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  • Ioquake3-Derived Spearmint 1.0 Engine Coming Next Month, But Ceasing Development

    Phoronix: Ioquake3-Derived Spearmint 1.0 Engine Coming Next Month, But Ceasing Development

    Spearmint, an enhanced version of the open-source ioquake3 engine in turn derived from the id Tech 3 source code, will see the big "1.0" milestone in October. But that will also coincide with the developer and ioquake3 maintainer ceasing work on this engine now with an eighteen year lineage...

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    This is one project I have really enjoyed over the years. I still regularly have Q3A tournaments with my fellow colleagues.
    Its just nice to know that whatever platform you use, you can all pretty much play this game (whether you are good at it or not is a different story

    And its weird, I still see the game as good looking and "AAA". After all, it is still quite resource intensive and the majority of tablets and things will still struggle to play it smoothly.
    Last edited by kpedersen; 19 September 2018, 02:18 PM.

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