• @[email protected]
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    1673 months ago

    Their engine is called source.

    The collection of libraries valve release to use steam (the piping, if you will), is called steamworks.

    • @cholesterol
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      503 months ago

      How is ‘source’ part of the metaphor?

    • @RightHandOfIkaros
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      353 months ago

      Would have been cooler if they named their engine Vapor instead

    • @saltesc
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      113 months ago

      You make me feel old for realising people younger than me have not ever realised this. But it makes sense now I type it… out loud(?)

      Back in my day the Steam UI was army green and you’d use it to play all the LAN games your mate had by copying their entire Steam folder over to yours a couple hours before the LAN started. And that was it. That was the “install”. You had Steam and all the HL mods like DoD and CS. Primed and ready to get noise complaints from the neighbours.

    • @Agent641
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      33 months ago

      And game saves are saved to steam cloud

    • @Klear
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      23 months ago

      That’s not why it’s called that. The real reason is that they didn’t bother ever giving it a name. When they needed a stable fork so they could further develop the engine without interfering with the development of Half-Life, they referred to the two source codes “GoldSrc” and “Src” and the name stuck.