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Hi Sandeep, thanks for the welcome! I first started coding around 15 years ago, building levels for CounterStrike 1.6 and building a clan website (PHP + MySQL). I'm not sure when I would consider my professional career to have started.

Very cool. I did a lot with Team Fortress Classic (especially when it came to my introduction to running servers) and eventually TF2, as well.

Nice Steven Ventimiglia. I played a bit of TF2 though I never did run my own gaming servers. I wish I had more knowledge in those days, would love to poke around at the infrastructure people hacked together just coz they wanted their own area to game.

I've been out of the PC gaming community for a while (though waiting for my new rig to arrive in the mail 😁). AFAIK it's now usually the game provider running the "official" servers for multiplayer, correct? That said, I think unofficial servers were a thing on BattleField 4 (xbox).. maybe they're still around.

Yeah. Even Valve needed to step in to prevent "instant gratification" cheat servers.

Out of curiosity, were you using Hammer/Worldcraft to make your maps, or straight code?

Just thought to mention Connor Bode so that he reads your reply Steven Ventimiglia. :)

Steven Ventimiglia honestly I can't remember what the program was called. There was a GUI and a live camera, and I was attaching scripts to different objects. I was really stoked when I figured out how to make destructible objects (glass, walls shattering, etc.). Now that I'm rethinking it, the mapmaking was probably CS:Source and the clan website was CS1.6.

Sandeep Panda thanks for the mention. Btw, it's kind of annoying that when I get a notification for a mention, the URL doesn't jump right to that mention. I have to scroll through all the comments and find the relevant one.

Connor Bode We have accidentally deployed a bug. Sorry about that. I am going to deploy a fix in the morning (it's 3AM here right now 😃).