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Mods can be both useful to players and a means of self-expression. [4] Three motivations have been identified by Olli Sotamaa for fans to create mods: to patch the game, to express themselves, and to get a foot in the door of the video game industry. [4] It has been noted that these motivations encompass intrinsic and extrinsic motivations. [30]
Ricochet – An official Half-Life mod by Valve. It was released on November 1, 2000, [9] and included in Half-Life 's version 1.1.1.0 update, released on June 12, 2002. [10] Ports of the game to OS X and Linux were released through Steam on August 1, 2013. [11] Science and Industry – A team-based multiplayer mod in which players take the ...
[1] Black Mesa - A third-party recreation of Half-Life (1998) that was made in response to the release of Half-Life: Source (2004), a port of the original game to the Source engine. [2] Black Mesa originally released as a free mod in September 2012, and later had a full commercial release on Steam in March 2020. [3] [4]
Using the keyboard and mouse, players move their wizards around a virtual world, directing armies and casting spells to eliminate their opponents. A player's wizard defeats an opponent by desecrating his or her altar through the magical "sacrifice" of a friendly unit. [4] In Sacrifice, players control their character from a third-person ...
A tragedy is an event of great loss, usually of human life. Such an event is said to be tragic. Traditionally, the event would require "some element of moral failure, some flaw in character, or some extraordinary combination of elements" [1] to be tragic. Not every death is considered a tragedy.
During the 1900 Big Game between the California Golden Bears and the Stanford Cardinal American football teams, a large crowd of people who did not want to pay the $1 (equivalent to $37 in 2023) admission fee gathered upon the roof of a glass blowing factory to watch for free. The roof then collapsed, severing fuel pipes and causing at least ...
One marked difference between English renaissance tragedies and the classics that inspired them was the use and popularity of violence and murder on stage. [1] Select exemplary (non-Shakespearean) Elizabethan and Jacobean tragedies: [7] The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd; The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe; Tamburlaine by Christopher Marlowe
A methane gas explosion at the St. Helena gold mine severed the cable of a double-deck elevator, causing it to fall 1.4 kilometers to the bottom of the mine shaft, killing all 52 people on board. 10 others who were not in the elevator were killed in the explosion. [104] [105] Welkom, South Africa: 31 27 March 1980