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from the mod makers pov, circa after they launched in 1999:

https://medium.com/super-jump/building-a-popular-half-life-m...

Mod making was a digital cabal concept, with local leads forming fiefdoms. They were opinionated to a design/delivery. Sometimes straying to other mods, but mostly focusing on one concept at a time.

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Valve also hired really heavily from the mod community. I spent a good portion of my youth in that scene and the people that they hired they really went far for(relocation, visas, etc).

I think most of the leads for the more popular mods(outside of CS obviously) ended up there in one form or another if they were interested in it.

Nice writeup. I was part of a mod team that got by Valve long time ago, and indeed it was a giddy fun time. We had no idea what we were doing, but we just created a game that we wanted to play - and it seemed to have worked.

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