Is it possible to use the engine for development without installing any games?

For Quake 3 you have to take and modify the existing code instead of just importing headers and calling Quake 3 functions. I wrote some suggestions for creating new games at Ioquake3: Where do I get started? (dev) and creating Quake 3 mods (requires install Quake III Arena) at Learning quake3 modding.

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