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Featured game: Half-Life by Valve Software

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Unq
New Competition! Make Black Mesa Come Alive!
Unq • 3 months ago2024-08-01 12:34:42 UTC • 4 comments
Update: Compo has been extended! Added over 2 weeks to help get maps finished & polished!

Surprise, another compo! Thanks to Hezus for suggesting this one and donating his prize from the previous compo.

Make Black Mesa Come Alive!

Show us your best dynamic, interactive map and Make Black Mesa Come Alive!
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Deadline: November 7th, 2024.

Note: if you already submitted your entry, you can still update it before the deadline! Take that time to playtest & polish if you want.

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Make Black Mesa Come Alive

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Silomi
New Half-Life Alpha Mod
Silomi • 6 hours ago2024-11-20 22:50:24 UTC • 0 replies
A new Alpha recreation mod has been released. It's called Triphammer, here it is: https://www.moddb.com/mods/ykcins-triphammer
Disco Clone
Half-Life Featureful SDK
Disco Clone • 2 days ago2024-11-18 15:01:03 UTC • 47 replies
Love some of the stuff in here, the demo map really shows it off well. Lot of really interesting and useful features.

I was just thinking that it could be nice to include the larger hud sprites fro...
vhetutor
Show off your HL box copies!
vhetutor • 3 days ago2024-11-17 16:15:31 UTC • 1 reply
Heres my small little nook of box copies. I do have some jewel cases tucked away at my parents house too

[img:https://i.imgur.com/BDNvD1f.jpeg|Wide shot of boxes]
[img:https://i.imgur.com/CecT17h....
Combiner 1P
20th Anniversary of Half-Life 2!
Combiner 1P • 3 days ago2024-11-17 15:11:51 UTC • 8 replies
> Hope it'll became available for HL1 too!

I hope so too
MegaBrutal
HL.dm20.NET - Vanilla/Fun Server
MegaBrutal • 4 days ago2024-11-16 12:30:15 UTC • 1 reply
Nice server and website! I see it's static – did you make it with Hugo or by hand?
You can check out my server too, it's „Coralie”.

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Favourite HL Title
Posted 3 months ago2024-08-09 05:53:18 UTC • Voting closed • 10 comments
What is your favourite official Half-Life game/expansion?

(If you actually want to vote for Decay or Lost Coast, I've decided they don't count. Let me know about how upset you are in the comments!)
  • Half-Life: 39% (29 votes)
  • Half-Life 2: 20% (15 votes)
  • Opposing Force: 17% (13 votes)
  • HL2 Episode 2: 11% (8 votes)
  • Blue Shift: 8% (6 votes)
  • HL2 Episode 1: 3% (2 votes)
  • Alyx: 3% (2 votes)

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Overfloater Another Pathos update has dropped Overfloater • 2 weeks ago2024-11-03 08:56:23 UTC • 4 satchmo It's been so long... satchmo • 1 month ago2024-10-20 04:49:10 UTC • 6 monster_urby Special monster_urby • 1 month ago2024-10-18 00:52:01 UTC • 7 Overfloater Major Pathos update, support for lightstyles, etc Overfloater • 1 month ago2024-10-12 15:11:05 UTC • 2 Suparsonik Today is the birthday of the FSF! Suparsonik • 1 month ago2024-10-04 19:17:13 UTC • 7 Erty 2^5 Erty • 1 month ago2024-10-02 08:25:58 UTC • 12

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