Mr. Nuclear Monster

Lamp, Sand, and ShackQuake Live

Apr 8, 2008

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One of my favorite gaming communities has always been the Shacker community. Recently their “Visceral Monkey” started the “ShackQuakeLive” site for playing quake3 and related mods, go check it out and then join their server to kick some shacker asses. Their server is even set up for http downloading, one of my favorite ioquake3 features.…

Raytracing ioquake3

Mar 4, 2008

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Mr. Nuclear Monster

in ioquake3

Stephan Reiter wrote into the mailing list with this amazing news (both videos are embedded after the break): Hi everyone! I’ve been working on a raytracing library during the last few months. Last week I was able to integrate it into the ioquake3 source code. This allows for switching between traditional rasterization and raytracing using…

About Compiling For Mac OS X

Jan 3, 2008

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Mr. Nuclear Monster

in ioquake3

We have done quite a bit of work towards unraveling mysteries presented by the recent Xcode (2.5 and 3.0) and Mac OS X (10.5) releases. Here is the rundown of the current state of things. If you want maximum compatibility in the Universal Binary you create, your build system needs to meet the following criteria:…

Comparison of free software shooters

Jan 3, 2008

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Mr. Nuclear Monster

in derivative games, ioquake3

Several ioquake3 based games were compared recently over at Linux-Gamers.net. The article should be useful for non-linux gamers as well, due to the multi-platform nature of all the games mentioned within.

Slackware support

Dec 30, 2007

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Mr. Nuclear Monster

in ioquake3, patches

I just committed a patch to SVN from Hobbes for Slackware SlackBuild support, thank you Hobbes!

Urban Terror 4.1

Dec 23, 2007

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Mr. Nuclear Monster

in derivative games

The Urban Terror team have released version 4.1 of their stand-alone game based on ioquake3! Go get it!

Mac OS X 10.5 Support

Dec 14, 2007

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Mr. Nuclear Monster

in ioquake3

With the World of Padman patch, Thilo has also updated ioquake3 SVN to compile on Mac OS X 10.5! Revision 1238 also adds dedicated server support for OS X.

World of Padman 1.2

Dec 6, 2007

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Mr. Nuclear Monster

in derivative games

The World of Padman team have released version 1.2 of their stand-alone game using the ioquake3 engine. Head over to their site to check it out for Windows and Linux, a Mac version is forthcoming.