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Re:Pinnacle – a modern tribute to the 1986 classic, The Sent... by PlunderBunny on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @04:14PM (#39832322)
There was no texture mapping, and the 'trick' that makes it work is that all you can do is rotate/pan in place. The only movement is instantaneous teleportation.
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Re:Pinnacle – a modern tribute to the 1986 classic, The Sent... by 77pt77 on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @05:08PM (#39832884)
It's still an amazing achievement.

The world procedural generation from a seed alone is amazingly well implemented in an environment so constrained most programmers nowadays wouldn't even be able to do anything in.

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