[Frederik Schreiber]

While going through roughly 25 years of history after we acquired 3D Realms, we recovered a lot of great material.

I'd like to use this thread to share our Duke Nukem 3D and Shadow Warrior findings with you.
If some of you have already seen these, oh well
To the rest of you, Enjoy!


First up - A few Un-Used Logo's from Duke3D:























Secondly, a few old Shadow Warrior assets:

[Lunick]

The Shadow Warrior art really is top notch. I also like the Apogee logo.

[Frederik Schreiber]

I have uploaded the Shadow Warrior Art in PSD, Layered, 4k resolution.
You guys can download both directly from here, and here. Great Resolution for Print!

[Doomfrost]

Any other games in there that have alpha/beta material or is it just Duke/Shadow Warrior related?

[Frederik Schreiber]

Doomfrost, on 16 April 2014 - 04:37 AM, said:

Any other games in there that have alpha/beta material or is it just Duke/Shadow Warrior related?

We can share material from anything 3DR, except Prey and DNF, as those specific titles are owned by Bethesda and Gearbox Software.

[Marphy Black]

Thanks for the high res Shadow Warrior art! That's the kind of thing I've been hoping to see for years. There's just so much great game/box/promo artwork from the era that hasn't been seen in its original form outside of the developers' studios. It's nice to finally see Wang in glorious archival quality.

[Doomfrost]

Frederik Schreiber, on 16 April 2014 - 04:39 AM, said:

We can share material from everything 3DR, except Prey and DNF, as those specific titles are owned by Bethesda and Gearbox Software.

Cool beans. Do you know if there's anything of Duke 1 and 2 worth posting? What about Death Rally or Wacky Wheels?

[Frederik Schreiber]

Doomfrost, on 16 April 2014 - 04:46 AM, said:

Cool beans. Do you know if there's anything of Duke 1 and 2 worth posting? What about Death Rally or Wacky Wheels?

We haven't stumbled upon any yet, but I'll definitely keep you posted If we find any!

[Daedolon]

Frederik Schreiber, on 16 April 2014 - 04:32 AM, said:

I have uploaded the Shadow Warrior Art in PSD, Layered, 4k resolution.

Huge thanks for posting this!

[Frederik Schreiber]

Daedolon, on 16 April 2014 - 04:51 AM, said:

Huge thanks for posting this!

You're welcome

[Frederik Schreiber]

Next Update.

I found an early version of Shadow Warrior.
Dated June, 1996.

It seems to have a completely different set of levels, the graphical style is more towards the serious and realistic.
Very Interesting

I've attached a capture of the folder, as well as a few photos of the game.
Sorry about the screen-glare. We are getting a new sunscreen set up, so we're currently working while wearing sunglasses

[Daedolon]

That's amazing. I suppose LameWarrior wouldn't be viable?

[Frederik Schreiber]

Duke Nukem 3D Builds - From every year and most months of development (And a lot of days)

[Frederik Schreiber]

Unfortunately no luck getting these to work so far. The builds are split into multiple rar's.
Putting the correct files together is a bit tricky as they seem to be located pretty randomly.

I'll keep you guys updated

[MrFlibble]

Amazing! Thanks for sharing all this stuff (and hopefully more)!

Frederik Schreiber, on 16 April 2014 - 07:49 AM, said:

Does it have the crossbow?

Frederik Schreiber, on 16 April 2014 - 08:31 AM, said:

Unfortunately no luck getting these to work so far. The builds are split into multiple rar's.
Putting the correct files together is a bit tricky as they seem to be located pretty randomly.

In case you have managed to assemble all the files from a particular build but it still refuses to work in vanilla DOSBox, you can try DOSBox SVN Daum. At least, Shadow Warrior shareware v1.0 and v1.1 that for some reason do not run in regular DOSBox work fine in DOSBox SVN Daum.

[jet_nick]

I suppose it never will share files art of shadow warrior beta right?

[Hendricks266]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

/me falls on knees and begs to share everything

Could I ask that you repost the images, where possible (especially the pixel art) in PNG format? (I mean conversion from the original and not JPEG --> PNG but you know that.)

[jet_nick]

I suppose it never will share files art of shadow warrior beta right?

[Hendricks266]

Frederik Schreiber, on 16 April 2014 - 04:22 AM, said:

From the one leaked SW beta we have:

[Jblade]

please please make those alphas/betas public if you can, even if not playable from the go. Just being able to explore it and stuff would be amazing!

[Tea Monster]

Wow, thanks for sharing that!

[NUKEMDAVE]

Isn't there supposed to be a build of Duke Nukem: Endangered Species that one forum member got his hands on, but wasn't allowed to share? I'd like to see that approved for release.

[Hendricks266]

NUKEMDAVE, on 16 April 2014 - 10:21 AM, said:

Isn't there supposed to be a build of Duke Nukem: Endangered Species that one forum member got his hands on, but wasn't allowed to share? I'd like to see that approved for release.

Yeah, that was Nacho.

[Darkus]

Whoa
When I think all of these versions have a 'never-seen-before' content, especially those from Shadow Warrior,
this makes me kinda jaleous, since I have bought SW because I have seen the beta screenshots from the DN3D CD.
I hope you'll make available those betas, or at least the resources, it would be awesome!

EDIT: I wonder if those models still exist...

[Marphy Black]

Hendricks266, on 16 April 2014 - 10:26 AM, said:

Yeah, that was Nacho.

Still waiting on that!

I doubt 3DR's archives would have much Endangered Species content (except maybe for the box art which I'd love to see) since it was developed externally, but if the okay could be given to Nacho for him to release the build he has to the public, that would be swell.

[♥Coraline♥]

That's really neat! I'd really love to see the stuff maybe before/immediately after Lameduke's production. Lameduke's concept was so god damn cool.

Go Fred! He's our man! If you don't suck it, Viper can!
Or you can insert my name. Uh huh huh.

[MYHOUSE.MAP]

Looking at the SW screenshot, it seems to show the old SW player character as an enemy. This explains why the old ninjas in the unused SW beta maps are giant Lo Wangs using the old ninja palletes; the devs used the player character's sprites for an enemy at one point. I originally thought it was because of something like the art file getting shuffled around after the old ninja enemy was scrapped.

[Doomfrost]

Pretty neat, is there a way to look into the .grp files themselves and see if the art is different than the retail?

[Jimmy]

Fred, now this is cool. I'll tell you, the best PR move you guys could ever make is assembling a crack command unit from the community and allow them to extensively trawl through these betas and things for unique assets. Trust me, this community has more than enough of the capability to do all of this for you guys given you provide the opportunity, that's assuming you guys aren't as familiar with BUILD as the diehards in this community. I'm even going to cease shit talking you guys in an act of good faith, because it looks like you guys really want to nut up and do by 3DR and this community right, which is all I care about. Small personal blathering does not matter at such a juncture. This could be very beneficial for you guys and the community, and it looks like you guys are going in the right direction. I dig it. Thanks for what you've shared so far, and even if you guys want to dig through it yourself don't be afraid to ask questions. A lot of us really do know more about this stuff than anyone should.

[Jimmy]

Some observations about some things you should maybe keep an eye out for:

Shadow Warrior Stuff:

Spoiler

The Shadow Warrior yin-yang logo on the box/in the PSD has been fudged around a bit and is of really questionable quality. In the final image it's hard to tell, especially on the printed box. Wang's head covers up the fudging, but having a high quality (this one looks like it's been compressed) and proper looking yin-yang logo would be great. Here's what it should look like.

Having this version of Lo Wang would be cool too. Potentially some of these concept arts were also digitized and never used. Notice some of them are alternate versions of poses we're all familiar with (and others are new altogether.)

Here are the highest quality versions of the SW Renders we have. There could be more or ones in higher quality. Or you might actually find the models!

I understand 3D Realms did not produce Wanton Destruction, but they very may well have the assets used on the box packed away somewhere.

It was once rumoured Twin Dragon had music, if you find a copy of Twin Dragon archived somewhere, it would be worth comparing to the released version.

We have a snapshot of a WIP build of Deadly Kiss and are actively trying to gather all the content we can, if you guys come across anything Deadly Kiss related (seriously anything, no one knows what the storyline is about) please get into contact with Hendricks. I imagine he's already contacted you, actually.

Anyone who has followed the development of this game/dug into pre-release materials knows that there could literally be drastic changes from one day to the next. I would bet money every single snapshot you have has something significant/interesting compared to other ones.

Duke Nukem 3D Stuff:

Spoiler

Here are the highest quality Duke Nukem 3D Renders we have. Once again, you might find them in higher quality or the models themselves.

There was cut content from Sunstorm Interactive's Caribbean addon (for example this enemy and this version of the Assault Trooper). Any archived copy of the addon could potentially be significant.

A better copy of the Duke Nukem 3D box art. What we got for the XBox Live Arcade version (and later ported over to Megaton) is of inferior quality. It's been photoshopped and cropped. Any alternate version you find could be better than what we have.

As I've mentioned before, there's potentially voxels out there meant for the Plutonium Pak or Atomic Edition or perhaps a patch after that. As evidenced by the screenshot, they did exist. Dirk says they're from Duke Nukem Forever, but that is surely a mistake. The med-kit voxel is in Shadow Warrior's files. DNF was announced in April of 1997, and at that time was on the Quake engine. Shadow Warrior was released in May. There's always been a rumour that 3DR was working on making Duke3D as technologically advanced as SW and Blood (likely additions to the engine like SW's advanced Sector-Over-Sector and voxels.) It's likely this was abandoned in favour of kicking PlutPak/Atomic Edition out the door and focusing on Duke Nukem Forever.

This is an extremely rare Duke3D box prototype. 3D Realms might not have even had a copy.

Any snapshot of Total Meltdown or Duke 64 you find could also be significant, as it's known that both have had some cut content.

Anyone who has followed the development of this game/dug into pre-release materials knows that there could literally be drastic changes from one day to the next. I would bet money every single snapshot you have has something significant/interesting compared to other ones.

Other Stuff:

Spoiler

There was a Duke Nukem sidescroller called Duke Nukem Forever that was completely unrelated to the infamous title. It was developed around 1996 and appears to use LameDuke's art style.

There was an unfinished VGA version of Monster Bash.

There's plenty of other stuff I could mention, but these seemed more obscure to me. I might come up with some more and add them in another post. Happy hunting.