonna be browser based. My guess is that it'll be a standard game connected to different web sites (Quake community fansites and ads for financing) which means that reporting it as "browser-based" is a tiny bit misleading...
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+bind q grapple
jack_klugman
04/08/07 @ 13:36
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impulse 8
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04/08/07 @ 15:37
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Sounds fairly uninteresting.
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04/08/07 @ 21:46
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Huh? 0_o
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Is this just Quake with artificial sweeteners?

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