![]() On April 24, 3DRealms hires Matt Wood as the first full-time mapper, and he starts creating intense environments. It runs so smoothly, people think it was a pre-rendered AVI. In late April, the first public Prey demo is unveiled at CGDC (the Computer Game Developer's Conference) in San Jose. According to it, the development team had been "stalling", all screenshots had been "faked with 3D Studio by Scott McCabe and Allen Dilling", and the Prey engine "could only show polygons, and was struggling at that too". On April 1, a joke update, purportedly by Paul Schuytema, is published. 1997: On January 9, 3DRealms files a trademark application for the name Talon Brave. ![]() In November, two possible names for the main character are proposed: Ravin Brave and Justice Black Claw. The new engine is made to run under 3Dfx with 16 bit art and colored lighting, while the game gets converted to Paul Schuytema throws out all the old Prey stuff and starts rewriting the Prey story. On October 21, 3DRealms reveals the arrival of Paul Schuytema as the new project leader for Prey. In August, a few members of the Prey team leave the company. On July 19, a moratorium on new screenshots is put in place, as the engine is being rewritten. At the same time he rewrites "Preditor", the in-house editor William Scarboro rewrites the engine again, specifically for hardware (3Dfx first). About mid year, the Prey team decides to support hardware acceleration only. More Prey screenshots are released in the Duke Nukem 3D CD. The team still isn't happy with the engine, because the lighting "just isn't quite right". On May 10, support for 3D acceleration is implemented and the first "high resolution" (meaning 640x480) screenshot is released. Work continues on the MS-DOS and Windows 95 versions of the editor. On April 5, the team publishes a prank screenshot where the engine is touted to reach "258 frames per second on a 486". On March 8, network code is implemented into the first iteration of the Prey engine. Tom Hall works on his own Prey Bible, where the character is simply named Prey of Earth.
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