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DOOM-3-BFG

Doom 3 BFG Edition

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Doom 3 BFG Edition

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HN mentions by year18 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2012-11-26 20:56:32 UTC to 2024-05-29 07:31:34 UTC.

02462012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 2 submissions, 4 comments20122013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2024

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC624
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

18 sources
ibobev·May 29, 2024
ID Software released the source code of their classic games up to "Doom 3: BFG Edition"[1] but it is unlikely that they will release the code for any of their newer games. I think that the reason is using a closed-source middleware owned by other companies in their newer titles. Any modern AAA game even with its own engine uses one or more third-party middleware which hinders its release as an open source. [1] https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM-3-BFG
In Ask HN: Why do games companies not release source code for old games?
ThatPlayer·May 29, 2024
Yeah, OP's example of Doom had the original sound engine library ripped out of the source code for release: https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM/blob/master/README.TXT#L... Similarly Doom 3's source code release had features ripped out: https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM-3-BFG/blob/master/README... And that's a 20 year old game which id made the engine for. A 10 year old game that used Unreal Engine 3 would need permissions for Unreal Engine 3 for the source code to not be useless.
In Ask HN: Why do games companies not release source code for old games?
scoutt·Mar 28, 2023
I guess you can still write valuable software, even more complex than most people can write in a lifetime, with simple (03) C++. Like Doom 3: https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM-3-BFG > What you are describing On the other hand, while I think you have the best intentions, I believe what you are describing is also the exact meaning of FUD. In that precise order: "in C++ they have serious consequences" is Fear, "There are bugs in the code--probably in your code--right now" is Uncertainty, and "Some might be CVEs" is Doubt.
In C++ Initialization Story
albertzeyer·Feb 13, 2016
STL is maybe a bit missleading because it doesn't seem like it is a drop-in replacement for the STL. However, this is certainly interesting because the emphasis on speed (and thus also on simplicity) is what I'm sometimes missing in the real STL or in Boost. That's exactly what you need in a game but also in much other performance critical code. As far as I remember, Chrome has used the STL earlier. But I looked now and I see this: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/blink/+/master/So... Gecko also seem to have a lot of custom stuff: https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/tree/master/xpcom/strin... Doom3 idLib: https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM-3-BFG/tree/master/neo/id... Unreal engine: https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/2695/rocket-and-t... You'll find much more similar libs when you search in some of the big games.
In Electronic Arts Standard Template Library for C++ Open Sourced
nadams·Sep 19, 2015
> Garbage collection isn't a very good solution. I clearly didn't say it was. > They're often implemented poorly (the only good one being Go's) and they're slow. Do you have any evidence to support that? From my experiences and tests C# has been on par with C++ [1]. Of course it might be slightly slower but not enough for me to dismiss it. Java I think is a little bit slower - but my problem with Java is its memory requirements. > Garbage collection also necessitates a runtime environment to keep track of the data. Assuming they do this in a separate thread and you have an OS that schedules threads/processes in a sane way and the GC doesn't need to interact with the main thread - you should never notice a performance hit in your application. > What is not smart about smart pointers? They don't track the actual memory usage. John Carmack i
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mplemented his own version of memory management for both Doom 3 [2] and Doom 3 BFG [3] presumably so he could get debugging information that isn't available with the C++11 smart pointers. I've implemented something similar to Doom 3's heap where I track the line and file of where the heap memory was allocated. The one thing I've noticed about developers today is that they have become lazy. Yeah - smart pointers will work correctly in simple cases and 90-99% of the time but it was written by humans so it may have bugs in it. Most C++ developers today refuse to run valgrind because they just assume their program doesn't leak memory when using shared_ptr/unique_ptr. I have personally found memory leaks in pretty popular open source projects. I would have told them about it - but I've found most C++ communities to not welcome new people and their ideas. [1] http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/212856/Head-to-head-benc... [2] https://github.com/TTimo/doom3.gpl/blob/8047099afdfc5c973faa... [3] https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM-3-BFG/blob/9c37079c16015...
In C++ Core Guidelines
atesti·Nov 27, 2012
What's this? https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM-3-BFG/tree/master/neo/sw... A whole SWF-parser/player/renderer? Like Scaleform? Seems to have no ActionScript implementation. Does anybody know more about this? How complete is it and what features of flash does it play? It's remarkable that ID software created such a clean nice game engine and holds all the IP without integrating other components: The whole physics engine is also in there and had even been open sourced very early as part of the Doom 3 sdk.
In Doom 3 BFG Edition source code released

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