[ September 10, 1999 ]
MORE ALL-STARS ANNOUNCED FOR HALF-LIFE: OPPOSING FORCE
BELLEVUE, WA (September 10, 1999) -- Sierra, Gearbox Software and Valve are proud to announce four additional members of the industry "All-Star" team designing the multiplayer portion of the upcoming PC title, Half-Life(tm): Opposing Force(tm), the entirely new episode for the Game of the Year.
The four veteran designers announced today are: Richard "Zdim" Carlson, David "Kevlar" Kelvin, Marin "Kandyman" Gazzari, and Eric Reuter. They join theteam along with Richard "Levelord(tm)" Gray, who announced his participation earlier this summer.
"Gearbox is obviously very excited to be working with such an amazing team of talented designers on Op For," says Randy Pitchford, co-founder and leadgame designer at Gearbox. "It also adds a degree of suspense as we are waiting just as anxiously as everyone else to see what kind of amazing maps they put together for us to play."
About the All-Stars:
Richard "Zdim" Carlson
Growing from being one of the most respected amateur designers of the Doom and Heretic era, Carlson defined unique black and white sections of IonStorm's upcoming epic RPG Anachronox. He then contributed to John Romero's Daikatana before making the move to Looking Glass Studios where he is apivotal designer for the upcoming Thief 2.David "Kevlar" Kelvin
Aside from being a very visible member of the early 3D level design community, Kelvin was a member of Team Evolve creating several missions for theQuake II Zaero pack. He spent a short time at Monolith contributing maps for Blood II and Shogo before joining Legend Entertainment where he has shippedUnreal: Return to NaPali and is currently working on Wheel of Time.Marin "Kandyman" Gazzari
Austrian Marin Gazzari is probably the most respected deathmatch level designer of the era. His simple yet perfectly flowing designs have been the setting forcountless tournament and clan matches. Although he is probably best known for his work with Quake's ZerStoerer pack, his "kndy" series of deathmatchmaps are among the most played maps ever created.Eric Reuter
One of the most accomplished designers of the Opposing Force "All Stars," Eric is currently the lead level builder of Unreal PlayStation which will offer acompletely new single player episode. Eric was a designer with the original Unreal team after working with 3dRealms on Shadow Warrior. Eric became a professional designer after his early level work for Doom found itsway into the SAM'S published books "Tricks of the Doom Programming Gurus" and "e;3D Game Alchemy."Half-Life: Opposing Force (a.k.a. Op For) will feature over one dozen new multiplayer levels created by 3-D action industry All Stars. Op For also features anexpansive new single player episode were players return to the Black Mesa Research Facility from the exciting new perspective of a soldier to eliminate a new breed of fierce aliens. The title, which is being developedby Gearbox Software, is on schedule to ship this fall.
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