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Half-Life: Alyx is a 2020 virtual reality (VR) first-person shooter game developed and published by Valve. It was released for Windows and Linux, with support for most PC-compatible VR headsets. Players control Alyx Vance on a mission to seize a superweapon belonging to the alien Combine before the events of Half-Life 2.
Plans for a successor to the original Source engine began following the release of Half-Life 2: Episode Two in 2007. [1] [2] The first engine tech demo was created in 2010 by remaking a map from Left 4 Dead 2. [2]
They built prototypes using their various intellectual properties such as Portal, and found that Half-Life best suited VR. [73] Their flagship VR game, Half-Life: Alyx, entered production using Valve's new Source 2 engine in 2016, [74] with the largest team in Valve's history, including members of Campo Santo, a studio Valve acquired in 2018 ...
A version of the software for Valve's Source 2 engine, known as Source 2 Filmmaker, was released on May 15, 2020, alongside other development tools for Half-Life: Alyx. [26] In February 2023, Facepunch announced they were producing their own successor to SFM due to compatibility issues with their own game platform, Sandbox. [27]
Half-Life VR may refer to: Half-Life Alyx, 2020 video game; Half-Life VR but the AI Is Self-Aware This page was last edited on 8 October 2024, at 14:49 (UTC). ...
Dario Casali, a designer at Valve who has worked on all Half-Life games, remarked in an interview that during development on Half-Life: Alyx he attempted to play the entirety of the original Half-Life again for research, but after five hours decided to play Black Mesa instead, reasoning it was a much more enjoyable product. [76]
The Source 2006 branch was the term used for Valve's games using technology that culminated with the release of Half-Life 2: Episode One. HDR rendering and color correction were first implemented in 2005 using Day of Defeat: Source , which required the engine's shaders to be rewritten. [ 7 ]
While VR hardware and games grew modestly for the remainder of the 2010s, Half-Life: Alyx, a full VR game developed by Valve and released in 2020, was considered the killer application for VR games. The advent of VR in gaming marks a significant milestone in the quest for fully immersive digital experiences.