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[–] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 35 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Would have been cooler if they named their engine Vapor instead

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 66 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Yeah but then it would be vaporware

[–] w2tpmf@sh.itjust.works 34 points 11 months ago

HL3 confirmed.

[–] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

it was 3/4 of a joke at best, it was missing that final umph.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago

⅔ of a joke, if you will

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

Instead the story is that the source engine was located in the "Src" directory in their Visual Source Safe. And the Half Life 1 engine was in a separate branch named GoldSrc because it was about to ship real soon, and they needed to keep changes to a minimum.

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Also Steam Boxes should have been called Boilers. Maybe then they would have succeeded.

[–] IzzyJ@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

They should make a single home stambox like a console version of the Deck, and call it the Engine

[–] monotremata@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago

The code name of the first Steam Box, before it was released, was Piston, which fits the theme pretty well. e.g. https://www.polygon.com/2013/1/7/3849284/piston-valve-steam-box-xi3