[forrestthewoods]

There was at least one FRP fan on the team, but it was not a meaningful source of inspiration.

IIRC the motivating goals were:

    * Client-server architecture (not p2p)
    * gracefully degrade under constrained bandwidth
    * replay support

The in-game replay was a by-product we simply thought was cool and novel. I’ve yet to see anything else like it!

The system also served as the basis for save/load. I think if you had a full replay you could resume from any point. Pretty sure we shipped that feature, although it’s been so long I forget what shipped and what was merely an idea!

[SXX]

Yeah you certainly shipped it. You can load into replay from any moment :-)