History Of Valve - Mloclam/gabenparadise GitHub Wiki

The Start of Valve Corps

• • In the years of 1998 through 1999 They released their first two games
• • • • • In 1998 after acquiring license to use the quake engine they launched their first game Half-Life the following year they released another game that was essentially a modded form of quake, called Team Fortress.
• • • • • They also released many modded expansion version of both games
• • Founded by Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington4
• • • • • Both had previously worked at Microsoft to start this company in 1996.
• • • • • Masterminds behind a large portion of 3 years windows systems.
• • • • • Started up as a limited Liability Company (lose version of a company which is hard to blame or sue basically)

How we know valve

• • Prior to the success of half-life valve solidified its roots in using the source engine
• • • ** Source is a Engine developed by valve which they used to craft other games.
• • • • • The game that they debuted with this engine was Counterstrike: Source.
• • • • • Shortly after they released a sequel to their first success called Half-Life 2 which has been modded a lot mainly by gearbox to format dreamcast and ps2 also allowing dual screen co-op play
• • • • • They went on to remodel their original games to run using source
• • • • • They also went on to create with source games like Portal, Left 4 Dead and Day of Defeat.