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The craziest thing about Quake is how many modern FPS games originate from it somehow
Valve's Source engine was a modified Quake 1 engine which spawned Half Life, Counter Strike, DOTA, Apex Legends, Titanfall
The entire Call of Duty and Warzone series originates from a modified Quake 3 engine that's continously iterated since!
John Carmack@ID_AA_Carmack· Jun 24, 2026There are a few things that I look back on as my mistakes in the early days.
Quake was overly ambitious technically. We could have done all the great multiplayer and modding work inside a Doom++ engine, allowing the designers to work with a more stable base instead of
06:31 PM · June 24, 2026 · 444.3K views
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