
Discussion piece: Do you think Gordon was an orphan in Half-Life 1? Picture to aid discussion.
Don't worry Gordon! She's debeaked and completly harmless!
Discussion piece: Do you think Gordon was an orphan in Half-Life 1? Picture to aid discussion.
Exploring Valve Archive, part 28 - "A Valve 3D platformer to rival Mario?" valvearchive.com>archive>3rd Party Developers>Escape Factory>Teebo And Kai The Search For Awl (Cancelled)> In the year 2000, Valve Software were contracted by Microsoft to develop a title for their upcoming Xbox console. Keen to develop for the new hardware, Valve collaborated with newly-found game studio Escape Factory: a team of industry veterans who'd worked at the likes of Sega and Nintendo to produce a prototype. B…
If you had to come up with a joint name for the Half-Life/Portal universe, what would you call it? I have some ideas, including: - The Cascade Canon - The Lambda Universe - Valve's Earth - Those games where portals are really important
Did you know that Half-Life 2 drew inspiration from Studio Ghibli while in development? In Raising the Bar, you can find an early image of a Combine Helmet with a description from Ted Backman (Half-Life's creature designer): "Early Combine helmet design was influenced by the work of Hayao Miyazaki." Looking at the comparisons between this helmet and some of Miyazaki's designs (he worked on a lot of Studio Ghibli films), you can see that their design language somewhat overlaps, although Miyaz…
Come on y'all, what made this one of my biggest posts? I have no idea why it got so popular?
This is official Valve promo art of Alyx for HL2, which is interesting because I've never seen this used in the wild or used by fans like other promo art! Any idea when/where this first showed up?
Exploring Valve Archive, part 27. valvearchive.com>archive>Alien Swarm>Art> Although one of their least popular games, Alien Swarm has some of the most interesting concept art of any Valve production. A focus is given on the environments, presented in an almost manga style. The aesthetic is clean and toy-like, with the first artwork above showing a stage of the game as a literal miniature-based tabletop set, akin to Warhammer 40k. There's even a tabletop-like plastic part sheet and a model b…
I HAVE to assume that Neon Prime is a space game, right? We've heard speculation from finalflame (ex-Valve dev) that it could be the "FTL-like ship building game" they were working on, and the trademark hints towards a multiplayer experience... Maybe it's a VR/PC multiplayer space dogfight game with a focus on ship customisation. Or maybe it's a small Dota spinoff, who knows? What do you think?