What I don't like is to see claims like "no AI slop"
And yet it's riddled with emdashes and language "by hand"
Seeing the skills of the writer, he definitely should be able to, but then I don't understand the claim.
> If this sounds unreasonable to you, that is because it is.
Those listed, are tame. I don't understand this kind of faux modesty.
> My goal was to build a complete, shippable first-person shooter using techniques that were common in the early 90s
Goes on to explain how they used 3D blender...which wasn't available until 1998.
A vanity cat project being tailored and submitted for nostalgia clickbait. I don't think there's anything useful to take away from this other than some color shade selection ideas.
In the early 90s, there was enough money in this kind of software that you could have hired a specialist 3D artist to use the software that was available at the time, e.g. LightWave 3D. When it's only a single-person project, I think it's reasonable to stick with what you know.
You conveniently left out the second part of that sentence:
> … modern compiler and a platform abstraction layer.
The author very explicitly laid out their constraints in a bulleted list right below; I think calling this nostalgia clickbait is infelicitous at best.