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Results for the Make Black Mesa Come Alive Competition

Unq • 1 day ago2024-11-23 02:10:56 UTC • 1 comment

Judging is complete and here are the results for the Make Black Mesa Come Alive Competition that recently closed!

Congratulation to the winners, and thank you to all entrants! Some great maps were created for this competition! Go play 'em!

See the full results here.

First Place: First Day at Black Mesa by EljanoCZE

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Pantagruel Project

Duffseg

First Day at Black Mesa (v1.0.1)

ELjanoCZE Updated

de_city_battle

Kotik

Makkon's textures (stone)

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From the Forums See all

blinking/flashing brushes

kimilil • 2 days ago2024-11-22 00:17:07 UTC • 2 replies

The problem: Too many entities are visible in some spots in the map, which makes some brush entities stop rendering.

The causes:
- Unoptimized map layout - too open and without the classic kinked...

Post your screenshots! WIP thread

Windawz • 2 days ago2024-11-21 21:55:05 UTC • 7232 replies

[img:https://twhl.info/uploads/images/6880/45ded415-5e82-4d62-8033-a04170a8c890.jpg]

Half-Life Featureful SDK

FreeSlave • 2 days ago2024-11-21 18:00:17 UTC • 49 replies

New release with some bugfixes https://github.com/FreeSlave/halflife-featureful/releases/tag/featureful-2024-11-21

The codebase now has unittests that run automatically on every push to the reposit...

New Half-Life Alpha Mod

Silomi • 3 days 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

Show off your HL box copies!

vhetutor • 6 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....

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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)