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Metamorphism Quake - Part 4

Kevin — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 11:45:29 GMT

Metamorphism Quake - Part 4

Now that we had a game server up and running on AWS, there were a few remaining bugs to iron out. These caused the game to crash pretty much immediately on connecting to the server.

At this point it looked like I was in the home stretch, but a few showstopper issues remained before we could play the game.

Kevin March 17th, 2021

Metamorphism Quake - Part 3

Kevin — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 19:00:04 GMT

Metamorphism Quake - Part 3

In the second post of this series, I went over reviewing visible bugs in the game and rectifying them enough to where the game can be played. Here, we now need get the game online.

Weekend 2

To this point, I had been loading Quake in Steam and starting a local LAN game just to jump in and see if bugs were being fixed. This works to a point, but what we really need to be doing is trying this on an actual server and connecting with the QuakeWorld client as that is how the game would actually be played.

Kevin February 26th, 2021

Metamorphism Quake - Part 2

Kevin — Sat, 13 Feb 2021 17:00:00 GMT

Metamorphism Quake - Part 2

In the first post of this series, I spoke about reviving a Quake mod from a quarter century ago to see if it can still be played in 2021. Here I discuss some of the bugs and UI tweaks I fixed in my quest to get the game running.

Kevin February 13th, 2021

Metamorphism Quake (Metaquake) - Part 1

Kevin — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 00:00:17 GMT

Metamorphism Quake (Metaquake) - Part 1

In 1996, id Software released a game that forever changed the gaming landscape of both the single player experience and multiplayer experience that still influences games to this very day. With a soundtrack by Nine Inch Nails founder Trent Reznor, a gritty setting and lightning fast playstyle, gamers around the world would come together to frag until the morning hours and make it a rite of passage for anyone looking to play PC games.

That game, was Quake.

Kevin February 7th, 2021