TIME does a piece on doom

[Force Flow]

Interesting article if you get a chance to read it.

It was the janitor who showed John Carmack that the world had changed. In 1993 Carmack was working on a new kind of video game for a tiny company called id Software. He had written games before, but nobody except computer geeks had cared much about them. "I remember showing some people games that I liked on the Apple II," Carmack remembers, "and just having them sit there, completely not comprehending what could be enjoyable about moving these little guys around. People just did not get it." But this game was different. "We noticed that the janitor coming in to empty the trash had just been sitting there staring at the game -- for a long time," he says. "The game had this power: it could affect normal people." ... As radical as it was 11 years ago, Doom looks pathetically crude compared with Carmack's new brainchild. A first glance at a computer screen running Doom 3 is confusing to the eye: the illusion the game creates is so realistic. The secret? Light. Carmack has spent the past four years painstakingly studying optics, and he has figured out how to make photons bounce around in a virtual space in much the same way that they do in the real world. Suddenly, pebbly surfaces cast pebbly shadows. Air ripples from the heat of a broken steam pipe. There is a crispness to details, a weight and solidity to objects and figures, a lifelike sheen to surfaces in Doom 3 that is unlike anything we've seen before. ... As virtual worlds go, Doom 3 is big. To play through it just once, never mind multiplayer matches and replay time, takes upwards of 30 hours. (Take that, Peter Jackson!) Despite its size, it is meticulously detailed.

30 hours, eh? Guess I have 27 left to go

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar...674778,00.html

[Propain]

25 to go . should be done by weekend

[Doobie]

Originally Posted by Propain 25 to go . should be done by weekend

and I cant free myself up to play more then 5 mins. at a time.

[Propain]

Originally Posted by Doobie and I cant free myself up to play more then 5 mins. at a time.

I just drove my wife (and kids) to her moms. shes there till sunday nyah nyah na nyah nyah

[fudtone]

Wish I owned it. Won't hack it. Have fun guys.