[Marphy Black]

With the relatively recent unceremonious deaths of the legacy and archive 3D Realms sites, I thought it prudent to announce an endeavor I've been poking away at for a little while now that aims to combat against more history vanishing.

To start off immediately with the point, the Duke Art Archive may be accessed here: https://drive.google...jFcI9tqqidpV8zK

Long story short: there's a great deal of Duke's always-enchanting artwork that's at risk of becoming lost. A lot of this artwork has been kindly made publicly available before, but this has been spread across many individual artist portfolios, forum posts, digital and disc press kits, tweets, Discord messages, game leaks, magazines and other print media, and so much more across a time span of decades. I can tell you that an astonishing number of these sources are now gone, and there's a significant amount of it that hasn't been archived online in any form whatsoever.

Hence, the goal of the Duke Art Archive is to preserve the artwork from Duke and Duke-adjacent games and notate the sources from which these pieces originated to allow better appreciation of both the art and the artists. The focus for the artwork here is the stuff you wouldn’t normally see while playing the games themselves, or at least not in the greatest quality. This covers cover artwork, promotional artwork and advertisements, logos, development concept art and model renders, and so forth. For a more thorough rundown of what the archive entails and how to use it, check out the README.

As for its current status, there are several clearly marked WIP sections that have only just begun to be populated, but the available Duke folders already contain a majority of the highest quality direct digital versions of the artwork relevant to those titles. I'm now at the point where it's necessary to move on to scanned material since a good deal of artwork has never been released in its raw digital form, hence magazine scans, box covers scans, and so forth are on the horizon. There are several paths forward here, including scanning my own collection to gather the material, but I'm certainly open to community suggestions and contributions in this regard, especially for items that I don't physically own.

All that said, this is very much going to be a continual ongoing project, and it'll grow faster and encompass more content with the assistance of the community at large. If you've located any relevant material, have anything to contribute, got suggestions to make, or whatnot, please don't hesitate to send a message my way.

And finally, I wish to credit the following individuals for making this archive as possible as it currently is (also written and updated in the README):

• Duke Nukem 3D Maps (Lunick)
  
• The Duke Nukem and BUILD Archives (Jimmy)
  
• The Duke Cave
  
• Green
  
• Hendricks
  
• Fox
  
• K100Nukem
  
• Besli
  
• Nacho (Endangered Species collection)
  
• Nico of GameWallpapers.com
  
• The many community members over the years who have identified and preserved forum posts, magazines, portfolios, press kits, and so many other sources which contain these materials