Original Grand Theft Auto going 3D, developed by original co-programmer

YoYo Games head of development Michael Dailly is recreating the original top-down Grand Theft Auto that he co-developed with David Jones in 1997, and putting it in 3D.

The game is being created with the GameMaker developer package, using map data from the original as a 2D grid with 1d arrays.

There’s no date for when the web browser-based game will be available for people to play, but when the public first gets to play it, it “probably” won’t have maps or textures yet.

Dailly is posting pics of the game on his Twitter account as it gets worked on; you can find it here.