[INQ] Valve hires new Half-Life dev - Overclock.net

SZayat · 07-20-08

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquir...-dev-kills-mod

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VALVE SOFTWARE is a company that can seemingly do no wrong in the eyes of its many, many adoring fans.

So when it comes to inadvertently killing off one of the most popular Half-Life mod collections ever created, gamers are even now looking on the bright side.

Adam Foster is the maker of the 'Minerva' mod for Half-Life 2, a series of levels which charts an alternate storyline through Valve's epic universe. Available to download through Steam, it's won critical acclaim for its high production values and innovative gameplay.

But that work is now on hold because Valve has hired Adam to work on the next installment of the commercial Half-Life franchise, 'Episode 3', due out next year. He'll be designing fiendish maps, it seems, for the boys in Seattle.

Valve has a history of hiring talented developers from its community. Counter Strike, Day of Defeat and Left 4 Dead have all become Valve properties off the back of successful independent mod releases.

Adam says, "I seriously suspect this isn't the end for this particular chain of experiments in designing single-player Half-Life 2 maps", but that "Who knows " when Minerva would actually return.

With a nice fat cheque signing from Valve and a very tidy programmer's salary - Gabe Newell's company is one of the most lucratively run development houses around - we suspect the answer for Adam is really "Who cares?" µ

reberto · 07-20-08

Wow, way to have one of the most misleading titles EVER. Valve hired him to work on HL2: EP3, and he is obviousally putting a lot of work into it so that he doesn't have time to work on the mod that he gets paid nothing to work on.

The Mad Mule · 07-20-08

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Originally Posted by reberto

Wow, way to have one of the most misleading titles EVER. Valve hired him to work on HL2: EP3, and he is obviousally putting a lot of work into it so that he doesn't have time to work on the mod that he gets paid nothing to work on.

Yeah really. It was the dude's choice to work for them, so it's not like Valve had this agenda to intentionally derail all of his time and effort from the mod.

DarkNite · 07-20-08

Yeah, agree, they didnt kill off the mod. That guy is lucky

XaNe · 07-20-08

Well he is going to make HL2:Ep3 Awesome though.

Fkyx · 07-20-08

I think gamers will be even happier to play EP3 with maps designed by him, than his mod.

Puscifer · 07-20-08

Yeah seriously misleading. When episode 3 is finsihed I'm sure he'll get back to working on the mod again, and I don't know about you but I wanna play episode 3 way more than I wanna play the mod.

OmegaNemesis28 · 07-20-08

Wow - change the god damn title PLEASE lol

I was like WTH when I read the title, but once I read the article - it was good news, not bad.

Delphi · 07-20-08

Actually this is better because once he is done ep3 he will have lots more experience in the other aspects of creating a game so with any luck his mod will be better then it was going to be.

justarealguy · 07-20-08

Yeah lol, I got scared.

Good news, not bad. Please modify the title accordingly.

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