you could have chosen a far worse codebase than Quake from the 90s. Quake was pretty clean in comparison. Sensible use of macros for doing things. A type system that made sense.

Descent on the other hand...

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ethin 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I mean... It's ugly from a modern standpoint. Zero encapsulation to speak of. Global state everywhere. But doing the modifications I did were pretty easy all things considered. So yeah, the code is clean, if "ugly" when viewed from a modern standpoint. It was definitely fun to do either way! Idk what other changes I'll make, we'll see. Especially since I don't know the architecture very well yet

	▲	reactordev an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Of course! Global state IS game state! It definitely was an amazing codebase for the time. You didn’t need to get hung up on architecture because it is very singular… it’s just a level, you, and the entities that were created when the level loaded. There’s no pre-caching, no virtual textures, no shaders (there are materials for later quake 3), it’s just pure load -> set -> loop. The “client” renders, the “server” has the state.