nanoUFO@sh.itjust.worksM to Games@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 11 months agoValve accidentally compiled and pushed earliest Left 4 Dead prototype called "Terror Strike" into the latest CS 1.6 update and community figured out how to play it.twitter.comexternal-linkmessage-square49fedilinkarrow-up1222arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up1219arrow-down1external-linkValve accidentally compiled and pushed earliest Left 4 Dead prototype called "Terror Strike" into the latest CS 1.6 update and community figured out how to play it.twitter.comnanoUFO@sh.itjust.worksM to Games@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square49fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareKraivo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·11 months agoU mean a company that is famous for making tools and hiring devs with their ideas and helping them to make games does what they are actually good at? Look at it this way: CS is the mod to Half-life Portal is the college project or some sort of prototype (I don’t remember correctly) L4d is the mod to cs Dota is the mod to war3 Dota underlords is same Their only new in house game in past ten years is actually Artifact and it got bullied by media instead of actually giving a good feedback. So, they just do what they always did - they support games they currently enjoying playing
minus-squareroguetrick@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up9·11 months ago Portal is the college project or some sort of prototype It was a game designed in college but commercially published (by the college digipen) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narbacular_Drop
minus-squarebrsrklf@jlai.lulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·11 months agoAlso Portal 2 gets its gel mechanics from Tag : the Power of Paint, another Digipen student project.
U mean a company that is famous for making tools and hiring devs with their ideas and helping them to make games does what they are actually good at?
Look at it this way:
CS is the mod to Half-life
Portal is the college project or some sort of prototype (I don’t remember correctly)
L4d is the mod to cs
Dota is the mod to war3
Dota underlords is same
Their only new in house game in past ten years is actually Artifact and it got bullied by media instead of actually giving a good feedback.
So, they just do what they always did - they support games they currently enjoying playing
It was a game designed in college but commercially published (by the college digipen) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narbacular_Drop
Also Portal 2 gets its gel mechanics from Tag : the Power of Paint, another Digipen student project.