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Here’s your chance to show off your zombicidal zeal and help glorify your favorite waste of time! Vote for Left 4 Dead today at the Golden Joystick Awards 2009.
Remember to return June 1st to vote when it gets on the shortlist! Valve may not have been presumptuous enough to explicitly demand your participation in ensuring Left 4 Dead’s ultimate victory, but we are! Go vote for Left 4 Dead in every available category today!
Yesterday, the Left 4 Dead team released a beta version of the long-awaited SDK!
Today we are opening the beta of the Left 4 Dead Authoring Tools to the public. It is available as a free download for all owners of the PC version of Left 4 Dead, and can be found under the “Tools” tab in Steam.
The L4D Authoring Tools include modified versions of the same tools we used to produce Left 4 Dead.
Using the L4D Authoring Tools, you may create your own campaign maps, character skins, 3D models, sound effects, and music and load them into the game.
Here’s what’s included:
- Updated version of Hammer, the source level editor
- Updated suite of command line compiling utilities
- Updated Particle editor
- Updated Faceposer
- Example maps, common infected, props, and explosives
This release also introduces a pair of plug-ins for SketchUp, a 3D modeling program you may download for free. You may use these plug-ins to create building blocks and props that can be imported into Hammer for use in game levels.
This should greatly increase the number of custom skins, maps, and mods in the coming months. Get yours here: http://l4d.com/blog/post.php?id=2510
The enhanced Left 4 Dead statistics page is back, after appearing on Steam Community pages for a couple days in January. The new page features trendy rounded edges, more careful organization of content, a total time played counter, and compiles long-term statistics (probably starting from the initial release in January). Some of the statistics are still incorrect—such as 100% accuracies with the Minigun or the finales survived—but it’s a fun (if inaccurate) addition anyway. Check it out at your Steam Community profile page today!
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