Half Life 2(d)

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Do you think Half-Life 2(d) would be a good thing for me to make?

  • Yes; easy as far as game transitions go
  • Yes; HL2D would pwn
  • No; general bad game to start on
  • No; No; Half-Life 2 should be left as-is
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So, I had an idea to make Half-Life 2 into a 2D game. HL has always been pretty linear so mapmaking won’t be too hard, spriting will be a learning experience (as will programming), sounds are some of my specialties.

Do you think this would be a good or a bad idea as a fangame for me to start on?

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It’s been done, to an extent.

3

ORLY?/!1!?

Dang. What do you mean by “to an extent”?

4

I mean it was a really shitty game =P
I’ll see if I can find a link…
EDIT: I think it might be illegal to download it. So I can’t post it here.
The only link I found is a torrent (google!).

5

If it’s shitty, then it’s okay for me to redo it, PLUS I’m talking about a remake of HL2, not the original game (which the one you mentioned appears to be).

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Oh. Your title confused me <_<.
But yeah, it was a pretty awful game, so if you did something not awful, I’d love it.

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if it’s practice it doesn’t matter if it’s been done.
what if you’d have to make something other than C to F converters when you start learning programming?
“CAN’T DO THAT, ALREADY BEEN DONE”

EDIT: go for it c_c;

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Oh you little-

Well, my thing is only an engine, anyway, never planned to make the game. Just got carried away with a basic gravity gun example.
I made something to suck and punt objects.
Then I added better physics.
Then I added a lighting engine.
Then I added guns.
Then I ported the whole thing to my new physics engine.
Then I reached today.

Not quite done yet :slight_smile:

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Codename: Gordon, a bad Abuse clone. Download links were removed from Valve’s sites becous game contains a hardcoded link to some hentai site. The game is still downloadable via steam, link: steam://install/92
It’s not illegal, the game just isn’t so good, get real Abuse instead.