14 DAY TRIAL // You'll never believe what today's Quake Con keynote revealed. According to well known gaming site Kotaku.com, folks over at id Software announced they have a team of developers carrying out work on a new Quake - a sort of a smaller project. Quake Zero is the name, and shooting will be the game, as you might have already imagined, directly through your web-browser.
According to the respective site... "QZ will be a free web-based version of Quake 3 multiplayer." Todd Hollenshead revealed to Kotaku that "they decided to kick off this project for several reasons. First and foremost, id hated to see their game, once quite popular for online matches, losing its prominence in the online gaming scene, this will allow virtually anyone with a computer to play matches of their games.
Hollenshead said id also wanted to dip their toe in in-game advertising, and that this seemed like the best way to approach it," the respective piece reads. They also say ads should be running on the web page during Quake Zero gameplay.
Quake III Arena was specifically designed for multiplayer. It used (probably still does) a client-server architecture that requires all players clients to connect to a single server. Q3A's focus on multiplayer gameplay spawned a vivid community similar to Quakeworld, that is still active to this day, as I found up on Wikipedia.
Quake III Arena's multiplayer-focused development led to it developing a large community of competitive players and just as its predecessors in the series, it was used extensively in professional electronic sports tournaments. In competitive Quake III Arena, there are two distinct disciplines, commonly known as "rulesets".
Even though id Software hasn't revealed much for the moment, a Quake III running directly from your web browser is announcement enough if you ask me. All you have to do is stick around for any possible updates on Quake Zero, and make sure you hear everything from us first.