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Half-Life ‘Game Of The Year’ Nostalgia

I was just reminded of a Half-Life teaser site I did for Sierra back in 1999. I remember when I made it, I wanted to create a centerpiece that look somewhat like an Oscar award, so I made the base using Caligari Truespace and fooled around with Photoshop to get an image of Gordon Freeman…

I was just reminded of a Half-Life teaser site I did for Sierra back in 1999. I remember when I made it, I wanted to create a centerpiece that look somewhat like an Oscar award, so I made the base using Caligari Truespace and fooled around with Photoshop to get an image of Gordon Freeman to look like he’d been touched by Goldfinger. Getting a bit nostalgic thinking about this, I decided to see if I could find it in the Internet Archive. Sure enough, I discovered the archive for the site shown below.

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By Nollind Whachell

Questing to translate Joseph Campbell's Hero’s Journey into The Player’s Handbook for the roleplaying game called Life, thus making vertical (leadership) development an accessible, epic framework for everyone.