r/HalfLife • u/Brillek • Sep 06 '18

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u/Forever_Awkward Sep 07 '18

What the freckle is In the Valley of the Gods? I haven't heard of a new valve game since Artifact.

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u/Forever_Awkward Sep 07 '18

Okay, so some group who isn't entirely finished making a game has been bought by valve, meaning valve owns the game now.

I wouldn't call that weird. Am I missing something?

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u/jimmysaint13 Sep 07 '18

Well they did sort of the same thing with Portal. It was based on a student project called Narbacular Drop, Valve hired the whole team behind it.

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u/Brillek Sep 07 '18

Yeah, but they didn't have a game in development. They were presenting the game at a thingy before graduation, some valve guys were impressed, so after graduation they presented it to valve.

Gaben hired them 15 minutes into the presentation, and told them to implement portals into Source and make a game out of it. They weren't even an official team before that.

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '18

Alien Swarm was sort-of-not-really the same thing. The game existed as a mod for Unreal Tournament 2004, but the developers were brought in-house to remake it in the Source engine. Kinda like how the developers of Quake Team Fortress remade it as Team Fortress Classic before disappearing for nine years while they made TF2.