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Duke Nukem 3D was a commercial hit, selling about 3.5 million copies. [54] [55] In the United States alone, it was the 12th best-selling computer game in the period from 1993 to 1999, with 950,000 units sold. [56] NPD Techworld, a firm that tracked sales in the United States, [57] reported 1.25 million units sold of Duke Nukem 3D by December ...
Version 2.0 of EDuke, a project to improve Duke Nukem 3D for modders by Matt Saettler (Matteus), was sent to 3D Realms for packaging shortly after the release of the Build source, leaving Duke Nukem 3D the pre-built libraries that 3D Realms had used with the original Duke. (Both Duke Nukem 3D and EDuke were still closed-source at this point.)
One of the first projects to be announced after the success of Duke Nukem 3D was a return to Duke Nukem ' s 2D side-scrolling, platforming format for a game named Duke Nukem 4Ever. The project was directed by Keith Schuler, main designer and programmer for the games Paganitzu and Realms of Chaos, and a level designer for the Plutonium PAK.
In late 1996, however, Apogee renamed the company itself to 3D Realms to associate their brand with newer, 3D titles. [1] 3D Realms launched a brand for pinball games, Pinball Wizards, in February 1997, but only published Balls of Steel (1997) under the name. [3] Also beginning in 1997, with their licensed Duke Nukem sequels, 3D Realms shifted ...
A comic series titled Duke Nukem: Glorious Bastard by IDW Publishing [1] was released on July 20, 2011. IDW had previously created a 22-page comic book for the Duke Nukem Forever Balls of Steel Edition.
Apogee began using the brand name 3D Realms for its 3D games in 1994, and in 1996 rebranded the company itself to 3D Realms to focus on traditionally-published 3D titles. Duke Nukem 3D (1996) was released under this name to great success. 3D Realms largely ceased its publishing and development operations afterwards to focus on two extensively ...
The Build engine is a first-person shooter engine created by Ken Silverman for 3D Realms from 1993 to 1996. The engine was used in a number of popular games of the era, and its source code was released on June 20, 2000. [3] Shortly after the Duke Nukem 3D source code was released in 2003, Silverman added the Polymost renderer to the Build engine.
Scott Miller (born 1961) is an American video game designer, programmer, and entrepreneur best known for founding Apogee Software (which later became 3D Realms) in 1987. . Starting with the Kroz series for MS-DOS from that year, Miller pioneered the concept of giving away the first game in a trilogy—distributed freely as shareware—with the opportunity to purchase the remaining two episode