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Laidlaw said his contribution was to add "old storytelling tricks" to Valve's ambitious designs. Rather than dictate narrative elements, he worked with the team to improvise ideas, and was inspired by their experiments. He contributed to the "visual grammar" of the
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universe. He disliked the crossover, feeling it "made both universes smaller", and said later: "I just had to react as gracefully as I could to the fact that it was going there without me. It didn't make any sense except from a resource-restricted point of view."
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Laidlaw announced his departure from Valve in January 2016. He said the primary reason for his departure was his age, and that he planned to return to writing stories. Laidlaw later said he had tired of the FPS genre and of solving storytelling problems in a
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On August 25, 2017, Laidlaw published a short story titled "Epistle 3", describing it as "a snapshot of a dream I had many years ago". Journalists interpreted it as a summary of what could have been the plot for
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series before his departure in 2016. Before joining Valve, Laidlaw was a novelist working in the
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is an American writer. He is a former lead writer for the video game company
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while they were developing their first game, the first-person shooter (FPS)
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computer programming. He wrote short stories and his first novel,
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game set on a time-travelling ship. Laidlaw said he had intended
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and bought a new computer so that he could play it. He wrote
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The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction people
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Index

Mike Laidlaw
Laidlaw in 2011
University of Oregon
marclaidlaw.com
Valve
Half-Life
fantasy
horror
International Horror Guild Award
The 37th Mandala
University of Oregon
punched card
Dad's Nuke
arcade games
Myst
Valve
Half-Life
level design
Half-Life 2
Half-Life 2: Episode One
Half-Life 2: Episode Two
several canceled Half-Life projects
Half-Life 2: Episode Three
virtual reality
story arc
Portal
Half-Life: Alyx
Kindle
The Legend of Zelda
Animal Crossing

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