It's been a while since we had a proper, single-player installment in the Quake series. 20 years this year, as a matter of fact, since the launch of Quake 4. Things could have seemingly been oh so different though as a designer at id Software just shared screenshots from a reimagining of the original Quake.
Thao Le, an environment artist who has been working on games at id since 2008, shared the screenshots on their webpage - thank you Dr. Hingis on Twitter for bringing attention to them. The designer shared various shots of a project they were working on that they describe as a reimagining of the first Quake game, released in 1996, and if it looks like a Doom/Quake hybrid, there's a very good reason for that.
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Thao Le notes that their Quake recreation was built partly using assets from Doom. Presumably, the Doom reboot in 2016 as if this new take on Quake really was something that id planned to be a fully-fledged release, it was scrapped around the time that it was working on that iteration of Doom.
The dev notes that the environments were created using IdTech 5, an...
