Stumbling through the 3D Realms Anthology - 1993

[davidn]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wykPn7IquRU

Continuing my journey through the 3D Realms/Apogee back catalogue, 1993 was the year when things transitioned from EGA to VGA, and a number of new and interesting ideas were tried out across their releases. Because of this, at last I've got a reasonable length of video out of a week's work.

Comments

[tamakun.livejournal.com]

Christine and I sat down to watch this one. While she isn't that interested in games, she did enjoy the dialogue throughout -- and holy crap, you're on-par with Yahtzee on the amount of dialogue you cram into these videos!

I do like that you have some technical knowledge explained through these videos as well -- it gives a wide range of information which I suck up like a sponge. I wasn't even aware of the grid-based handling that you've mentioned, and I'm glad we moved beyond that.

[davidn]

Thank you, it's great to know that I can capture the interest of someone who isn't all that familiar with this stuff :) As you know, I find the whole thing fascinating and hope to explain it to people in a way that's accessible...

When reading from a script I speak too fast for my own good - I've actually tried to slow myself down because these take so many takes to get right, but it always creeps back up again!