Our favorite four-letter word was never a foregone conclusion. WASD could just has easily been ESDF.
after winning the first-ever nationwide Quake tournament in 1997. And when he won that tournament, defeating Tom"Entropy" Kimzey on Castle of the Damned, his right hand was on a mouse, and his left hand was perched over the four keys we now consider synonymous with PC gaming. But even then, not everyone played that way.
Another legend, Quake programmer John Carmack, took note. “Even when I was hanging out with Carmack, wherever, at E3, random people would come up and he would hear them asking me what my configuration was,” says Fong. “So he ended up building a Thresh stock config into Quake 2.” Valve engineer Yahn Bernier checked Half-Life's original config file for us and confirmed it included WASD."I remember finalizing this file during the lead up to shipping HL1 but don’t recall specifics about when WASD was settled on or really why. We probably carried it forward from Quake1…" he wrote in an email.
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