As chronicled on the WoT page, I couldn’t get into UnrealEd at all and gladly went back to Quake editing.

My first contact with the engine had been during my initial, short stint on The Wheel of Time. And if you could wrap your head around its editing paradigm. If you could get it to run, that is – the initial VBasic version was notoriously finicky. And an editor that did indeed deliver everything the screenshots had promised. Huge outdoor environments, beautiful graphics with many effects that had never been seen. I remember looking at the game in the Ritual offices, and everybody was quite impressed. But when Unreal arrived, it made a big splash. The presumed Quake Killer wasn’t released until after Quake 2. While I was creating Quake maps in simple wireframe viewports, UnrealEd screenshots promised editing views that were fully textured and lit(!). And to me, as a level designer, Unreal’s editor looked pretty damn delicious. Magazines had declared it the “Quake Killer”, but every time you thought the game might be close, it disappeared from the radar instead. Unreal was always hovering around during the late 90s, just barely out of sight.

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