Technical Analysis of the 3D Software Rendering Engine in Thief: The Dark Project (1998)
In 1998 Looking Glass Studios released the stealth game Thief: The Dark Project. This was just as 3D hardware acceleration was taking off, so due to the development cycle it didn't use hardware…
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