Update: Black Mesa: Source

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Grand Master

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Does anyone know if this is legal? I mean HL2 source code is not open source :huh:

The legal issue has nothing to do with source, they are just making use of freely available modding tools. The legal issue would be they are copying an existing game Valve owns. I believe they received the green light from Valve some time ago although they were asked to change the mods name from something which I think had the "Half Life" name in it so they went to Black Mesa Source.

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no, it used to be called black mesa: source but valve didn't like them using :source. so they took it off. now its just black mesa, the title of the thread is wrong.
Not a big deal if you ask me. I've always known it as having Source on the end, so I wouldn't have known what this thread was about without it.

Plus, look at the url... :whistle:

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The legal issue has nothing to do with source, they are just making use of freely available modding tools. The legal issue would be they are copying an existing game Valve owns. I believe they received the green light from Valve some time ago although they were asked to change the mods name from something which I think had the "Half Life" name in it so they went to Black Mesa Source.

Valve are the kind of game devs, where if you make an recreation of one of their games (i.e. HL on the Source engine), they'll help you.

Their only issue was with the "Source" part of the title, that's been gone for ages.

Also, most of the HL2 code is in the SDK, By default it's pretty much a 1:1 match of HL2 when you compile the code, of course most people make changes though (Look at mods like SMOD, It's plain HL2 + stuff)

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Run. Think. Shoot. Live. Source. Black Mesa is the Half-Life 2 total conversion of the original Half-Life game. Utilizing the Source engine and its endless array of possibilities and powers, Black Mesa will throw you into the world that started the Half-Life continuum and introduced Gordon Freeman to the world as a gun-toting, bullet-dodging Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics.

The game will be coming in 2009

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That 2009 is so vague!!!! :angry: Even the voice acting sounds professional. If Valve doesn't hire these people....

Im sure there is a reason of why Valve has kept an eye on this project.

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