"Half-Life" expansion will be launched in Feb. 11 nine years after "Half-Life 2" was out in the market in November 2004. Valve's Steam updated its game software with the arrival of Prospekt, a fan-made "Half-Life" game.
Richard Seabrook, a 25-year-old independent developer created Prospekt. It is a "Half-Life" fan-made game that is set to be launched on Steam in February. Persistent to develop the game, Seabrook resigned from his job two years ago to give himself the opportunity of fully attending to the creation of Prospekt. Back in the time, Seabrook was applying as a game developer at Valve.
The expansion features 13 levels of action sequences and completely scripted puzzles, all seamlessly integrated in the last installment story. Aside from graphical updates, it also includes new models, improved lighting, enhanced resolution and cube mapping, new textures, modded VGUI and HUD, all new voice acting, new model skin, and new music, VG247 reported.
"I'm hugely grateful for the immense support from the 'Half-Life 2' and PC gaming community," Seabrook told Eurogamer. Since "Half Life 3" is set to be more advanced and challenging to gamers, Seabrook himself cannot wait to know what gamers think of the advanced game features. He is also excited to get reviews of his finished game Prospekt, while people are kicking their feet off waiting for "Half-Life 3."
The "Half-Life" game developer has not given any statement yet on the hearsays that Valve might have plans to make the game more advanced and as challenging as it can be to the gamers. Details about this has been kept untold as it has not been launched yet.
Recently, "Half-Life 1 and 2's" game developer and writer Marc Laidlaw has resigned in the gaming industry who has been working on Valve for over the past ten years. Laidlow, who has spent his time developing games, admitted that he is feeling old in the industry while sharing how he started at Valve wayback 1997. Before resignation, he was fondly called old man Laidlaw. Feeling old, Laidlow wanted to have a break from all the stress of developing games.
"Half-Life 2" search engine has the same game software as Prospekt. Valve, allowed Seabrook for Prospekt to be played online on Steam.