Valve Lecture at Gathering

[Kangy]

The Gathering is reporting that Jess Cliffe and Mike Dussault gave a lecture to a packed auditorium at the festival of all things digitally competitive. Thanks in part to the huge amount of Counter-Strike and Half-Life 2 fans in attendance, the lecture was a great success. The lecture detailed how Jess Cliffe and Mike Dussault became involved with Valve from their modification roots, and how the company created their current line of products.
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[br]See the full first hand report here.

 

[Dinkleberry]

"if your mod reaches over 1000 unique users you get a free trip over to Valves HQ and help to further development of your modification"
wh000000000t!

 

[Demolition man]

ugh 1 april ugh

 

[Kangy]

That's not a joke, by the way

 

[CommandoSR]

The download links don't work

And the directory where the downloads are supposed to be, instead it cointain "Demos for dummies" tutorial in norwegian...

 

[rcpinchey]

I can't wait to see the video of the presentation... before they went, they asked for some of our mod media to use as a part of it- so obviously, our entire team were grinning like a bunch of cheshire cats in a hotbox. I hope they've said nice things...


RC Pinchey
Team Leader, BallPoint Studios
www.sourceball.com

 

[Insano]

I can't wait to see the video of the presentation... before they went, they asked for some of our mod media to use as a part of it- so obviously, our entire team were grinning like a bunch of cheshire cats in a hotbox. I hope they've said nice things...


RC Pinchey
Team Leader, BallPoint Studios
www.sourceball.com

Maybe they used it and said: "Look: this is how a mod isn't supposed to be!"

j/k, nice 1 april joke on your site btw

 

[Asuka]

Interesting but would like mor einfo on what they said etc.

 

[Dinkleberry]

Maybe they used it and said: "Look: this is how a mod isn't supposed to be!"

j/k, nice 1 april joke on your site btw

What april joke?

 

[Insano]

What april joke?

The one where they are sued. I hope for them it's an april joke

 

[Dinkleberry]

The one where they are sued. I hope for them it's an april joke

6char

 

[Ennui]

hmm... 1000 unique users.

that's really, really cool.

 

[Vegeta897]

All I have to do is whip up some reaaaaaally cool looking screenshots (photoshop) and a nice description, and BAM! I have myself atleast 1000 people downloading to try it out.

Although, it would be tough to explain that to Valve... Or develop it...

 

[rcpinchey]

The 1000 users thing doesn't make much sense to me- that really isn't very many users at all, even our videos have had a few thousand downloads.

My theory is it's either:
a)Not true or a joke
or
b)1000 simultaneous players- which is a bit more impressive.


Saying that, though, valve do love their modding community, and they are uber-rich, so maybe...


RC Pinchey
Team Leader, BallPoint Studios
www.sourceball.com

 

[Pi Mu Rho]

1000 unique players is quite a lot. There's a big difference between downloading and watching a video and actually installing then playing a mod.

Presumably, they would have other criteria (i.e. persistent users, rather than people just checking it out once)

 

[Dinkleberry]

1000 is quite a lot, but I think there'll be a few mods that get that kind of userbase. I for one am getting a hefty list of mods I plan to play (Including a shedload of SB, provided we get servers)