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Half-Life is a first-person shooter that requires the player to perform combat tasks and puzzle solving to advance through the game. Unlike most first-person shooters at the time, which relied on cut-scene intermissions to detail their plotlines, Half-Life ' s story is told mostly using scripted sequences (bar one short cutscene), keeping the player in control of the first-person viewpoint.
Proprietary, GPL-3.0-or-later (version 1 [4] and 2 [5]) Cross-platform, compatible with OpenGL, OpenAL, and Newton Game Dynamics libraries; defining features include ability for advanced object interaction via use of Newton's physics code
When it came down to show Half-Life 2 for the first time at E3, it was part of our internal communication to refer to the "Source" engine vs. the "Goldsource" engine, and the name stuck. Source was developed part-by-part from this fork onwards, slowly replacing GoldSrc in Valve's internal projects [ 3 ] and, in part, explaining the reasons ...
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The game was followed up with two expansions, Half-Life: Opposing Force and Half-Life: Blue Shift, both of which ran GoldSrc and were developed by Gearbox Software. [9] [10] Half-Life: Decay, an expansion pack for Half-Life only released on PlayStation 2, was released in 2001 alongside Half-Life 's debut on the platform. [11]
Wreden started developing video games in 2009. [1] He created The Stanley Parable in 2011, as a modification for Valve Corporation's game Half-Life 2. The mod itself received attention for its approach to storytelling and use of the video game medium. [2] [3] In 2013, he remade and expanded it into a standalone title with co-developer William Pugh.
It was used in the Half-Life series, and gave rise to the Source engine. The Xash3D projects, as well as the FreeHL and FreeCS ports, [6] use Quake source code in part to recreate this engine, even with a wrapper for running the game. [7] [8] DarkPlaces – A significantly modified engine used in several standalone games and Quake mods.
Sven Co-op is a co-op variation of the 1998 first-person shooter Half-Life.The game, initially released as a mod in January 1999, and created by Daniel "Sven Viking" Fearon, enables players to play together on online servers to complete levels, many of which are based on the Half-Life universe but include other genres.