r/aiwars • u/Kamsimation • 10h ago

Is This Really The Future You Want?

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This is what happens when there's no regulation

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u/ifandbut 9h ago

If it wasn't for DOOM clones we wouldn't have modern FPS.

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u/tenmileswide 3h ago

If there's someone to thank following Doom it should be Quake and Half-Life, not Doom clones

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u/Dodo_Baron 9h ago

Yes but those took awhile after doom broke the market.

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u/Opening_Wind_1077 9h ago

It took about a month for the first doom clones Hit the market, especially in the early days copying styles and game concepts was extremely common.

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u/Dodo_Baron 8h ago

You mean blakestone? It was in development before doom released and used the Wolfenstein 3d engine. Which released the year before

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u/Opening_Wind_1077 8h ago

I mean operation body count and corridor 7.

Arguably Doom itself is just a refined clone of Wolfenstein 3D, having an engine that can fake verticality is not what makes Doom, game feel and the oppressive atmosphere contribute quite a bit and have “inspired” a lot of games.

The point is, borrowing or even outright stealing ideas is hardly a new thing in game development or any other human endeavour. If it’s good people will copy it as fast as they can.

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u/Dodo_Baron 8h ago

Both of those were Wolfenstein 3d clones, they weren't doom clones. Because of that they took a year to release after Wolfenstein 3d

And no doom had a lot of technical advances over Wolfenstein. Eitherway it still took a year after Wolfenstein to clone it.

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u/ifandbut 6h ago

Doesn't matter. Still clones iterating on the idea.

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u/Dodo_Baron 6h ago

I'm not arguing iterating on the idea is bad lol