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		kanwisher on Aug 11, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Source code for Quake 2 rerelease Descent was closer to DOOM tech, not fully 3d but kind of a 2.5d . Quake was one of first true 3d games

_flux on Aug 11, 2023 [–]

What was 2.5d about it? I mean the rooms needed to be convex IIRC and it had sort of a teleport thing going on, but it was basically all 3d, right?

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