Author: Mr. Nuclear Monster
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7dfps Game Jam Running From December 8 to 16
Want to try making your first first person shooter? Maybe you’ve made a few already. The 7dfps (7 Day FPS) challenge is running from December 8th 2023 to the 16th on itch.io. The 7dfps challenge is a great opportunity to get started using ioquake3 to make your FPS. 7dfps has their own Discord server for…
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Thank you, Digital Ocean!
For a few years now ioquake3 has been proudly sponsored by Digital Ocean. We’re proud to renew this sponsorship again and wanted to thank the generous and fine people at Digital Ocean for doing so. Digital Ocean supplies projects, companies, and people with excellent cloud hosting services from fully managed hosting, app platforms, databases, and…
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Legacy and M1 macOS ioquake3 support
macOS now has two kinds of Universal Binaries. The first were from the mid-2000’s when Apple started their transition from the PowerPC platform to Intel. The second are for Apple’s transition from Intel’s 64bit x86 platform to Apple’s in-house ARM-based Apple Silicon processors. If you visit our Downloads page you will now find two new kinds of test builds…
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ioquake3 IRC moved to Libera
The freenode situation is a little complicated, but we moved our IRC presence to the new Libera.chat systems a few days ago due to those events. Today the new owners of freenode responded by removing our control of the #ioquake3 and #iodoom3 channels which makes it pretty clear that sticking with Freenode would have been…
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Test Builds Available Again
Head over to the downloads page to download a test build of ioquake3. The test builds are very bare-bones but can be extracted over a regular installation of Quake 3: Arena’s data files and then launch the ioquake3 executable to use our updated software instead of id’s executable from 2005. You may see warnings from…
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Wiki content moving to website
Just a quick note to say that some content from our wiki is now available on our website. For example the Player’s Guide, SysAdmin Guide, and Get Involved. More is on the way.
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ioquake3 git branch renamed to “main”
This is the bare minimum of work to dismantle white supremacy. If you’re in the United States, please donate to a bail fund, join BLM, help organize your community against the white supremacist state, join your local Tenants Union, and join Food not Bombs around the world. If you compile your own ioquake3 from git…
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A New ioquake3.org
Way back in the middle of 2019 the ioquake3 project ran into a security issue, 2020 was an almost complete tire fire and 2021 is… not great! Still, we are finally digging our way out of that mess and moving on. Some things are broken today, but the meta server remains operational and you can…
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ioquake3 Security Notice 06/13/19: Test Builds Possibly Compromised
Update May 20, 2021: Test builds are available again See this news item for the update or continue reading to see the original news post from 2019. Summary: As an initial notice, I want to warn ioquake3 players and server operators that precompiled test builds downloaded from our website may have been compromised. Please do…