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It’s great, really. The Quake 3 Game is arguably the most widely documented game in history. Countless mods, models, skins, sounds, media, maps, anything, total convertions, derrivatives, engines, master servers, formats such as MD3, PK3, BSP, and many many other things have been innovated by Quake 3. As most of you know, it’s also cross platform, a feature which the Icculus engine expands, making it available on other platforms like SPARC. I use a simple vanilla engine, with bug fixes and a few other things, Justin Thyme’s CleanQ3. It definately isn’t anything like Icculus’ or XreaL, but it has sufficed. There are many engines that have branched out of the Quake 3 vanilla source. I can imagine the following, pretend it’s some type of flash movie/animation.

» Setting: Inside one of those rodeo circles, like this.

» You see a various people inside the ring trying to create their own little horsie by attaching a cotton horse head to a pole, similar to this.

This symbolizes the indie game developers trying to create their own engine, fighting against all odds trying to create their engine, little by little.

» Then the camera goes into the little rooms where the bulls are, the ones next to the ring where they open the doors and they go into the ring, those. Anyways, there’s a huge bull in there anxious to get out. The camera shows a cowboy bring a branding iron into the camera, the brand is blazing hot, you can tell because of it’s dark orange color. The brand says “GPL”, and the cowboy brands the bull, then, a group of strong men release the bull by opening the doors. The bull goes dashing into the ring.

This symbolizes many things. The strong fierce bull is the Quake 3 Engine, the branding of it by the “GPL” branding iron signifies how it was released under the GPL, and the strong men that release the ‘bull’ are the people over at id. The fact that it ‘dashes’ in shows how it comes in out of nowhere, unexpectedly, and will cause huge commotion.

» Once the bull is in, every person within the ring drops their hosie in development and their jaws drop when they look at the bull. Each one quickly runs after it trying to jump on it and ride, hence tame, the bull. Many other bulls of the same brand are released into the ring and every person has his chance to ride it, as this beats their little horsie any day.

This symbolizes a few other things. This shows how everyone in the game developing community were surprised with the release of ‘the bull’, or the Quake 3 Engine, under the GPL. The fact that everyone tries to ride it is how everyone was anxious to get on with development of the engine, they wanted to be involved. The release of other bulls signifies how everyone was able to have ‘their own bull’, or their own shot at ‘taming the Quake 3 engine’.

Anyways, that was just an idea I had haha, but I’ve got no animation skills whatsoever and besides not everyone would understand it other than the people at QuakeDev or QuakeSrc, I just thought it was pretty funny hah.