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SourceForts
This is a selected list of Source engine mods (modifications), the game engine created by Valve for most of their games, including ''Half-Life'', ''Team Fortress 2'', and ''Portal'', as well as licensed to third parties. This list is divided into single-player and multiplayer mods. Single-player mods * '' Aperture Tag'' - A modification based on ''Portal 2'' that recreates the essence of the game '' Tag: The Power of Paint'', the inspiration for the various gels used in ''Portal 2''. Instead of a portal gun, the player solves puzzles using a mix of these gels that they can spray onto surfaces with a tool they carry. * '' Black Mesa'' - A third-party recreation of ''Half-Life'' (1998) that was made in response to the release of '' Half-Life: Source'' (2005), a port of the original game to the Source engine. ''Black Mesa'' originally released as a free mod in September 2012, and later had a full commercial release on Steam in March 2020. * ''Coastline to Atmosphere'' - A mod set i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Half-Life 2
''Half-Life 2'' is a 2004 first-person shooter game developed by Valve. It was published by Valve through its distribution service Steam. Like the original ''Half-Life'' (1998), ''Half-Life 2'' combines shooting, puzzles, and storytelling, and adds features such as vehicles and physics-based gameplay. Players control Gordon Freeman as he joins a resistance movement to liberate the Earth from the control of an alien empire, the Combine. ''Half-Life 2'' was created using Valve's Source engine, which was developed at the same time. Development lasted five years and cost million. Valve's president, Gabe Newell, set his team the goal of redefining the first-person shooter genre. They integrated the Havok physics engine, which simulates real-world physics, to reinforce the player's sense of presence and create new gameplay, and developed the characterization, with more detailed character models and realistic animation. Valve announced ''Half-Life 2'' at E3 2003, with a release date ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Source (game Engine)
Source is a 3D game engine developed by Valve. It debuted as the successor to GoldSrc in 2004 with the release of '' Counter-Strike: Source'' and ''Half-Life 2''. Updates to Source were released in incremental versions, with the engine being succeeded by Source 2 by the late 2010s. History Source distantly originates from the GoldSrc engine, itself a heavily modified version of John Carmack's Quake engine with some code from the Quake II engine. Carmack commented on his blog in 2004 that "there are still bits of early ''Quake'' code in ''Half-Life 2''". Valve employee Erik Johnson explained the engine's nomenclature on the Valve Developer Community: Source was developed part-by-part from this fork onwards, slowly replacing GoldSrc in Valve's internal projects and, in part, explaining the reasons behind its unusually modular nature. Valve's development of Source since has been a mixture of licensed middleware and in-house-developed code. Among others, Source uses Bink Video fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
