{ Game Development � la Mod }
posted Monday, October 21, 2002 by Some1 Call 911
There's an interesting article on Business2.com talking about Counter-Strike and it's incredible popularity from nothing in the beginning. Like an accidental blockbuster. Here's a snippet on that (This is a badly translated article so bare with it):
Le, however, didn't just create new characters; he evolved Half-Life into an entirely new game. In mod lingo, it's called total conversion, or TC. While the original featured a fairly conventional run-and-gun experience known as a death match, Le's Counter-Strike has a new theme -- counterterrorists vs. terrorists -- and introduces cooperative team play and a virtual economy in which players earn money to buy better weapons. Le did all the art and most of the sound design himself, and with some programming help from a loose network of unpaid hacker friends, he completed a beta version in six months.