Tape on a platter, basically.

Sure, but the developer is an indie that has been developing this as a passion project for years and showing it off in various states of progress. If the iconic logo is the only thing the current publisher can add to this then it’s still worth it.

Hey thanks for describing this hypothetical situation, I pay Steam for a lot of game licenses so I’ve lost touch with the current philosophy of hypothetical alternatives.

Aww yiss, these articles are some nice entertaining reading.

Upvote for calling out the ambiguity in the title:

• “Doom popularized some mechanics still used today” - this is not that.
• “FPS engines descend from ideas in the Doom source code” - this is not that.
• “id named their engines with ‘Tech’” - this isn’t that, Doom was before that.
• “Modern descendants of the original Doom engine can informally be called ‘tech’” - this is what the title means.

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