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The 3D Software Rendering Technology of 1998's Thief: The Dark Project (2019)


In 1998 Looking Glass Studios released the stealth game Thief: The Dark Project. This was just as 3D hardware acceleration was taking off, so due to the development cycle it didn't use hardware acceleration; it was a purely software-rendered game.

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