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This Is How the 3D Pipes Windows Screensaver Was Created (www.howtogeek.com)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

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 🫨