Samuel Villarreal
@SVKaiser
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Lead engine developer at Nightdive Studios and head developer of the Kex projects. Cooking/baking enthusiast
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Okay so yeah, there's an interview in relations to this certain game that I geeked about for years. Take a guess
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Source code for the Quake 2 rerelease is now up on GitHub, including the reverse engineered code from Quake 2 64
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Happy to finally announce that other thing I've been working on.
Turok 3 Remastered is coming soon.
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@XboxP3
Just letting you know, having a long running history and extensive knowledge with Heretic and Hexen, just want to point out that me and my team are very well suited for the job.
Just saying.
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With Turok 3 Remastered coming out in 3 days, I figured I share some technical tidbits of how the game works.
For animated characters, every 'joint' of the model can be collided with projectiles. To do this, a collision box is computed. In the remaster, these boxes are…
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Surprise! Second thing I am working on got announced
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Finally someone noticed
wow, the quake revitalized update added the cut section at the beginning of 'the dismal oubliette' back onto the level officially
#quake
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Back in 2011 I was reverse engineering Turok out of sheer curiosity and for fun. I never expected that I'd get to this point.
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"LET NIGHTDIVE REMAKE ALIENS VERSUS PREDATOR 2"
I totally agree.
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Levels will be remastered in their own way, combining elements from both Saturn and PSX versions. Saturn content will all have fixed UV mapping and geometry holes as seen in the original. Lighting is also redone with baked-in ambient occlusion.
#RD2021
#realmsdeep2021
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February 10. Now stop asking me about it
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The real reason to get hyped on March 20th
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Say hello to BloodEX
And yes, for real this time.
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Quake EX.. I mean Quake remastered has just pushed its first major update
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Here's a picture of Brian McNeely showing the cast used for the Cobra Staff
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Nothing's better than failing PS4 certification one week before a game is shipped because it crashes when loading a specific level, only on a PS4 Pro, only on 4k resolution, and only when a debugger is not attached.
Yup, I sure do enjoy that.
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Expect more news coming soon, but for now, enjoy these teaser shots
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System Shock source code has been released on Github!
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Shit happens but I appreciate everyone waiting a bit longer.
Turok 3: Shadow of Oblivion now has an updated release date of Nov. 30 for Xbox One, Series X|S, PS4, PS5, Nintendo Switch, and PC! 💫
Nightdive Studios thanks everyone for their patience and understanding as we work to deliver the best Turok 3 experience possible 🙏
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What the shadow actually looks like in the Saturn version of Powerslave
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Once again, having nothing to do on Memorial Day, decided to revisit a special project of mine..
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Already made a fix for the stuttering issues on the Switch and music timing should now more or less be the same as TFE's output. Will try to get this patched into the Steam build asap. No word on how long console patches will take.
We have the first look at Dark Forces Remastered! It’s extremely good overall with just a couple nitpicks. Truly an important piece of gaming history.
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Surprise!
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ShadowmanEX coming April 15th
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4 more days until release
#NightDiveStudios
#ValiantEntertainment
#Shadowman
#ShadowmanRemastered
#Steam
#GOG
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There are more announcements happening later this year. It's been a busy year.
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Apparently, I fucked up with reverse engineering the Baron of Hell's melee damage formula for the Doom 64 remaster
In other words, it was suppose to deal way more damage, with the highest being 88 damage.
There's always the patch right?
Oh.. nevermind.
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Still working on improving DarkForces Remaster. The two big ones are better mod support and improving the MIDI music player, particularly the timings of the notes.
Here's a demonstration showcasing the music in the current release, versus the new one
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Original composer for Turok 3 discusses some tidbits about this thought process on remastering the soundtrack. Worth checking out
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Sneak peak of Turok 3 Remaster's editing tools
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Blood Ex... I mean Blood: Fresh Supply is now out!
And now I am going to run off and hide.
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Fun fact about Quake 2021's renderer - iterating the BSP in Arcane Dimensions and Machinegame's new episode was a huge CPU bottleneck on the Switch. Instead, the entire level is rendered with all unique textured surfaces batched as individual draw calls.
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For those who are getting performance issues on the hub level in the new episode of Quake, can someone try setting r_gpuCulling to 0 in the console? I am curious to see if that is the culprit or not.
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Hope to see you there!
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Hardest part of remastering an old game is making it user friendly for modding. Especially when there was no actual modding scene for the game back in the day.
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2 more days until release
#NightDiveStudios
#ValiantEntertainment
#Shadowman
#ShadowmanRemastered
#Steam
#GOG
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I am taking every feedback, comment, and harassment seriously and will address every problem for Blood: Fresh Supply and I appreciate every single one of them. Except for those who say its inferior to BloodCM. They can just fuck right off
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This looks adorable
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Here comes the reviews
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Patch for Powerslave Exhumed is finally out
I'll be writing up some docs soon on how to use the level editor.
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Our mission is to bring back forgotten games, good or bad.
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Don't get mad, get PO'ed
We know you’ve been hungry for the return of another 90s classic, so we cooked up something extra special that should help satisfy your appetite...
🍳 PO'ed: Definitive Edition 🍳
It's just like you remember it, but ✨ ENHANCED✨
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As stated by Nightdive, Turok 3 has been pushed back to November 30th, however to make matters even more confusing, Nintendo Europe and Australia still has November 14th set as the release date, which was NOT intentional.
So that means European and Australian Switch users will be…
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Kinda surreal seeing my levels featured at the end
First Person Shooters? Chainsaws? Satanic Panic? Let's talk Doom64!
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I am finally happy to announce that Rise of the Triad Ludicrous Edition is finally out. Huge thanks to
@Apogee_Ent
and
@NewBlood
for giving us this opportunity of a lifetime.
It's time to GET LUDICROUS!
Rise of the Triad: LUDICROUS EDITION - the DEFINITIVE remaster of the original CULT CLASSIC '90s FPS is🔺OUT NOW🔺
EAT LEAD!
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Could be better but I am mostly happy with the results..
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I am extremely disturbed by the lack of decent Rise of the Triad source ports. And every existing source port out there renders ceilings and floors incorrectly. Its even worse when you see it in motion.
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Having worked on Aliens: Colonial Marines has been both a curse and a blessing. It may have ended my level design career and forcing me to switch roles to stay afloat, but if it wasn't for that, I wouldn't have ended up at Nightdive Studios doing stuff that I enjoy.
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When remastering, its always a huge treat gaining access to the original source code of the game, because it provides a lot of neat insights on what the developers had to overcome and what references/research they used in their code.
PO'ed has about 7 mentions in the source code…
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I am a sucker for FPS games with this aesthetic. Kinda reminds me of Unreal 1
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Powerslave EX is returning
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Dunno what's the difference between unofficial and official versions? Refer to this
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Fun fact (Part 1) - lighting in Shadowman Remastered uses forward-clustering as documented in . Colors represents the number of overlapping lights, ranging from blue (no lights) to red (lots of lights).
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If you don't know who the Dopefish is, you're not a true boomer.
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Powerslave EX revival not far...
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Happy new year everyone. Can't wait to reveal all of the unannounced projects in 2024, especially this one project I am developing that has a special place in my heart. Definitely can't wait to reveal that one. You guys will love it.
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I am thinking about starting a Youtube channel on how various things work in the games that I've worked on, but I lack the knowledge (and patience) on video editing software. I also thought about just using Wordpress or something instead.
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At least they acknowledged it as the true sequel
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:-)
A remaster of '90s FPS classic PowerSlave has been teased by the specialists at
@NightdiveStudio
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Decided to do something different for screenshot Saturday and post a historical relic instead. This is DEX, the level editor that was used for constructing the levels for Doom 64 at Midway. This was also mentioned in the Doom Depot Interview as well.
#screenshotsaturday
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Lucius is back and with a whole new Dark Forces engine
Looks like kino is back on the menu boys
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Fun fact, in the original Shadowman PC game, if you create a folder called 'Ziggy' and then inside, put a blank file named 'stardust' (no extension) will enable debug mode where you can spawn enemies, enable invincibility, warp to different positions, and possibly more.
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Happy to finally announce that a remaster of Rise of the Triad is alive and well
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I've been grateful being able to work on a game that held a special place in my heart many years ago. It was very fascinating learning about how the game worked and looking at its data structures. I thank the original AnyChannel devs for giving me this opportunity!
Oh, by the…
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Currently some users are experiencing micro stutters from the recent Quake 2 remaster patch. I am already aware of it and already addressed it. No word on when this fix will go live.
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Figured I jump in on the fun while the dead horse is still fresh
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New video by decino showcases the Doom64 monster behavior differences
Though the blue player bot palette wasn't part of the original game, it was actually added by me for the original Doom64 EX back when its cooperative mode was somewhat functional.
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Life is too short. Go do at least one dumb thing in your life.
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It's almost that time
Alright, alright. If you've been super curious about
#BloodFreshSupply
, I'd head over to
@PCGamer
tomorrow morning around, say 11 AM PST, for a major update.
@atari
@NightdiveStudio
#Blood
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Whenever I am feeling depressed, lonely or burned out I end up baking or cooking for fun. Today I somehow ended up baking about 4 dozen macadamia nut cookies when I just wanted to make 1 dozen. House smells like a bakery now.
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More of D64EX... erm I mean Doom 64 will be shown at the Bethesda stream!
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Someday, I will finish developing this map set for Quake...
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In case no one noticed, I seriously recommend checking out PsyDoom, which brings the complete experience of PSX Doom to the PC.
Downloads:
Gameplay Video:
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