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This Is How the 3D Pipes Windows Screensaver Was Created
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this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2024
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Why does the title focus on 3D pipes specifically?
I feel like I hear about 3D Maze way more when people are reminiscing about old screensavers. Just sorta weird titling
The Maze was based on previous work by id Software and others. IIRC, it was kinda janky when held up against Doom or even Wolfenstien or Heritic/Hexen. Hell, Descent was out by then as well.
Pipes? Pipes was something else. None of those games I mentioned bothered to make something look round in any believable capacity. Pipes did that, seemingly with shading 🫨