{"id":398,"date":"2020-02-17T10:08:46","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T15:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/?p=398"},"modified":"2020-02-25T10:47:26","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T15:47:26","slug":"3d-realms-and-epic-games-are-the-same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/2020\/02\/17\/3d-realms-and-epic-games-are-the-same\/","title":{"rendered":"3D Realms and Epic Games are the same"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s interesting that Epic Games and 3D Realms (formerly Apogee) were made by Tim Sweeney and Scott Miller respectively who each started out by making the very similar <acronym title=\"American Standard Code for Information Interchange\">ASCII<\/acronym> <acronym title=\"Disk Operating System\">DOS<\/acronym> games <em>ZZT<\/em> and <em>Kroz<\/em> respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Too bad for 3D Realms that they diverged so much later (mainly thanks to George Broussard&#8217;s unrestrained <acronym title=\"Obsessive Compulsive Disorder - It's the reason that he was unable to get \u201cDuke Nukem Forever\u201d released in time, which killed the company\">OCD<\/acronym>).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_399\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 310px\"><a href=\"\/blogs\/brainbucket\/files\/2020\/02\/Epic-Apogee-Games.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blogs\/brainbucket\/files\/2020\/02\/Epic-Apogee-Games-300x132.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"132\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/files\/2020\/02\/Epic-Apogee-Games-300x132.png 300w, https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/files\/2020\/02\/Epic-Apogee-Games-1024x451.png 1024w, https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/files\/2020\/02\/Epic-Apogee-Games-768x339.png 768w, https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/files\/2020\/02\/Epic-Apogee-Games-1536x677.png 1536w, https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/files\/2020\/02\/Epic-Apogee-Games-2048x903.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">3D Realms\/Apogee and Epic Games started out the same way<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s interesting that Epic Games and 3D Realms (formerly Apogee) were made by Tim Sweeney and Scott Miller respectively who each started out by making the very similar ASCII DOS games ZZT and Kroz respectively. Too bad for 3D Realms that they diverged so much later (mainly thanks to George Broussard&#8217;s unrestrained OCD).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}