Comments on: MINERVA Goes Pro: Valve Hires Ultra-Modder

By: bob

bob — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:11:42 +0000

@chipp
Um, spoiler warning please :P

By: Pus Filled Sac

Pus Filled Sac — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:17:02 +0000

It’s good to see the singleplayer modder getting some recognition for a change.

See to it that Episode 3′s difficulty on Hard is similar to Minerva’s. It was the first time I’ve been challenged by single player FPS for years. Not because I’m a master player but simply due to a lot of experience.

I thought the character was a Combine soldier disconnected during “reprogramming”.

By: chipp

chipp — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:05:43 +0000

Congrats! *clap clap clap*

MINERVA: Metastasis was quite good. I liked a lot the idea that there was an external kind-of-powerful entity that is not friendly with the Combine and uknown to the humans. Very intriguing.

I remember the moment when you wake up after booming everything up with only 15 HP or something and then you have to run away before Minerva destroys everything while she talks to you about some stuff. That was epic!

But maybe I just got everything wrong and that was not what happened.

By: KingMob

KingMob — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:31:10 +0000

Congrats, Cargo Cult.

Let’s see a revised Minerva enter into HL canon as the “Blue Shift” of HL 2 and 3, please. That would be pretty neat, as I’d like to know more about Minerva herself.

By: np

np — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:25:09 +0000

Gratz Mr. Foster, a much deserved appointment after a great mod.

What the people who didn’t “like” the mod must at least try to understand that this was made by a single person (with some advice and help from VALVe along the way), and compared to other mods who have had entire teams of people behind them and failed. From that perspective, for how well and fun it was to play with a coherent if slightly cryptic story line while knowing how hard and time consuming it is to design and produce a mod, the work is outstanding.

You can really see that HL2 mod scene is working VALVe’s favour as they pick the best and the brightest from the community to join their ranks, now if they would only hire the entire Dystopia / Neotokyo teams *hint* *hint*.

By: Fazer

Fazer — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:00:14 +0000

It has been confirmed – Valve is going to put Cargo Cult in charge of making Episode 3 all by himself.

Anyway, congratulations! I played with him once in Team Fortress 2 on Goldrush, so now I can say I was with a Valve employee in one team :-P

By: Javier Candeira

Javier Candeira — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:44:47 +0000

Heaps of congrats, CargoCult! If you could ship Minerva single-handedly, it’s no surprise Valve want to put you in a room with other people!

By: weirwood

weirwood — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:31:22 +0000

Congrats Adam! Or should I say congrats, Valve?

Hope the transition from solitary tinkering to working in a team with the best people in the industry goes smoothly for you. I look forward to scourging Ep 3 for Minerva references.

By: Ojive

Ojive — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:13:26 +0000

Awesome! He certainly deserves it.

By: Science Vessel

Science Vessel — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:12:10 +0000

Hey CargoCult – Thanks for the game!
Please tell me Valve hired you as “Executive in Charge Of Getting Episode 3 Out In A Reasonable Time.”
Also, does this mean Minerva is going in Orange Box 2? It is good enough to.

By: Toby

Toby — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:38:14 +0000

Very well deserved, the level design in some of the later levels of metastasis were arguably better than valves in HL2. A great mod. I am very excited at the thought of Adam working on Epi 3, im sure it’ll be all the better for it.

As a side note I really loved the music that was used in the first epi.. really changed the feel of that section.

By: Forceflow

Forceflow — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:22:10 +0000

Damn right. I loved the first chapter.