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Half-Life Basics

Sierra's Half-Life Site The official Half-Life site.

Valve Software The creators of half-Life.

Gearbox Software The creators of Opposing Force and Blue Shift.

Map Review Sites

[ten four ] Great reviews, single player only. Forum. Actively updated, but it's picked up some annoying pop-up flash ads.

Hangar 16 Great reviews, single player only. Forum. Actively updated.

The Lambda Map Complex Lots of reviews but none recent. Under new management so maybe . . . well maybe not.

HORNETKING REVIEWS Great reviews. Forum. No longer updated.

Pixel Mostly multi-player, but they are expanding to cover single player maps too. Forum. Actively updated.

Editing Resources

VERC Collective (Formerly Valve ERC) Great resources and tutorials. Excellent, well moderated forum (This is the one I frequent). Actively updated.

Wavelength Tutorials and many other resources for experts as well as beginners, huge forum. Recently had major update.

The Handy Vandal's Almanac Extensive directory of tutorials on his own and other sites, and other resources. In the midst of a major update.

Wally's Home The one and only texture wad editor and creator. Don't map without it! Forum. Actively updated.

The Wadfather More custom textures than you can shake a stick at, and more being added all the time. Very graphic intensive - takes a bit to load, but worth it. Small forum.

The 69th Vlatitude Many tutorials and Resources. Large forum. Actively updated.

TWHL More tutorials, maps, and news. Large forum. Actively updated.

PrefabSites

Gamedesign.net Prefabs More than 2300 prefabs (quality varies), very well organized. It's stuff is on 3dDownloads, which can be challenging to download from. Forum. Fairly recently updated.

PrefabLand Over 3600 prefabs (quality varies), very well organized - and you can actually download these. Forum (unmoderated and not for the faint of heart). Actively updated, but down frequently.

Prefab Lab 142 first-rate Prefabs - download one file to get them all! No new ones in over a year though.

Map/Mod/Level/Mission Sites

LostTime Now has it's own website!

ISSUES The Spirit of Half-Life mapping project that I lead. Which brings me to . . .

Spirit of Half-Life A mod that consists of excellent new features for Half-Life level designers. Forum.

Project Quantum Leap The first collaborative mapping project.

Black Widow Games Neil Manke's Website, home of They Hunger

Poke646 The Half-Life story takes a new turn

Wanted! The Western total conversion mod for Half-Life. The Site was down the last time I checked.

Azure Sheep DAV and Toadman's Website

Dave Johnston - Designer Creator of ETC and ETC II, plus several multi-player maps.

The Trenches a World War One multi-player mod in development. I don't normally do multi-player stuff, but I am a WWI history buff. The site seems to be temporarily down, but there is current news over at ModDB.com .


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