25th Anniversary brings back lot of stuff
I was very happy to see Valve finally take care of original HL and spent some time collecting the goods from forgotten CD's. The top of the pop is lost Uplink demo, which was replaced by Day One back in late 90s, now finally included. I can't even remember when I've played it for the last time... 10 years? Maybe more.
Lil' memoir
But even before that, my introduction to Half-Life universe were tuff. I've been dropped straight to HL2 Ravenholm and this first experience with father Grigory's sermons makes me shitting with bricks. Up to these days I still remember most of this "creepy" gameplay (this was around 2005!). You know, then you're a 6-7 year old kid things like this imprints on your brain.
Mod's media update
However, it takes time to make a full circle from rapid interest to mod making for almost 20 y.o. game. This project evolving from "just put e3 2002 maps together" to a thing like a proper 2002 game demo. Yes, I could already ship you a glued together untouched maps from leaked source but every time I see them, I see opportunities to enrich them, in proper way. So here's some new screenshots from Antlion Caves and Air Exchange:
ooh cant wait for this project
neat