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Tag: game-engines

Unreal Engine and UnrealScript: Turning a Game Engine into a Programmable Platform

The first Unreal Engine combined real-time 3D rendering, an integrated editor and UnrealScript, helping transform engine technology from a private game codebase into a licensed and moddable development platform.

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John Carmack, Doom, and the Engineering of Real-Time 3D Worlds

Doom combined constrained world geometry, BSP preprocessing, specialized software rasterization and moddable data files to deliver fast first-person 3D on 1993 PCs.

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