Game · Half-Life I
Half-Life
Scripted, uninterrupted first-person storytelling plus an open SDK that seeded a modding ecosystem.
Mechanics it built on
Ideas Half-Life inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.
Directly influenced
The Half-Life series in this dataset
1998
Half-Life this page
2004
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