Hi Godot folks, Danny here from the Diablo 3D team. We’ve rebuilt Tristram and the first Cathedral level of the original Diablo as a first-person game in Godot 4, and the free demo is out.

A few Godot notes:

• The original level generator is ported to GDScript and outputs a 2D tile grid; a builder turns it into 3D walls, arches and vaulted ceilings at 1 tile = 2 m, so every seed is a new walkable dungeon.
• All game rules live in JSON tables generated from the original data by a Python pipeline; GDScript only implements the formulas.
• The UI is laid out in the original 640x480 coordinates and scaled by one factor, which made ultrawide and 4K support almost free.
• Strict typing (Variant-inference warnings treated as errors) caught a lot of bugs early.

What’s in the demo:

• Tristram rebuilt in 3D tile for tile from the original town map, with all the townsfolk and their original lines and voices
• Cathedral level 1, laid out by a port of the original level generator (a new layout every descent)
• The original combat, monster and item rules (to-hit, crits, block, durability, affixes)
• Warrior, Rogue and Sorcerer: sword and shield, hold-to-draw bow, Firebolt, Charged Bolt, Inferno
• The 1996 interface layout (plus an optional Modern skin), ultrawide up to 5120x1440

It’s free for Windows (1.83 GB, Vulkan GPU with 6 GB+ VRAM). Download and screenshots: diablo3d.com

Happy to answer questions about any of it. Feedback on performance is especially welcome.

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man I'm looking forward to my show tonight. I really wish I had more than 23 minutes a week to do this sort of thing.

@zeborah I have reread this book a bazillion times and the parody scenes of Anton Chekhov plays STILL reliably make me laugh aloud.

To what extent is this project AI-assisted/generated?

What’s the plan for the full release? Will it be open-source?

Ha, fair enough, music is always going to split people. On the spec: it’s not really a target so much as where the demo landed. Every sprite in the original became a full 3D model with high-res textures, and none of it has had an optimisation pass yet, so we quoted a safe 6 GB rather than a hopeful number. The Low preset plus a lower fullscreen render resolution (FSR 1 upscaled) already helps, and getting the texture budget down is one of the first things we want to tackle. If you have a lower-end card and give it a go, numbers would be really useful.

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Spotify is coming to United Airlines seatbacks — with help from Starlink https://www.theverge.com/transportation/1026472/united-seatback-spotify-app-starlink-wifi

@SonnyBonds ok - you could run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next via Niko1221/Strata with no issue imo. the IQ3_S model even, with 256k context. strata is pretty good at fitting the VRAM load to what's available. you have 4GB VRAM less than me, but that should not make a big difference in practice. you should see decent token rates.

since firefox & vscode also need VRAM, you need to open those first before you run strata or it will take everything. even better: share over network, use from laptop.

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Torchlight 2 got its first new beta patch in over 9 years, and it adds #SteamDeck support:

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more of the best song ever and Romanian national anthem, this version was apparently the hit in italy first and o-zone and this were #1 and #2 in germany

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhuTaD-B4qs

Just from a production standpoint I love how they put this together
https://youtu.be/4vkqSigZeDI

bitesize pixel story-driven vertical-scrolling action puzzle

You know, I bet that if I watched "Hazbin Hotel", I would really like it.

*Continues not watching Hazbin Hotel*

@carnage4life

Maybe next time don't be fascist assholes and criminals quite so much, huh Ron?