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Id Tech

id Tech is a series of successive game engines designed and developed by id Software. They are used in many of id Software's games, such as games in the Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein franchises, and has been also licensed to other developers. Several notable game engines, such as GoldSrc or the IW engine originate from id Tech code.

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Id Tech

Nodes119
Edges118
Triples117
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.016807
Components1

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related to id Tech 3 · 19
Id Tech → August, Castle Wolfenstein, Enemy Territory, GPL-2, GPL-3, It, MD3, MD4, OpenGL-compliant, Originally, Prey, Quake III Arena, Quake III Team Arena, Return, Software's Quake III Arena, Tech, The, The Quake III Arena, Wolfenstein
related to id Tech 6 · 18
Id Tech → CryEngine, Development, Doom, It, John Carmack's, MachineGames, May, Quake Champions, Saber3D Engine, Tech, The New Colossus, Tiago Sousa, Used, Vulkan, While, Wolfenstein, Wolfenstein II, Youngblood
related to id Tech 4 · 17
Id Tech → Brink, Doom, During, GPL-3, GUI, Human Head Studios' Prey, It, MD5, November, Originally, Other, Quake Wars, Raven Software's Quake, Splash Damage's Enemy Territory, Tech, The, Wolfenstein
related to id Tech 5 · 14
Id Tech → GUI, It, MachineGames, MegaTexture, Software's Rage, Some, Tango Gameworks' The Evil, Tech, The, The New Order, The Old Blood, Used, Within, Wolfenstein
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Id Tech → CEO Todd Hollenshead, Doom, FiringSquad, However, Prior, Quake, Quake II, Quake III Arena, Tech, The, The Quake II, WWDC
related to id Tech 7 · 10
Id Tech → At QuakeCon, Doom, Doom Eternal, March, On PC, Powered, Software, Tech, The, Vulkan
related to id Tech 8 · 9
Id Tech → At, Doom, It, May, PC, Software, Tech, The, The Dark Ages
related to id Tech 2 · 8
Id Tech → December, GPL-2, MD2, Originally, Quake II, Software's Quake II, Tech, The
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Id Tech → series of successive game engines designed and developed by id Software

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id engine tech software quake code released game engines doom wolfenstein used 0-or-later source games 3d also gpl-2 later features

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Id Techis aseries of successive game engines designed and developed by id Software0.90text
out-of-the-box support for hardware accelerationinstance ofwith features0.80text
enhanced network codeinstance ofwith features0.80text
colored lightinginstance ofwith features0.80text
and a new vertex-interpolated MD2 model format. id Tech 2 also features alpha blendinginstance ofwith features0.80text
radiosity lightmapsinstance ofwith features0.80text
and a modular architecture for the rendererinstance ofwith features0.80text
game codeinstance ofwith features0.80text
both now written in Cinstance ofwith features0.80text
compiled to shared librariesinstance ofwith features0.80text
Id Techrelated to id Tech 2Originally0.60section
Id Techrelated to id Tech 2Quake II0.60section

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