SHADOW WARRIOR DEVELOPMENT AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 1997 [ Main Shadow Warrior Page ] Update: 10/01/97 Effective immediately, there will be no further Shadow Warrior Development updates. The game is done, and as such, development updates are no longer relevant. These pages will remain here however so you can read the old ones. Any new Shadow Warrior news will be on our Apogee / 3D Realms News Page.
Update: 09/23/97

All direct orders of Shadow Warrior Registered completed shipment on Wednesday the 17th of September. They should be in your hands by now, or will be shortly.

In other news, Shadow Warrior is being ported to the Macintosh, by the same people (but not the same company) that did the Duke Nukem 3D Atomic port. No date is set yet, but when we hear something, we'll let you know. There's a short news blurb about this port here.
Update: 09/15/97

We have received our shipment of registered Shadow Warrior CD's, and we have begun shipping them. We expect it will take about a week to ship all the pre-orders, and I will inform the net as to when they have all shipped out.

Joe Siegler

Below are some pictures of the actual CD itself. The box you see here is a prototype as is not 100% exactly what you will see on the store shelf, but it's close. As with Duke Nukem 3D, direct sales of the game will get the CD, but not the box. Click on any of the pictures for a larger version of that image.

Image #1: The box and the CD jewel case...

Image #2: The Jewel Case opened, showing the manual and the CD itself.

Image #3: A Closeup of the CD-ROM itself.

Update: 09/11/97

As you should have seen by now, the shareware episode of v1.2 has been released. If you haven't picked it up yet, you can do so here. Also, the registered version has been in GT's hands for some time now, and we expect to take delivery of our consignment of registered CD's for direct orders on Friday the 12th. I'm also told that the retail stores will have their copies shipped from GT on Monday the 15th. I'd say they should physically be on store shelves by the end of next week. Keep your eyes peeled. Once we physically have copies in house, I will post another update letting you know that, too.

There are three registered versions of Shadow Warrior. The most common one is the "Regular" one, and that's what we will be selling direct, and the bulk of the stores will sell. The second one is the "Parental Lock" version, and that's very similar to the version of Duke Nukem Atomic that WalMart sold. It has the forced parental lock version, that won't turn off no matter what you do to it. The third is the "UK Restricted" version. This one has the shurikens replaced with darts (that's the only change). Apparently someone went nuts over in the UK in the 70's and starting killing people with shurikens after seeing a lot of bad B Kung-Fu movies, so you now can't depict a shuriken there. We had to change the game to do this in order to be able to sell it there at all. Sorry about that, UK'ers. On the positive site, we will be making patches available on our site that you can download and apply to both the Parental Lock version and the UK Restricted version that will turn them back into the regular version.

Also, I'm told that a 3DFX patch could be released online in a couple of weeks. More info on that if and when it happens.

Joe Siegler

Update: 08/22/97

It's been awhile since the last Shadow Warrior update, but with good reason. The team has been busy spending their time finishing the game, and bringing you the news you want to hear.

IT'S DONE!

The registered version has been completed. After a final exhaustive night of testing on August the 21st, the game was declared "finished" by producer George Broussard around midnight.

What you see here is a picture of Joe Siegler, the person at 3D Realms who makes the CD masters for us. Joe is holding the Fedex box that contains all the copies of the masters that he burned for GT Interactive, the distributor. The game will be in GT's hands on Saturday, and then they can begin the process of duplicating the CD's, putting together the manuals, and all that. We are currently looking at mid September for them to actually be in the stores, unless something crops up at the last second. We don't have a precise date yet as to when they'll be in the stores (or when we'll have the direct order shipments ready), but once we get a more precise date, we will be posting it here.

An updated shareware episode will be made available for download shortly as well (probably within the next 7 to 10 days).

In order to keep loading time to a minimum, only the current month's entries will be on this page. You can get older months pages via this index.

1. August/September 1997
2. July 1997
3. June 1997
4. April & May 1997
5. March 1997
6. January & February 1997
7. December 1996
8. November 1996
9. October 1996
10. September 1996
11. August 1996
12. July 1996
13. June 1996
14. May 1996
15. April 1996
16. March 1996

The older updates are still being worked on. When they're converted, they'll appear here again.

Shadow Warrior Release Day!
George Broussard (sitting) & Scott Miller chatting on Undernet's #SWarrior Channel the day of Shadow Warrior's Release.