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Encyclopedia > 3D Realms
3D Realms
Corporate logo of 3D Realms
Type Private
Founded 1987
Headquarters Garland, Texas, United States
Key people Scott Miller
George Broussard
Industry Interactive entertainment
Website www.3drealms.com

3D Realms is the name of a computer game publisher and developer based in Garland, Texas. Established as Apogee Software, Ltd. in 1987, it is best known for popularizing the shareware distribution model and as the creator of franchises on the PC such as Duke Nukem, and also the publisher of other franchises such as Commander Keen and Wolfenstein 3D. The name 3D Realms was initially created as a branding label in July 1994 for use by Apogee which would be dedicated to just 3D games (as Apogee was then known for several styles of games). However, shortly after this, 3D games started to dominate the industry, and Apogee decided to direct their focus on this style of game, and as such, the Apogee name was eventually abandoned as a public marketing name in late 1996. While almost everyone refers to the name of the company as '3D Realms', the legal name of the company is still to this day, Apogee Software, Ltd.[citation needed] Image File history File links Not GFDL. Corporate logo of 3D Realms Entertainment. ... A private company is a company that is independently owned. ... 1987 1987 in games 1986 in video gaming 1988 in video gaming Notable events of 1987 in video gaming. ... Garland is a suburb of Dallas, Texas, in Dallas County, Texas, USA. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 215,768. ... Scott Miller is an entrepreneur and former game programmer. ... George Broussard is a computer game producer and designer known in the PC game community as one of the two creators of the widely successful Duke Nukem series (Todd Replogle being the other). ... Pac-Man is one of the most recognizable video games ever created. ... A website (or Web site) is a collection of web pages, typically common to a particular domain name or subdomain on the World Wide Web on the Internet. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Garland is a suburb of Dallas, Texas, in Dallas County, Texas, USA. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 215,768. ... Look up shareware in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Macs like the iMac Core Duo are also personal computers. Unlike many PCs, the iMac is an all in one with all its components, including processor and speakers, in one case. ... Duke Nukem is a platform video game developed and published by Apogee Software, featuring the adventures of Duke Nukem. ... Yorp redirects here. ... Wolfenstein 3D (commonly abbreviated to Wolf 3D) is the computer game that started the first person shooter genre on the PC. It was created by id Software and published by Apogee Software on May 5, 1992. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Corporate logo of Apogee Software Apogee Software, Ltd. ...

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Background

Apogee started in 1987 with the release of Scott Miller's Kingdom of Kroz, which used crude extended ASCII characters as graphics. Nevertheless, the game sold quite well and Apogee was born. In 1991 George Broussard joined the company as co-owner, bringing with him several games of his that were previously released under the name Micro F/X. Miller and Broussard run the company to this day. Scott Miller is an entrepreneur and former game programmer. ... Kingdom of Kroz is a video game created by Scott Miller in 1987 as Apogee Softwares first game. ... The term extended ASCII (or high ASCII) describes eight-bit or larger character encodings that include the standard seven-bit ASCII characters as well as others. ... George Broussard is a computer game producer and designer known in the PC game community as one of the two creators of the widely successful Duke Nukem series (Todd Replogle being the other). ...


Apogee published games by other developers in addition to its own in-house titles. One of these developers, id Software, contributed to Apogee's success with games such as Commander Keen and Wolfenstein 3D, but later severed their ties with Apogee with their release of Doom in 1993 (although in its earliest stages, Doom was still an Apogee title). A video game developer is a software developer (a business or an individual) that creates computer or video games. ... id Software (IPA: officially, though commonly mispronounced /ay di: soft. ... Yorp redirects here. ... Wolfenstein 3D (commonly abbreviated to Wolf 3D) is the computer game that started the first person shooter genre on the PC. It was created by id Software and published by Apogee Software on May 5, 1992. ... Doom (or DOOM)[1] is a 1993 computer game by id Software that is among the landmark titles in the first-person shooter genre. ...


Shareware and the Apogee Model

Unlike traditional larger publishers that sold games in retail outlets, Apogee (like many independent developers) sold their products using the shareware method, depending mostly on BBSs, such as Software Creations', for distribution of their software. Интерестные знакомстав! Заходим и знакомимся! <a href=http://poiu. ... Company logo. ...


Initial Apogee games (Beyond the Titanic and Supernova) were distributed as traditional shareware; that is, giving away the full game for free, and asking the customer to pay for it if he/she liked it. Upon registering, the customer would be able to receive support and help for the game. However, this marketing model did not prove to be profitable enough, so Apogee decided to implement a variation on the shareware model. Starting with Kingdom of Kroz, Apogee would provide the first installment of a game composed of several episodes (usually three) for free (as shareware), and sell the remaining installments by mail order. Registering the first episode would also enable the customer to receive support for that game, as well as giving them cheat codes for it. This method became known as the Apogee Model. Initially, each episode of a game was sold separately, with discounts for buying all the episodes together. Later games did not offer the option to buy a specific episode; the customer could play the shareware version (first episode) for free, and buy the full registered version (all episodes) if they liked the game. Beyond the Titanic is a text adventure game written by Scott Miller for MS-DOS, published by Apogee Software (now 3D Realms). ... Multiwavelength X-ray image of the remnant of Keplers Supernova, SN 1604. ... Kingdom of Kroz is a video game created by Scott Miller in 1987 as Apogee Softwares first game. ... Mail order is a term which describes the buying of goods or services by mail delivery. ...


Apogee's commercial success led to the widespread adoption of the shareware model (and most of the time, the specific Apogee Model) by other major publishers such as Capstone, Parallax Software, id Software, Activision, and Epic Megagames, and also led to a growth of Software Creations BBS, which would become the largest BBS in North America. Apogee later moved to the traditional retail model through distributors like GT Interactive; however, it still offers its earlier titles via shareware. Capstone Software is a Florida based video game subsidery of IntraCorp. ... Parallax Software is the Midwest game developer who created the Descent [1] series. ... id Software (IPA: officially, though commonly mispronounced /ay di: soft. ... Activision, Inc. ... Epic Games, also known as Epic and formerly as Epic MegaGames, is a computer game development company based in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. ... World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America. ... GT Interactive was a video game developer founded in 1993 and headquartered in New York City. ...


Apogee to 3D Realms

Original corporate logo for Apogee Software
Original corporate logo for Apogee Software

With the original intent to create a division for every genre of game Apogee produced, the two brand names 3D Realms (formed in July 1994) and the now disused Pinball Wizards were created. Instead of publishing every game under Apogee as it had been in the past, the goal of this strategy was to create a different brand for each type of game genre, making each new game identifiable based on which brand it belonged to. This would enable Apogee to target different markets. Not GFDL. Corporate logo of Apogee Software, Ltd. ... Wikibooks has more about this subject: Marketing A brand is a collection of images and ideas representing an economic producer; more specifically, it refers to the concrete symbols such as a name, logo, slogan, and design scheme. ...


However, many of those varied genres such as platform or scrolling shooter (that were much of Apogee's early releases) were slowly dying out in the late 1990s making this strategy unnecessary in the end. In addition, due to the increasingly lengthy development time in producing a game title, video game publishers were no longer releasing titles at the rapid rate at which they once were. 3D Realms was created in 1994 for the 3-D title Terminal Velocity and is responsible for the latest installments of the successful Duke Nukem and for producing the Max Payne series (earlier 3D games like Rise of the Triad were released under the Apogee name). The Pinball Wizards name was created for the 1998 pinball title Balls of Steel but has not been used since. Platform game, or platformer, is a video game genre characterized by jumping to and from suspended platforms. ... Scrolling shooters are a type of video game, a subgenre of shoot em up . ... A 3D rendering with raytracing and ambient occlusion using Blender and Yafray 3D computer graphics are works of graphic art that were created with the aid of digital computers and specialized 3D software. ... In-game screenshot of Terminal Velocity Terminal Velocity was a renowned video game during the mid-1990s, developed by Terminal Reality and published by 3D Realms in 1995. ... Max Payne is a third-person shooter computer game developed by the Finnish company Remedy Entertainment, produced by 3D Realms and published by Gathering of Developers in July, 2001. ... Rise of the Triad: Dark War (shortened to RotT) is a first person shooter computer game, first released on December 21, 1994 by Apogee Software (later known as 3D Realms). ... Pinball is a type of coin-operated arcade game where a player attempts to score points by manipulating one or more metal balls on a playfield inside a glass covered case. ... Balls of Steel is a pinball computer game developed by Wildfire Studios and published by Pinball Wizards (a division of Apogee Software, better known as 3D Realms), released on December 12, 1997. ...


The last game to be published under the Apogee name was Stargunner in 1996. Since 1998, all the company's games have been using a 3D engine (even if the gameplay is 2D, like in Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project), and as a result 3D Realms has in effect replaced Apogee as the brand name to publish games under. Also, by the end of the 1990s, Apogee felt their brand name was more associated with old, outdated games and so adopted their 3D Realms brand for all future releases. Stargunner is a side-scrolling shooter computer game developed by Apogee Software. ...


Current state and products

As 3D Realms, the company is best known for creating the Build engine computer games Duke Nukem 3D and Shadow Warrior. When the 3D Realms name was first conceived, the official motto was Reality is our Game. That motto has long since fallen out of favor with no official replacement offered. Looking down in the Duke Nukem 3D level Raw Meat, notice the lines of the walls are perfectly vertical. ... This article needs a complete rewrite for the reasons listed on the talk page. ... Duke Nukem 3D is a first-person shooter developed by 3D Realms and released on January 29, 1996 by Apogee Software, featuring the adventures of Duke Nukem, based on a character that had appeared in earlier platform games by the company: Duke Nukem and Duke Nukem II. // This calendar implies... Shadow Warrior is a first-person shooter computer game featuring Lo Wang, a master ninja assassin or Shadow Warrior, developed by 3D Realms and released on May 13, 1997 by GT Interactive. ...


3D Realms is now semi-notorious for its upcoming installment in the Duke Nukem series, Duke Nukem Forever, which as of 2006 is currently 9 years into development (full scale production started late in 1997). The game will be released, according to the company, "when it's done." The 3D Realms development team was apparently understaffed during the first decade of development, but is now picking up speed on the project. As a result of Duke Nukem Forever's long development cycle, 3D Realms has incurred some negative fan feedback. Duke Nukem in the title screen of Duke Nukem 3D Duke Nukem is an action hero created by computer game developer 3D Realms/Apogee Software. ... Duke Nukem Forever (DNF) is a yet-to-be-released first-person shooter video game being developed by 3D Realms, and is the next game in the popular Duke Nukem series. ... 2006 (MMVI), a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


However, there have several Duke Nukem games released since Duke Nukem 3D, created by outside developers and released on home consoles and cell phones. They also stopped unauthorized third parties from using their famous trademarked characters in modifications for other games. 2004 Banshee car modification for Grand Theft Auto: Vice City - replacement of original Banshee. ... It has been suggested that Multiplayer game be merged into this article or section. ...


The most recent successes they were associated with was Prey, a game released July 11th 2006 after being stuck in development hell for years, as well as Max Payne sequel, Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, which followed on from the 3D Realms produced original. Prey is an as of yet unreleased video game being developed by Human Head Studios and produced by 3D Realms, using a modified version of the Doom 3 engine. ... This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. ... Max Payne is a third-person shooter computer game developed by the Finnish company Remedy Entertainment, produced by 3D Realms and published by Gathering of Developers in July, 2001. ... Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne is a third-person shooter developed by Remedy Entertainment for the PC, Xbox, and PlayStation 2 systems. ...


3D Realms has also been the first company to publicly state they will not support the Wii. In a blog post, Scott Miller stated that he believed the system would be a "distant third" behind the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, and that the system would be Nintendo's last.[1]. Notable, though, is the fact that the relationship between Nintendo and 3D Realms has never been strong. This may be because Nintendo heavily censored and stripped down the Nintendo 64 version of Duke Nukem 3D, as well as poor sales of the Gameboy Advance titles Max Payne and Duke Nukem Advance. The Wii (pronounced as the pronoun we, IPA: ) is Nintendos seventh-generation video game console. ... Duke Nukem 3D is a first-person shooter developed by 3D Realms and released on January 29, 1996 by Apogee Software, featuring the adventures of Duke Nukem, based on a character that had appeared in earlier platform games by the company: Duke Nukem and Duke Nukem II. // This calendar implies...


Games published as Apogee Software

Developer

Beyond the Titanic is a text adventure game written by Scott Miller for MS-DOS, published by Apogee Software (now 3D Realms). ... Kingdom of Kroz is a video game created by Scott Miller in 1987 as Apogee Softwares first game. ... Supernova is a text adventure game written by Scott Miller for MS-DOS, published by Apogee Software (now 3D Realms). ... Trek Trivia is a trivia game about the Star Trek TV series, written in Turbo Pascal 5. ... Word Whiz is a trivia game written for MS-DOS, published by Apogee Software (now 3D Realms). ... Arctic Adventure is a platform game written for MS-DOS, published by Apogee Software (now 3D Realms). ... Crystal Caves is a video game written and published by Apogee Software. ... Duke Nukem is a platform video game developed and published by Apogee Software, featuring the adventures of Duke Nukem. ... Cosmos Cosmic Adventure is a video game programmed by Todd Replogle and published by Apogee Software in 1992. ... Secret Agent is a video game written and published by Apogee Software. ... Bio Menace is a 2D, side-scrolling, platform game both developed and published by Apogee Software in 1993 for MS-DOS. It was built on a licensed version of id Softwares Commander Keen game engine, and was known as Bio Hazard during production. ... Duke Nukem II is an MS-DOS platform game developed by Apogee Software and released December 3, 1993. ... Major Stryker is a 2D vertical scrolling shooter game written for MS-DOS, by Apogee Software (now 3D Realms). ... Monster Bash is a video game created by Apogee Software and released on the 9th of April, 1993 for the PC. The first episode of the game is available to download as shareware, but the remaining parts of the game must be purchased from 3D Realms. ... Rise of the Triad: Dark War (shortened to RotT) is a first person shooter computer game, first released on December 21, 1994 by Apogee Software (later known as 3D Realms). ... Realms of Chaos is a platform game written for MS-DOS, published by Apogee Software (now 3D Realms). ... Stargunner is a side-scrolling shooter computer game developed by Apogee Software. ...

Publisher/Producer

Trivia Whiz is a general trivia game written for MS-DOS, published by Apogee Software (now 3D Realms). ... The Thor Trilogy (also known as Caves of Thor) is a maze video game created by published in 1989 by Apogee Software (now 3D Realms). ... Pharaohs Tomb is a platform game written for MS-DOS, published by Apogee Software (now 3D Realms). ... Monuments of Mars is a third-person adventure/puzzle game created by Apogee Software. ... Yorp redirects here. ... id Software (IPA: officially, though commonly mispronounced /ay di: soft. ... Dark Ages is a platform game written for MS-DOS, published by Apogee Software (now 3D Realms). ... Yorp redirects here. ... id Software (IPA: officially, though commonly mispronounced /ay di: soft. ... Paganitzu is a computer game created by Keith Schuler. ... Screenshot from the Commodore 64 version of Jumpman Jumpman is an early platform game with 30 levels, written by Randy Glover and released by Epyx in 1983. ... Wolfenstein 3D (commonly abbreviated to Wolf 3D) is the computer game that started the first person shooter genre on the PC. It was created by id Software and published by Apogee Software on May 5, 1992. ... id Software (IPA: officially, though commonly mispronounced /ay di: soft. ... Word Rescue is an educational platform game released by Apogee Software in 1992. ... Math Rescue is an educational platform game released by Apogee Software (now 3D Realms) in October, 1992. ... Alien Carnage, also known as Halloween Harry, is a side-scrolling platform game written by SubZero Software and distributed by Apogee Software. ... Boppin is a puzzle game developed by Accursed Toys, originally published for the Amiga by KarmaSoft. ... Accursed Toys is a computer game development company, founded by Stephen P. Lepisto and Jennifer Diane Reitz. ... Hocus Pocus is a side-scrolling platform video game developed by Moonlite Software and published by Apogee Software in 1994 for MS-DOS. It is a 256 color VGA game featuring 360 degree scrolling and parallaxing backgrounds. ... Mystic Towers is a computer game created by Lindsay Whipp and Animation F/X and published by Apogee Software. ... Company logo. ... Wacky Wheels is an MS-DOS arcade lawn mower racing videogame released by Apogee Software in 1994. ... Death Rally cover Death Rally is a 1996 top-down racing video game developed by Remedy, published by Apogee and distributed by GT Interactive. ... Remedy Entertainment is a Finnish computer game developer founded in 1995 based in Espoo, Finland. ... Balls of Steel is a pinball computer game developed by Wildfire Studios and published by Pinball Wizards (a division of Apogee Software, better known as 3D Realms), released on December 12, 1997. ... Wildfire Studios is a video game developer that was established in 1995. ...

Games published as 3D Realms

Developer

1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Duke Nukem 3D is a first-person shooter developed by 3D Realms and released on January 29, 1996 by Apogee Software, featuring the adventures of Duke Nukem, based on a character that had appeared in earlier platform games by the company: Duke Nukem and Duke Nukem II. // This calendar implies... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Shadow Warrior is a first-person shooter computer game featuring Lo Wang, a master ninja assassin or Shadow Warrior, developed by 3D Realms and released on May 13, 1997 by GT Interactive. ... Duke Nukem Forever (DNF) is a yet-to-be-released first-person shooter video game being developed by 3D Realms, and is the next game in the popular Duke Nukem series. ...

Publisher/Producer

1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... In-game screenshot of Terminal Velocity Terminal Velocity was a renowned video game during the mid-1990s, developed by Terminal Reality and published by 3D Realms in 1995. ... Terminal Reality is a video game development and production company based out of Lewisville, Texas. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Duke Nukem 64 is a Nintendo 64 port of the first-person shooter PC (MS-DOS) video game Duke Nukem 3D. There are many changes from the PC version. ... Eurocom (founded: October 1988) is a UK-based video game developer founded specifically to develop games for the Nintendo Entertainment System. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Eurocom (founded: October 1988) is a UK-based video game developer founded specifically to develop games for the Nintendo Entertainment System. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Duke Nukem is a game for Game Boy Color. ... Torus Games company logo. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... This article is about the year 2001. ... Max Payne is a third-person shooter computer game developed by the Finnish company Remedy Entertainment, produced by 3D Realms and published by Gathering of Developers in July, 2001. ... Remedy Entertainment is a Finnish computer game developer founded in 1995 based in Espoo, Finland. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... ARUSH Entertainment is a video game publisher and developer based in Scottsdale, Arizona, United States. ... Sunstorm Interactive is a company that designs video games. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Duke Nukem Advance is a portable video game in the Duke Nukem series. ... Torus Games company logo. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne is a third-person shooter developed by Remedy Entertainment for the PC, Xbox, and PlayStation 2 systems. ... Remedy Entertainment is a Finnish computer game developer founded in 1995 based in Espoo, Finland. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... There exist two completely different games by Machine Works Northwest and 3D Realms with that title, one for the Tapwave Zodiac and another for a few cellular phones. ... Tapwave is the company that creates the Tapwave Zodiac. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2006 (MMVI), a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Prey is an as of yet unreleased video game being developed by Human Head Studios and produced by 3D Realms, using a modified version of the Doom 3 engine. ... Human Head Studios is a computer game development company located in Madison, WI. Started as a break away company from the developer Raven Software. ...

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3D Realms - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (527 words)
3D Realms is a computer game publisher and developer based in Garland, Texas, United States.
As a result of Duke Nukem Forever's long development cycle, 3D Realms has become infamous for stopping unauthorized third parties from using their trademarked characters in modifications for other games.
This may be because Nintendo heavily censored and stripped down the Nintendo 64 version of Duke Nukem 3D, as well as poor sales of the Gameboy Advance titles Max Payne and Duke Nukem Advance.
Duke Nukem Forever - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1978 words)
On September 14, 2004, 3D Realms announced that they have replaced the Karma physics engine with one designed by Swedish developer Meqon [4].
Originally utilizing id Software's Quake II engine, the 3D Realms team switched in 1998 to Epic's Unreal engine 1.0 [5], forcing a revision of all previous work except for the game's textures, which were later replaced anyway.
3D Realms CEO Scott Miller denies that relations have been strained at all.
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