Quakeweek
July 4, 1997


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GLQuake 2 Needs No Special Hardware, Says id

Catholic Church Finds Quake 'Demonic,' Condemns id Software

'Batman and Robin: The Game' to Use Quake Engine

Quake 'Clone' Created in Wyoming

Ego Software Announces Quake 2 Competitor

Hell Freezes Over

An Open Letter From Microsoft to OpenGL Supporters

American McGee Talks About Quake 2

Spacetec Donates 'Real' SpaceOrb 360 to NASA

Quake64 Nears Completion
John Carmack Denies Quake Was Written By Extraterrestrials


THE INTERNET - The Internet gaming community was shocked by the slanderous remarks made last Monday by Jonathan McKinley, webmaster of The Wonder of Aliens. According to McKinley's statement, id Software's popular Quake videogame was not written by id, or by any human for that matter, but by superior beings from another planet.

An excerpt from TWoA:

Author of Quake?It strikes me as rather obvious that id did not write this code. But for them to acknowledge the talent of non-Earthlings would be for them to admit that they do not have the adequate programming skills. They knew that 99% of the public would not believe that aliens wrote Quake, and the quality of the code could simply be attributed to [John] Carmack's "genius." Essentially, they must have left out the poor aliens in the credits because they felt they could get away with it.

id SoftwareJohn Carmack, lead programmer for id, responded in his .plan file:

Some poor misguided soul at unbalanced.org has decided, unilaterally, that I and id Software (by association), are lying about the origins of the Quake engine, that it was written by extraterrestrials. I think I can safely say this individual is an absolute wacko.

The public arguments raged on for several days, until they ended abruptly with the death of Jonathan McKinley, who was killed in a car accident last night. McKinley's house was also burned to the ground by arsonists on the same night, destroying any evidence he claimed to have. Similarly, the unbalanced.org web server was hacked into and The Wonder of Aliens website was erased, though all other data were left intact.

The FBI refused to comment.