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I've written an article called "Alone Together in the Quake Brutalist Jam" for Eteo Archetypes, a video game world design website / newsletter run by Gregorios Kythreotis and Emma Kent.My article is about Quake Brutalist Jam 3, maybe the most popular Quake-related thing in recent memory -- with more downloads than all the previous installments combined, attention from big YouTubers, and coverage from big mainstream newspapers like The Guardian.In the article I begin with Quake's haunted 1996 origins that burned out many of the core staff at id Software, before diving into the 2026 mod's design and weaving in the...