100 Summer Days of Nostalgia

Single Player First Person Shooter Maps and Mods for Half-Life 1, 2 and Episodes 1, 2 and 3

In celebration of Gilfrarry (Thanks man, can’t thank you enough) reformatting and uploading all the Half-Life 1 maps and mods into my format and onto my server, I have decided to run the 100 SUMMER DAYS OF NOSTALGIA Starting 1st June and running for 100 days I will update a Half-Life 1 map or mod every day.


23rd May 2011 15 Comments

My Black Mesa

for Half-Life

Single Player First Person Shooter Maps and Mods for Half-Life 1, 2 and Episodes 1, 2 and 3

A short map that takes place in some part of Black Mesa.

You meet a variety of enemies and your goal is to escape.

Of course, nothing turns out as you expect it.

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Total Downloads: 1,87822nd May 2011
11 Comments and 7 recommendations, most say "Maybe?"

Typical Disaster

for Half-Life

Single Player First Person Shooter Maps and Mods for Half-Life 1, 2 and Episodes 1, 2 and 3

Once again Gordon Freeman has a new job in another top secret laboratory. Here, the scientists have found a way to free alien slaves from the will of their masters. They have already freed some and hired them to work in the lab. But there’s also a team which runs some crazy experiments on teleportation. There is a disaster waiting to happen!

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Total Downloads: 2,42122nd May 2011
14 Comments and 8 recommendations, 3 say "Play It Now!"

Surface Run

for Half-Life

Single Player First Person Shooter Maps and Mods for Half-Life 1, 2 and Episodes 1, 2 and 3

The scenario is simple: Save your own skin and get to the surface.

Based in Black Mesa, you get to see a small part of the underground facility and even a quick trip to Xen, if you look in the right place.

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Total Downloads: 2,47421st May 2011
14 Comments and 12 recommendations, most say "Play It Now!"

The WOW Factor

Single Player First Person Shooter Maps and Mods for Half-Life 1, 2 and Episodes 1, 2 and 3

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a piece entitled Evenness of Quality, where I argued that a mod should have an evenness of quality throughout. Even if that meant dropping a section down in quality so it wouldn’t stand out. However, just to be clear, I was not talking about the detail of an area, but something more abstract. Well, today I am almost going to contradict that and write about the WOW Factor.

For a mod to reach greatness it normally requires at least one section in the mod where the player goes “WOW”. There are a number of ways to cause that exclamation.


21st May 2011 11 Comments

Lost World

for Half-Life

Single Player First Person Shooter Maps and Mods for Half-Life 1, 2 and Episodes 1, 2 and 3

You start at the top of a shaft, with no other way to go except down.

Clearly the only thing to do is find an escape route.

Work slowly and methodically, as your path is not always clear.

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Total Downloads: 2,99215th May 2011
21 Comments and 12 recommendations with no significant bias

Poll Question 223 – Do you think Valve will ever sell normal applications through Steam?

Single Player First Person Shooter Maps and Mods for Half-Life 1, 2 and Episodes 1, 2 and 3

So, this week I was looking around the Steam store and I noticed that everything uses the “http://store.steampowered.com/app/…” URL and that got me wondering why Valve don’t sell APPlications through Steam.

I don’t own many applications because there are so many free ones available but for some things I buy applications and it would be so nice to just install and load Steam and have my applications available from where ever I can use Steam.


6th May 2011 10 Comments