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@tschumann

Apart from a few tutorials,

• Introduction - Using mp3s in Steam
• Orthogonal Triangle Rendering inside The Half-Life SDK

all custom code (except HL: Invasion port) was written from scratch using only my knowledge with Goldsrc.

Since I had previously worked with Source over the years, it helped.

@Solokiller

In regards to scripting, and assuming scripting allows for creating custom monsters and entities, I believe this could definitely be a plus.

For example, Garry's mod provides a Lua API which allows clients to override the game's default behavior. This mainly has the following advantages for clients:

• Hide internal game code complexity
• Reuse custom entities in multiple projects (No need to recompile)
• Easier way to manage modularity (Depends on script language used)
• Abstraction over game update (No need to recompile or merge changes in code base)
• Write minimal code

In addition, this would probably encourage more people to contribute to a common SDK rather than maintaining a fork separately.

On developer side, the following must be taken in consideration:

• Maintenance of script library (Additional work)
• Ensure scripted language updates do not break client scripts (Unit tests)
• Require to manage a wiki for clients and update documentation

@fresco You are welcome. Thanks for having made a great mod.

Releases are now available on ModDB. For more information, please see the following post.

During 2015-2017, I released several projects that involved recoding Half-Life 1 mods from scratch. These projects are mostly known as Half-Life mods SteamPipe patches, which will now be referred to as Half-Life mods reimplementations.

The projects source code was released in the following repository with a branch for each mod.

Lately, a lot of restructuring has been made to the source code and after months of work, I am happy to announce that work on updating each project is finished.

For each project:

• Source code has been reviewed and reworked for some parts
• Almost if not all features were retested
• All found issues were fixed
• CMake support has been added
• Project has been moved to its own repository
• A Release is now available

In addition, a base repository has been created and will be used as a reference for each project.

Projects:

• Afraid of Monsters (Original)
• Azure Sheep
• Big lolly
• Blackops
• Escape from the Darkness
• Half-Life: Invasion
• Half-Life: Visitors
• Night at the office
• Poke646
• Poke646: Vendetta
• Swiss Cheese Halloween 2002
• The Gate
• They Hunger
• Times of Troubles

If people wish to download and play the latest version, it would be appreciated. Any issue should be reported on the corresponding project repository.

Note: Each release does not include the full mod. You must install each original mod, and apply the release files on top of the original mod files.