A very advanced build of the original Duke Nukem Forever was recently leaked. Now the infamous 2001 first-person shooter is the subject of a dispute between two former 3D Realms employees, George Broussard and Scott Miller. It’s about the question of which of the two ruined the developer studio at the time.
Where there are people, there are also mud fights – and one of them is being delivered by former 3D Realms employees George Broussard and Scott Miller. The public dispute was triggered by the leak of a well-advanced build of the original Duke Nukem Forever; a user of the 4Chan forum had shown the first-person shooter from 2001 in a video. Scott Miller, who is releasing games under the Apogee label (formerly 3D-Realms) today, reacted in a blog post on the leak. In it, he also detailed the reasons behind the sale of Duke Nukem Forever rights to Gearbox and the demise of the original 3D Realm.
“It’s unbelievable what nonsense Miller spreads”
In his blog post, Miller wrote that while he wasn’t involved with the Duke Nukem Forever project, as a co-owner of the company, he had “a good insight” into the problems that were turning DNF into a money-grab. According to Miller, the studio at the time was at least 50 percent understaffed and there was no good development plan. In addition, with Duke Nukem Forever, you “always had to start over” when switching to new 3D technology. The long journey of the Duke shooter started on the Quake 2 engine.
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Scott Miller did not explicitly blame George Broussard in his text, but the latter was quite obviously the addressee. And Broussard responded – on Twitter: “Scott is a clueless narcissist whose actions led to the Gearbox lawsuits/litigation that resulted in us losing 3DR and the Duke IP. I can’t believe what nonsense he is [Miller] gives. No wonder given his level of manipulation and narcissism. At least I had the class to keep my thoughts to myself.” Broussard described the DNF leak as authentic, but objected: “There’s no real game to play. Just a few sparsely populated test levels. I have no idea who leaked this.“The source code of the 2001 build, along with a level editor, is scheduled to be released in June.
Source: via PC gamers
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