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Boomer Shooters
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A community about boomer shooters, a type of old-school FPS games before Half-Life revolutionized the genre. Boomer shooters have emphasis on shooting and sometimes traversing mechanics, are light or devoid of cutscenes, and the fun of making things go boom takes precedence over story. The name originates from a tongue in cheek description of the 2018 game Dusk and since stuck as a shorthand for the type of FPS.
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Don't complain about the term boomer shooter. It's a fixed term. I did not make it up.
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Half-Life is not a boomer shooter.
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The video is a 20 minutes long dive into the software architecture of Wolf3D, you commented within 3 minutes of my submission.
Unless you already knew the video, it's unlikely your comment is qualified.
Which is it?
The video is about software architecture, not whether it was the first 3D game or not. In fact, it explicitly references source code from Catacomb 3D in Wolf3D's engine.
You are arguing about what you imagined the video might be about!!!
It isn't about the 1st 3d video game. I didn't watch the entire video but it took only a few seconds of scanning to understand that the video is about software design, not "who invented the 3d game"