:For an overview of the Quake game franchise go to Quake series. See earthquake for alternate use of "quake" term.- Quake was also a brand of sugar-sweetened cereal which was popular in the U.S. in the late 1960s. See Quisp.
Quake is a first-person shooter (FPS) game that was published by id Software on 31 May 1996. It introduced several major advances in the 3D game genre: it uses 3-dimensional models for players and monsters instead of 2-dimensional sprites; and the world in which play takes place is created as a true 3-dimensional space, rather than a 2-dimensional map with height information which is then rendered to 3D. It also incorporated the use of lightmaps and dynamic light sources, as opposed to the sector-based static lighting used in games of the past. Many believe that it kick-started the independent 3D graphics card revolution, "GLQuake" being the first application to truly demonstrate the capabilities of the 3DFX "Voodoo" chipset at the time. The impact of the Quake engine is still being felt to this day.
The majority of programming work on the Quake engine was done by John Carmack. Michael Abrash, a program performance optimization specialist, was brought in to help make the software rendering engine feasible with regards to speed. The background music for the game was composed by Trent Reznor, of Nine Inch Nails.
Quake and its two sequels Quake II and Quake III ArenaFor an overview of the Quake game franchise go to Quake series. Quake III Arena (Q3A) is a multiplayer first person shooter game made by id Software in 1999. Players move throughout the map, or "arena", to kill, or " frag", enemy players and score points have sold over 4 million copies combined.
1 The Story
In Quake you are a marine for the government sent into a portal to stop an enemy known as "Quake". This enemy has been sending terrible demons and death squads through the government's new slipgate technology. This slipgate technology allows instant transportation of cargo or any other material. Once sent through the portal you must fight through hundreds of demons to stop the enemy. The other realm is inspired by several influences, notably that of H. P. LovecraftHoward Phillips Lovecraft ( August 20, 1890 March 15, 1937) was an American author of fantasy and horror fiction, noted for giving horror stories a science fiction framework. Lovecraft's readership was limited during his life, but his works have become qu (the end game boss being Shub-NiggurathThis article is about the Cthulhu Mythos deity. Shub-Niggurath is also the name of a French Band, Shub-Niggurath (band). Shub-Niggurath also known as The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young is one of the fictional deities of H. Lovecraft's Cthul herself).
2 Network Play
Quake includes a multi-player mode to play over LAN or the InternetThis article is about the Internet the extensive, worldwide computer network available to the public. An internet is a more general term for a set of interconnected computer networks that are connected by internetworking''. WWW information network structu with or against other humans. The network play uses a client/server model, where the actual game runs on the server only and all players "log in" there to participate. Depending on the client's specific route to the server, different clients will get different pingping is the name of a computer network tool used on TCP/IP networks (such as the Internet). It provides a basic test of whether a particular host is operating properly and is reachable on the network from the testing host. It works by sending ICMP packets times. The lower your latency (ping time), the smoother your in-game motions, and the easier it is to accurately aim and score. Someone playing on the server PC gets a substantial advantage due to essentially zero lag.
