After leaving Id Software, Tom Hall joined Apogee to lead Rise of the Triad, a game that was originally designed to be a sequel to Wolfenstein 3D.

It's fun to see this leak, reminds me of a lot I'd forgotten about this game. Aliens were helping Nazis win WW2, and Duke--using alien time travel tech--went back in time to stop them and the Nazis. The twist is that while Duke was in the past he stole the time travel tech and

Easter eggs are in every Duke game.

A few dev signatures. Chuck Jones is still working with us on two projects.

This is the PC that uploaded the shareware version of Duke Nukem 3D to the world in 1996. George is pointing to it, and you can see the upload bar is about halfway done.

A few things we keep deep in storage.

Jared R Bair is LIVE with the Apogee Weekly Stream! 🧙‍♂️ Showcasing the wildest entries from the latest @Wizordum Map Jam ⚔️ Then diving into Quest Master’s best community-built dungeons Come hang: twitch.tv/JaredRBair

One day I plan to make this leather jacket that Tommy wore in Prey.

In Oct 1990 I had a call with John Romero and John Carmack about making their first shareware game for Apogee. At this time no one knew the game would become Commander Keen as that idea came from Tom Hall a week later. I just knew that whatever game they made would be awesome,

In 1982, this was as close as we got to a laptop PC. Imagine trying to take this on flights. And the screen was about the size of Gameboy display.

Mirror technology. Never easy to pull off in games.

Someone needs to tell Adi that we've had nothing to do with Duke for over a decade--so what do we have to be sorry about?? That's on Gearbox now 🤷‍♂️ I hope the show is good if it comes out. But here at Apache we're just Duke fans, nothing more.

In another universe they got a version of Max Payne with super soldier thugs who could hulk smash vehicles and toss them at Max. In our universe we got the more realistic version of the game, less brutal combat but more psychologically devastating for Max.

Found these in storage from 25 years ago so brought them home to put on my desk. They're highly detailed, made of metal, and cool AF. Star Trek has some of the most iconic ship designs. The Enterprise and the Klingon battlecruiser, as examples, are just such incredibly creative

Check out this 12 min video interview with the solo dev behind Total Chaos (and Turbo Overkill). Sam is a one-man developer studio doing the work of 10 people somehow. Every time I listen to him I learn something amazing about his development process.

Ditto, Jared. You’ve been awesome.

Part of Max Payne's world tour.

Laughed my ass off when I first saw this.