When I started working at Valve, Half-Life was almost finished. If this was indeed written right as we shipped the game, then I would not be surprised if it conflicts with things I’ve said in decades since.īut the guy writing this little article was there, and his memory is much better than the old guy writing this preface, so I’d be inclined to believe him over me. It might have been published somewhere (perhaps near Geoff Keighley’s piece on The Last Hours of Half-Life), but if so, it was probably edited, and there might be some value in the unedited brain dump. The title of this file was 'CGDCTALK,' but I don’t remember ever giving a talk anywhere until years later, after the success of Half-Life 2. 9, 1998, and I am not 'l33t' enough to know how to fake that sort of thing. I do believe it, because the file’s creation date is indeed Nov. Author’s note: Another file from the same disk with the Nihilanth sketches, with this one, if it is to believed, written the day after we shipped Half-Life.

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