The past few months I’ve been working on/off on a project that loads and renders Quake2 (idTech2) BSP files using the .NET language called C# for the program logic and XNA for input and rendering purposes. Initially the idea was to use XNA and build from the ground up game technology to run our titles on using technologies I’m familiar with in the form of the Quake and idTech2 engines. Initially the idea was to try and swat two flies at once by developing tech that could carry our game titles on as well as have a clean replacement for our “Ultimate Quake Engine” (UQE) project.

This is the utopia, but it is not possible to accomplish this in a decent timeframe.
On the one hand you want to build technology that is competitive regarding capabilities to other engines or renderers out there, but on the other hand you want to remain faithful to what the technology should be able to do regarding the UQE project. Ultimately its impossible to build a single technology that looks into both directions without having a dated or bloated design. We decided the best was to go, as Corvus Games, is to utilize XNA for simpler arcade-like titles and for larger titles license a commercial engine like Torque3D and the likes.

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