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Remember Counter Strike was not an independent game. It was a mod of Halo. Halo did not offer a downloaded level editor.

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It was Half Life and people typically used QuArK (Quake Army Knife) an open source tool originally made for Quake 1/2 maps, but Half Life used the same map file format. Later along Valve released Hammer, their own level editor.

QuArK, my first introduction to Python scripting. Python 1.5, if I remember correctly...

Gosh, it's still around, and its web site looks identical to how I remember it looking 25 years ago! https://quark.sourceforge.io/

I remember Quark being so revelatory at the time, and also so frustratingly unstable.

> Remember Counter Strike was not an independent game. It was a mod of Halo. Halo did not offer a downloaded level editor.

I thought it was half life

Because it was. I was playing ton of video game at that time and the mod community around half life was really fun and creative.

Science and Industry was a fun mod as well. But yeah I also remember CS ad being at another level right away.

Do you remember Wanted? The wild west one? Good craic.

Then there's Ricochet.. :')

The Natural Selection half life mod, and the standalone NS2 are still the best (maybe only?) asymmetric shooter/RTS hybrids I've played.

I did not until now haha! But now I do.

Someone else mentioned “natural selection” as well

Counter-strike was originally a Half-Life mod.

Counter-Strike was a mod of Half Life, not Halo.

And people say ChatGPT bullshits.

I believe Hammer has actually been out for more than 2 decades now. I certainly recall trying to recreate my school as a de map.

I did this and showed them and they thought it was great I was doing something with my time that was not fucking about with their network.

Apparently this sort of thing didn’t go down so well in the USA…

You mean half life right?

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