What are people's thoughts on Valve's one-off intro for Artifact?
LORE THEORY (to fit the make the absurd Portal universe work within the realistic world of Half-Life): What if Cave Johnson has absolutely no idea what he's doing, and the real cause for any success he leads Aperture in is from the influence of Caroline? Think about it: Cave is essentially one of the billionaire philanthropists we see today: Elon Musk, Jeffrey Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg; all "self-made billionaire geniuses" who aren't really self made, and all take credit for other people's inven…
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- I personally find the coloured bar at the top of the screen a bit jarring. Perhaps a feature to toggle it on/off? Or maybe have it slide out of view when scrolling down, but reappear when scrolling up, like the address bar in a phone browser! - A lighter orange in the HL page would be really nice Otherwise I love the new layout! This community suddenly feels a whole lot bigger!
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Exploring Valve Archive, part 25. valvearchive.com>archive>Other Files>Rhinoscar_Logo_Sketch.png Before Valve settled on "Valve", Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington played with different name ideas. These included "Fruitfly Ensemble" and "Rhino Scar", with the mascot of the latter seen above (the mascot is a figure with a large hole in their body, a "rhino scar"). It's also speculated that the potential names included "Holobox", although this is unconfirmed. Newell and Harrington finally settled…
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![Exploring Valve Archive, part 24.
valvearchive.com>archive>Cancelled Games>Prospero>
After Valve was founded, they began work on two projects: 'Quiver', which would later become Half-Life, and 'Prospero'.
Prospero was initially the project with more promise behind it, being originally positioned as a "science fantasy epic" in which the focus was on exploration through various worlds called "The Library". It was to be played with a 3rd person perspective of the main player character, who's name changed between "The Librarian", "Aleph", and at one point "Miranda" (although this was the name of a concept character, not necessarily intended to be the player).
[both 'Prospero' and 'Miranda' are names that originate from Shakespeare's 'The Tempest', a play about a wizard stuck on island that features meta connections with Shakespeare's own life]
As 'Quiver' began overtaking Prospero's development and focus, the game evolved into an MMO, intended to be shipped with a mix of Valve and user-created worlds.
As Prospero lost momentum within Valve, a lot of its aspects, functionality, and social features made their way into Valve's Steam. However, as with all projects within Valve, the game was never officially cancelled, and it's still a possibility that we may see Prospero return in some form in the future...](https://media.cdn.community.lambdageneration.com/media-images/1662522712450BecDBLIC-BusChgD.jpg?size=normal)
![Exploring Valve Archive, part 24.
valvearchive.com>archive>Cancelled Games>Prospero>
After Valve was founded, they began work on two projects: 'Quiver', which would later become Half-Life, and 'Prospero'.
Prospero was initially the project with more promise behind it, being originally positioned as a "science fantasy epic" in which the focus was on exploration through various worlds called "The Library". It was to be played with a 3rd person perspective of the main player character, who's name changed between "The Librarian", "Aleph", and at one point "Miranda" (although this was the name of a concept character, not necessarily intended to be the player).
[both 'Prospero' and 'Miranda' are names that originate from Shakespeare's 'The Tempest', a play about a wizard stuck on island that features meta connections with Shakespeare's own life]
As 'Quiver' began overtaking Prospero's development and focus, the game evolved into an MMO, intended to be shipped with a mix of Valve and user-created worlds.
As Prospero lost momentum within Valve, a lot of its aspects, functionality, and social features made their way into Valve's Steam. However, as with all projects within Valve, the game was never officially cancelled, and it's still a possibility that we may see Prospero return in some form in the future...](https://media.cdn.community.lambdageneration.com/media-images/16625227124507CDCdD8DyB3DDDmC.jpg?size=normal)
![Exploring Valve Archive, part 24.
valvearchive.com>archive>Cancelled Games>Prospero>
After Valve was founded, they began work on two projects: 'Quiver', which would later become Half-Life, and 'Prospero'.
Prospero was initially the project with more promise behind it, being originally positioned as a "science fantasy epic" in which the focus was on exploration through various worlds called "The Library". It was to be played with a 3rd person perspective of the main player character, who's name changed between "The Librarian", "Aleph", and at one point "Miranda" (although this was the name of a concept character, not necessarily intended to be the player).
[both 'Prospero' and 'Miranda' are names that originate from Shakespeare's 'The Tempest', a play about a wizard stuck on island that features meta connections with Shakespeare's own life]
As 'Quiver' began overtaking Prospero's development and focus, the game evolved into an MMO, intended to be shipped with a mix of Valve and user-created worlds.
As Prospero lost momentum within Valve, a lot of its aspects, functionality, and social features made their way into Valve's Steam. However, as with all projects within Valve, the game was never officially cancelled, and it's still a possibility that we may see Prospero return in some form in the future...](https://media.cdn.community.lambdageneration.com/media-images/1662522712450DrBRBYBtDgCABcCI.gif?size=normal)
![Exploring Valve Archive, part 24.
valvearchive.com>archive>Cancelled Games>Prospero>
After Valve was founded, they began work on two projects: 'Quiver', which would later become Half-Life, and 'Prospero'.
Prospero was initially the project with more promise behind it, being originally positioned as a "science fantasy epic" in which the focus was on exploration through various worlds called "The Library". It was to be played with a 3rd person perspective of the main player character, who's name changed between "The Librarian", "Aleph", and at one point "Miranda" (although this was the name of a concept character, not necessarily intended to be the player).
[both 'Prospero' and 'Miranda' are names that originate from Shakespeare's 'The Tempest', a play about a wizard stuck on island that features meta connections with Shakespeare's own life]
As 'Quiver' began overtaking Prospero's development and focus, the game evolved into an MMO, intended to be shipped with a mix of Valve and user-created worlds.
As Prospero lost momentum within Valve, a lot of its aspects, functionality, and social features made their way into Valve's Steam. However, as with all projects within Valve, the game was never officially cancelled, and it's still a possibility that we may see Prospero return in some form in the future...](https://media.cdn.community.lambdageneration.com/media-images/1662522712451DkCsBhC0DABeDyDF.gif?size=normal)
Exploring Valve Archive, part 24. valvearchive.com>archive>Cancelled Games>Prospero> After Valve was founded, they began work on two projects: 'Quiver', which would later become Half-Life, and 'Prospero'. Prospero was initially the project with more promise behind it, being originally positioned as a "science fantasy epic" in which the focus was on exploration through various worlds called "The Library". It was to be played with a 3rd person perspective of the main player character, who's na…
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Is anyone else interested in where the "post-human" concepts for Half-Life 3 could've gone? Apparently in this storyline, Gordon wakes up in Aperture Science with a cybernetic arm that can manipulate the temperatures of objects. He escapes and joins up with the rebels to continue the fight against the combine with his new robot arm and shirtless look...
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"Hey! You there! Wait a minute now... aren't you...? Ah, you are! You're that scientist chap - Friedman, Fishman - am I right?" Credit goes to groooonz on Steam
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I made a GoldSrc Steam cover for Entropy Zero 2 to celebrate its release in a few days! Here's the link to it on SteamGridDB: steamgriddb.com/grid/236847 And here's the link to my EZ1 cover: steamgriddb.com/grid/236846
Remember this classic Half-Life 2 fanart? It depicts what I believe to be the Combine searching through the desolate ruins of the United States. Anyway, I was a bit annoyed that I couldn't find any high quality versions of the image, so I upscaled it myself using a program! It looks a little waxy, but overall I think it's been improved. First image is original, second is upscaled.