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Half-Life

Scripted, uninterrupted first-person storytelling plus an open SDK that seeded a modding ecosystem.

Released 1998 Developer Valve Publisher Sierra Studios Platform PC Genre FPS Era The 3D rupture

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Half-Life inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Open Data Formats and Mod SDK 1993Selectable Difficulty 1993Environmental Storytelling 1994True Polygonal Free-Look Space 1996Directed In-Engine Camera Language 1998

Directly influenced

Counter-Strike 1999Team Fortress Classic 1999

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