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Wait, HL2 uses the Quake engine? I know HL1 did, but I thought HL2's engine was Valve's in-house work.
by amyjess 12y ago
Wait, HL2 uses the Quake engine? I know HL1 did, but I thought HL2's engine was Valve's in-house work.
- chadzawistowski 12y agoHL1 uses the GoldSrc engine, which is a heavily-modified version of the Quake engine. GoldSrc was again heavily modified to become the Source engine, but it does retain direct lineage to Quake. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_%28game_engine%29#Origins http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_%28game_engine%29#Origin...
- amyjess 12y agoOh, that's pretty cool. Gotta love how well-known brand names like Source originated as internal dev jargon. I've always been fascinated with things like that.