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NickMeller2, November 11, 2014-22: 30
The history of Valve, part 1
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Today we will talk about an outstanding wonderful company in the gaming and PC industry — Valve.
What is the Steam service worth, its own SteamOS operating system based on Linux and a series of Half Life games!
But about everything in order, friends.
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The founders of the company are Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington.
Separately, I want to talk about the first of them: Gabe worked for a long time at Microsoft on the Windows operating system, and then on the game Doom, which, in fact, inspired him to create games in the future.
He is still the CEO of Valve .
And in 1996, he and his friend Michael co founded Valve.
As Newell later said in an interview, they thought about the name of the company for a long time, tried to visualize it and eventually came to the conclusion that the valve is the best fit After the company was founded, they immediately started developing games.
First of all, they bought a license for the Quake engine, which at that time was famous for its achievements in 3D graphics.
The engine was heavily modified and was named GoldSCR.
Subsequently, Half Life games were developed on this engine .
Development of the game Half Life Half life was an innovative game in the genre of fps (first person shooter).
It was famous for the advanced artificial intelligence of the enemy, as well as the presence of in game scenes (there are no so called QTE scenes in the game and all actions took place right during the game).
The game was also famous for its plot.
For that time, the plot was generally something brilliant and in half of the games it was simply absent.
Professional screenwriter and science fiction writer Doug Lombardi was invited to write it.
Doug Lombardi.
The main screenwriter of Valve, the game was presented at the E3 exhibition in 1997, and the game literally blew up the audience.
In theory, the game was supposed to be presented in 1997, but it was presented a year later — on October 31, 1998 — not so long ago it celebrated its 15th anniversary.
Screenshots of the alpha Hallf Life.
Donot be surprised: at that time, the graphics were awesome.
The year before last, this alpha was merged and the fact that it can be run on Q4A is interesting (true, the textures will not be ice at all :(
Cover of the game Half Life You have to play as a 27 year old physicist Gordon Freeman from the Black Mesa laboratory and participate in an experiment that can change this world.
Next, I will not say anything to avoid spoilers and I want to advise you to play this game yourself — you will get a lot of fun, despite the age of the game.
I personally passed it twice at a high level of difficulty .
Screenshots of the release version of Half Life Later, Gearbox released 3 story modifications for this game: half life blue shift, half life Opposing Forse and, exclusive for ps2, Decay .
The game Half Life has gathered a large army of fans, and there are still conversations about this game.
Often, it takes the first places in the ratings of TOP games.
There are many ports of this game, for example, on the Quake, Source engines (the official port from Valve), Doom (this port works even on Symbian) and development is underway on the Unity engine to port it to mobile devices.
At the moment, the most ambitious project is Half Life Pocket, which is being developed by Alexey Ivanchukov.
Great steps have already been taken in this matter: * has been written.bsp loader that allows you to load textures and maps from the original Half Life (instead of recompiling them for Unity).
Port on the Doom engine
A port based on the Quake engine.
Screenshot from Quake4android
Port to Unity (HL Pocket ) Of course, Gabe Newell collected a lot of profit with Half Life.
To help him, he was able to gather a good team of game and software developers — this was required for two further ambitious projects: Steam and Half Life 2.
Here, in the year 2000, we will finish the first part of the article about Valve.
The next part of the article will be released very soon and we will talk about the development of the Steam project and the continuation of the famous Half Life series.
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grisha2055, November 12, 2014-23: 40 (...)
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"...bought a license for the Quake engine", fix it.
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grisha2055, November 12, 2014-23: 42 (...)
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"... this alpha was leaked", also fix it.
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grisha2055, November 12, 2014-23: 42 (...)
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Yes, there are a lot of double spaces!
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NickMeller2, November 12, 2014-23: 47 (...)
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Are double spaces fatal?
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Senpai11, November 14, 2014-00: 22 (...)
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Yes)
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Senpai11, November 14, 2014-11: 00 (...)
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There are even triple spaces.
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NickMeller2, November 12, 2014-23: 56 (...)
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I fixed everything I noticed.
Is it okay?
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grisha2055, November 13, 2014-00: 42 (...)
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I think so.
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TARANS_ ★★6, 13 November 2014 - 15: 49 (...)
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oh that's it
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aqwsderf ★6, 13 November 2014-17: 35 (...)
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for Quake engines, Source
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NickMeller2, November 13, 2014-17: 55 (...)
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Fixed it.
My keyboard does not know the word source it was automatically corrected to sourse
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ProMax, May 3, 2015-20: 29 (...)
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By the way, the new Source used Havok as the 2nd engine.
If anyone does not know, now Valve has made a new Source 2 engine and the game Half Life 2 Episode 3 (Half Life 3).And Valve is also planning to make a 4 episode, but this will be the end of all Half Life games.
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Nk Name, November 13, 2014-17: 38 (...)
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Black Mesa and participate in the fun - - - fix it
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NickMeller2, November 13, 2014-17: 54 (...)
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I donot understand google…
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Rost, November 17, 2014-13: 09 (...)
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What about the second part?
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NickMeller2, November 17, 2014-15: 39 (...)
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I wanted to write on the 16th, for the 10th anniversary, but it didnot work out because of passing exams: (
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NickMeller2, November 17, 2014-15: 40 (...)
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*half life 2 anniversary
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Subsequently, Half Life games were developed on this engine.
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