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Last Updated: December 25, 2000
Computer Games Links
Age Of Empires
Age of Empires is a realtime strategy game produced by Microsoft. It starts in the Stone Age, and the idea is to progress your villiage through to the Bronze Age, while fending off enemies (either the computer or other players). The sites listed here provide hints and strategies on how to succeed at this game.
Quake/Quake II/Quake III
- The Stomping Grounds
- Miscellaneous information about Quake and Quake II, as well as some similar games like Halflife, Hexen, Doom, Sin, etc.
- Id Software
- Creators of Quake and Quake II.
Tools
- Wally
- Freeware texture editor. VERY well supported, especially considering that it is freeware.
- QOOLE
- The editor I use. It has its flaws, like all of them, but it seems to have the simplest overall interface.
- QOOLE news
- Information about the upcoming QOOLE 99.
- qWAL
- Tool for managing textures.
- 3D Matrix
- Creators of qED and qWAL.
- AdQuedit
- Editor for textures, skins, etc.
- qED
- Another graphical level editor.
- Deathmatch Maker
- Another graphical level editor. Unlike most others, though, this one does not offer a "lite" or trial version.
- Worldcraft
- Another graphical level editor. While this one does have a free trial version, that version does not support Quake II.
- Pack Editors
- Helpful listing of various PAK editors
- QERadiant
- Freeware editor, based on QE4 (the editor id software used when creating Quake II)
- QME
- Quake Model Editor, for creating new monsters, weapons, etc.
- QPed II
- Quake II .PAK file editor
- QuakeEd 4.0 - Radiant
- Another spinoff of QE4.
- Quest
- Another Quake II level editor
- BSP
- Another Quake II level editor
- Q3Radiant
- Q3Radiant homepage: Quake III editor
- Q3Radiant Files
- Download Q3Radiant (freeware) and other associated utilities and documentation
- QERadiant
- Freeware, based on the source code for QE4 (the editor Id used to make Quake II)
Information and Tutorials
- Expert Quake
- No technical advice on how to build levels, but more advice on how to design a good level.
- Quake MAP Specs
- Specifications for the layout of .MAP files
- Quake Workshop: Build Errors
- Helpful hints on fixing build errors.
- rust
- Good tutorials.
- The Absolute Beginner
- Explanation of basic level-editing concepts for complete beginners.
- The Quake Workshop2
- Tutorials on specific entity functions, and hints on how to deal with specific build errors.
- LevelEd
- Miscellaneous tutorials, mostly for Quake, but still often applicable to Quake II.
- Quake Documentation
- Unofficial Quake Technical Specification. Explains many of the underlying parts of building a Quake level, not specific to any particular editor. Also an explanation of Quake-C. Unfortunately, entirely based on Quake, not Quake II.
- Quake Developers Pages
- Basic low-level technical information about the Quake engine, with information about building levels for use with the Quake engine. Unfortunately, also entirely based on Quake, not Quake II.
- Q3Radiant Tutorials
- Tutorials for using the Quake III editor Q3Radiant
- Quake III Editing FAQ
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- Quake3World
- Miscellaneous information about Quake III level editing
Starship Titanic
Reviews
- GameSpot
- Provides reviews and demos for new and soon-to-be-released games.
Miscellaneous
- Infocom
- Back before multimedia (not that long ago), these games were actually fun. Infocom provided one of the better sets of interactive fiction games. Most of them were purely text-only.
- Racter FAQ
- Sort of a reverse-Eliza, an old text game (well, sort of) consisting of a conversation with the computer.
- Trilobyte
- Makers of The 7th Guest and The 11th Hour
- Classic 80's Arcade Games
- Play classic 1980's arcade games online for free
- Downloadable GameSpot Game Guides
- Hints/tips/strategies on many computer games
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