Almost as big an announcement as Rage was the second team and Quake Arena project. How does that impact on what you do, first of all, since it' s a different area of technology?

With Quake Zero, the foundation there is Quake 3, but what we' re doing is we have an internal team - a second team - that' s seeded with people who are id veterans, and then we' re hiring the best and the brightest minds to join that team, making sure that they' re id quality, and also that they have the id state of mind about the way they work, and we' re being very careful about who we choose, but generally it' s not difficult for us to hire because a lot of people want to come work for id.

We' re building that team up and as far as the technology goes it' s Quake 3, but it' s modified to have a front-end in a web-browser where you launch the game. And they' ve already done a lot of the architectural work - the way the game loads - where it' s primarily just shifting the file structures and everything, but the game loads very very quickly, so basically you' ve never played it on a given machine, you can go to the web-browser, click ' play' and almost instantly get into a game.

Though it is loading to your machine in the background, there' s not going to be a lot of wait time or an install process and everything. The idea is people can quickly jump into a game - you know, they change computers at work and they want to jump in, there' s not a lot of wait time and messing around with installing and loading and those typical PC headaches. But that' s primarily the web front-end and file structure and loading and everything - that' s where a lot of the work is.

We' re going to do some enhancements, but we' re not rewriting the game trying to bring it up to id Tech 5 quality or anything.

That' s obviously a very new idea, having a fully functional FPS game running in a web-browser. I was wondering whether that' s something that will become -

Well it' ll be launched from a web browser. It' s not going to be written in Java or really running in the web browser.

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