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Was the last time I saw the nuke floor except for the odd time I’d drive by the offices, and go in the parking lot for old times sake. You see, these offices were only about 7 miles from my house, and there were a few businesses near here that I made use of, so I would have a legitimate reason to go over this way. What was left of 3D Realms finally vacated the building in early 2011 somewhere. The last time I can recall doing that was November 7, 2010, when I had to pick up something, and we took a couple of pictures, ones I called “Last Call”. I did come back from time to time as my friends Bryan & Steve were still hanging on there, and for whatever reason I needed to see ’em it was just easier to go there. It took me awhile to come to grips with that, it took Gearbox and the release of DNF I think – I wrote about that here. Here’s that video from May 9, 2009:Īfter I was moved out of the 3D Realms offices, I didn’t come back, mostly due to the fact that the separation was very painful. By the time the office was shutting down, she mostly had grown out of that (as she had just turned 4), but I convinced her to do it again, and I videoed it because I knew I’d want to enjoy that memory later once the pain of the closing passed. Whenever she came to pick up daddy from work, or visit or whatever, she’d run around the circle quite a few times. She loved – I MEAN LOVED to run around the nuke logo. One great memory I have of the logo floor is my daughter who was born after we moved in running around on it. You’d be destroying it yourself if you tried. All the glue to keep them together was extensive, pulling them apart would break the majority of the tiles. You can see how many small pieces there were. Removing it off the floor would be impossible without damaging it so severely, you might as well just leave it there, and build a brand new one. Getting it together and looking smooth on the floor took a lot, and it was always intended to just “be there”. If you look at the third picture at the top of the page, you can see all the coordinates and tile work that was done to put it together. I inquired about it, and was told that the floor couldn’t be picked up. Since the company would eventually vacate the offices, the floor was unlikely to survive through the next tenant, whoever that might be. Once the reality of that set in, and we started prepping the company for shutdown, I started wondering what the heck would happen to the floor.

You’ve all seen the known picture many times before, I’ll post this alternate take. But the circle was there, and on May 8th, the last day that 3DR existed as a dev studio, we took a fairly famous picture of the entire company (minus one guy who was out of the country at the time).

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Single worst moment of my entire professional life – I still don’t like that event, never will. Around the circle is where we held the meeting led by George Broussard & Brian Hook telling us that 3DR was closing down. It was a central point where folks would congregate, and even play hackeysack on it! Everyone loved it.įlash forward to May 6, 2009. Everyone was impressed by the lobby – that logo was really impressive. From UPS drivers, to business people, to vendors, even to personal friends. The giant Duke Nukem logo on the floor was something that was always a discussion point. Here’s a picture of the final product, which the total costs of construction were over $10,000 – I asked for this article, but the guy who handled that couldn’t remember the exact price, but did say it was over $10,000. Here’s a few pictures of it being put down. It was a tile floor with the Duke Nukem “nuke” logo laid out in small tile squares.

It was a giant Nuke logo on the lobby floor right inside the door. However, after a few trips to the new place to see how construction was going, I found myself seriously impressed with what I saw coming together. At first I didn’t think much was going to come of it. I liked both of the places I worked at, but insofar as the actual OFFICES go, the best thing about either of them was the lobby floor in the second building. The first one from 1992-2002, and then the second from Nov 2002 to May 2009. I worked at two different offices during my time there. I was fiercely loyal for any number of reasons, one of which is the way the owners treated me during my time there. Those who know me know I worked for Apogee/3D Realms for over 16 years (from 1992-2009).