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Posted by Chrissyx – 08.08.2021 – 23:18 Uhr – Kategorie: Spiele

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Gregor Punchatz zeigt zwei Jahre nach dem Demo-Reel erneut Einblicke in die Origin-Story von Duke Nukem. Er hatte 2008 an einer animierten Vorab-Version des Spiels gearbeitet und nach 13 Jahren diese nun vollständig veröffentlicht:

Er schildert dazu einige interessante Details:

In 2008, when I was working for the good folks at Janimation in Dallas Tx,
we were hired by Gearbox to create a vertical slice (an animated version of what the game will look like) for the game "Duke Nukem Begins", a Duke origin story.

I headed up this project, as the director at Janimation, and did a lot of the character development, including the design and modeling of Duke. We poured everything we had into making the most awesome cinematic Janimation had ever created. But unfortunately, we got word the game was canceled due to the legal issues with Duke Nukem at the time.

"Duke Nukem Begins" was never made.

It crushed us, as this was what we thought could help us compete with bigger players in the game trailer market at the time.

Because it is still a piece I am damn proud of, I am releasing it 13 years after its creation. The whole team that worked with me deserves to see this released into the wild.

I hope this somehow resurrects this version of the game by showing the world how awesome it would have been...

Ob die Veröffentlichung nach dem Aufkauf von Embracer wohl ein Zufall ist?

Nachtrag: Scott Miller, Gründer von 3D Realms, beschreibt Duke Begins als seine Idee und freut sich über die Einstellung, da es von seinem ursprünglichen Konzept abwich:

This game was my idea…to tell the origin story for Duke. So I put together a deal for Gearbox to make the game for Take2, with 3D Realms producing it. But honestly, I was not happy with the direction that Gearbox was taking it so at the time I was glad it was canceled.

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Quelle(n):     ↓https://twitter.com/GPunchatz/status/1424210598573666311https://www.facebook.com/JSJisDuke/posts/282550943675719