The Development of Half-Life | 20th Anniversary Retrospective
76820 years ago this month, in 1998, a startup named Valve released Half-Life, and it would change the face of gaming. The game, inspired by Doom, another FPS that turned the hobby on its head, would make Valve a power player in the industry. And none of it would have happened if it weren’t for the era of the Microsoft Millionaires. Welcome to Arcadology: The Development of Half-Life.
Credits
Written and Edited by Kevin Erhard
Script Review by Matt McKeown
Voice Overs
Narration - Kevin Erhard
Roberta Pauer - Lady Pelvic (https://www.youtube.com/pelvicgaming)
Gabe Newell - Phil the Conquistadork (https://www.youtube.com/elconquistadork)
Scott Lynch - Max Marriner (https://www.youtube.com/maxmarriner)
Ken Birdwell - Scott Niswander of NerdSync (https://www.youtube.com/user/NerdSyncProductions)
Music From
Half-Life OST
Epidemic Sound
Sources
GameSpot, “The Final Hours of Half-Life”
Gamasutra, “The Cabal: Valve’s Design
Process For Creating Half-Life”
Gamasutra, “Valve explains why we'll
never see the full history of Half-Life's
development”
Washington Post, “Microsoft Millionaires
Still Pondering Wealth”, 2003
Gameplay Sources
Quake, Longplays.EU, played by Jumper1k
Half-Life, Longplays.EU, played by JonL
Half-Life is still available on steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/70/HalfLife/
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Other Statistics
Half-Life Statistics For Arcadology
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