{"id":13948,"date":"2018-02-28T22:18:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T22:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/315085"},"modified":"2018-02-28T22:18:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T22:18:00","slug":"3d-realms-resurrects-22-year-old-build-engine-for-ion-maiden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/02\/28\/3d-realms-resurrects-22-year-old-build-engine-for-ion-maiden\/","title":{"rendered":"3D Realms resurrects 22 year old Build engine for Ion Maiden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>3D Realms <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/3DRealms\/status\/968869693200240640\">announced on Twitter today<\/a> that a preview campaign of <em>Ion Maiden<\/em> is now available on Steam through\u00a0early access.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ion Maiden<\/em> is being developed using\u00a0the 22-year-old Build engine, which was also used to make previous 3D Realms first-person titles from the 90s, including\u00a0<em>Duke Nukem\u00a03D<\/em> and <em>Shadow Warrior<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Josh Olin, formerly VP of publishing at 3D Realms who worked on the upcoming\u00a0<em>Ion Maiden<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JD_2020\/status\/968865678785761280\">said on Twitter<\/a>, &#8220;What&#8217;s really special about it is that it&#8217;s built on the 90s era Build engine. So it&#8217;s not like Unreal or Unity, dumbed-down to look retro. It <em>is<\/em>\u00a0a retro engine, retrofitted to run on modern hardware.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Described as a prequel to <em>Bombshell\u00a0<\/em>(which released in 2016), 3D Realms is working with developer Voidpoint\u00a0to make <em>Ion Maiden<\/em> in the Build engine.<\/p>\n<p>The Dallas-based studio has been under the ownership of Danish investment firm SDN Invest and\u00a0investor Mike Nielsen since 2014,\u00a0acquiring 3D Realms with the intention of\u00a0making new games.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Ion Maiden<\/em> is a throwback to classic shooters, a\u00a0spiritual successor to <em>Duke Nukem 3D<\/em>,\u201d VP of 3D Realms Frederik Schreiber <a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2018\/02\/28\/3d-realms-shows-neo-retro-shooter-ion-maiden\/\">explained\u00a0to VentureBeat<\/a>.\u00a0\u201cIt doesn\u2019t impersonate a \u201990s game. It is a \u201990s game.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3D Realms announced on Twitter today that a preview campaign of Ion Maiden is now available on Steam through\u00a0early access. Ion Maiden is being developed using\u00a0the 22-year-old Build engine, which was also used to make previous 3D Realms first-person titles from the 90s, including\u00a0Duke Nukem\u00a03D and Shadow Warrior. Josh Olin, formerly VP of publishing at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}