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Steam Autumn Sale

Attention, Black Mesa personnel,

The Autumn Sale is about to go critical!

Black Mesa is now 50% off during the Steam Autumn Sale.
Suit up, and step into the Test Chamber before November 29th here:


https://store.steampowered.com/app/362890/Black_Mesa/

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Half-Life 24th Anniversary

Attention scientists!

24 years ago today, Half Life was released! We owe a lot to the Half-Life franchise, and it will always hold a special place as the series that Black Mesa came from. We are happy to have been a part of the source engine community all these years, and so today, join us in celebrating the 24th Anniversary of Half-Life! Are you feeling old yet?

Let’s hope not! Happy birthday Half-Life from the Crowbar Collective team!!



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Black Mesa X Intruder: The Winners

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Greetings Scientists,

At long last, we are doing a final update on the Black Mesa X Intruder mapmaking competition now that the judging process is complete. Due to unforeseen scheduling issues, we have prepared a wrap up video showcasing the winning maps and honorable mentions instead of the planned developer livestream.

[h2]The Winners[/h2]

First off, we wanted to thank all the participants of the mapmaking collaboration between Black Mesa and Intruder for all their excellent submissions. We were very impressed with the amount of work that our community members put in, and thoroughly enjoyed getting to try them all out. While it was very difficult to pick from all the entries we received, the following 3 were our favorites:

[h3]Third Place: Black Mesa South[/h3]

In third place, we have BlackMesa South submitted by Xixo. A map that is true to form, we could clearly see inspiration drawn from both games with an authentic atmosphere and sneaky routes to steal the package. We very much enjoyed getting the opportunity to play this map, and want to congratulate Xixo on making the top-3.

[h3]Second Place: Foreseen Sequences[/h3]

In the runner-up position, we have Foreseen Sequences submitted by DoubleOSpanky. With interactive environment features like keycards, deadly lasers, and collectible tapes this entry spices up gameplay with a well designed and extremely detailed experience. This was an excellent map, and we were very impressed with what we saw! Thank you for creating such an interesting and creative map for us to play.

[h3]First Place: Potential Energy[/h3]

Finally, the winner of the Black Mesa X Intruder mapmaking competition is Potential Energy submitted by ActionMan! This entry truly pushed the limit of Intruder Map Maker with a campaign style mission that has custom objectives, multi-round objectives, and moving vehicles it almost seems like this could be its own game! While there were many strong candidates for top prize, ActionMan’s was a cut above the rest. This was a fantastic map, and we want to thoroughly congratulate them for getting 1st place!

[h2]Developer Wrap up Showcase Video[/h2]

To celebrate the hard work of our competition winners, we are releasing a showcase video to wrap up the map creation contest. Tune in to get the teams’ thoughts on what they enjoyed about each map!

The final Black Mesa X Intruder wrap up video can be found here

That’s everything that we have for you today. We enjoyed the opportunity to bring our two communities together, and are extremely impressed by all the maps that were entered. Thank you all for making this an amazing event. See you all later, scientists!


-The Crowbar Collective Team

Announcing The LambdaBuilds: Escape From Black Mesa Winners!

Greetings, scientists!

At long last, we are finally ready to unveil the winners of our recent “LambdaBuilds: Escape From Black Mesa” mapmaking competition! We were blown away by all the entries that we have received and, despite how hard it was to pick out 3 winners, have finally determined the top-3 for this excellent event. Below are our top-3 from third place, to the grand prize winner:



  • Third Place: Taking 3rd place is Little Red Star by Midlou! Congratulations on a job well done!
  • Second Place: In 2nd, we have The Xenian by SNW! We were impressed by your work and appreciate your submission!
  • First Place: The grand prize winner of “LambdaBuilds: Escape From Black Mesa '' is Biotech by BeefBacon! While it was difficult to pick a winner from all our great submissions, this one was the one that captured our imagination most. Excellent work, and enjoy your hard-earned prizes!

[h2]Honorable Mentions [/h2]

It was really difficult picking these three maps out of all the ones that we received. Because of this, we also want to give an honorable mention to two of the maps that came oh so close to winning, but ultimately just lost out by a slim margin. These two maps are:

4th Place - Imposter, by Dolmo
5th Place - Shadows, by OnTheMatter

Both of your maps were a ton of fun to play, and we appreciate you taking the time to create them!
Full details and results can be found here.

Again, we want to thank everyone who participated in the competition, and want to offer a hearty congratulations to our winners!

[h2]Where to play the maps: [/h2]

If you’re interested in playing the maps from the competition, we have just released an official collection of them on the Steam workshop. Additionally, you can go and download the maps from the ModDB web portal if you prefer. Go and give these excellent maps a try!

That’s all for now, scientists!

- The Crowbar Collective Team

LambdaBuilds: Escape From Black Mesa

Hello, fellow zombie scientists!

YOU are Challenged to Escape!

Head over to the workshop to check out the new and spooky community map submissions from our recent ”LamdaBuilds: Escape From Black Mesa” level design competition! Do you have the brains and the brawn to make it out alive?
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2877017092



Thanks to Our Partners

Thank you to all the designers who submitted an entry to the competition, and a special thanks to our partners at LambdaGeneration and ModDB, for hosting the event as a part of their series of LambdaBuilds competitions! We love community events, and we are grateful to have been able to run one with these two fantastic organizations.



The turn out, and the quality of submissions, has blown us away. Winners for the competition will be announced soon, but we hope you will check out ALL the spooky submissions, and give them a play through in the meantime. Thanks to everyone that participated!

Steam Scream Fest

To celebrate this community event, Halloween, and the Steam Scream Fest Black Mesa will be available for 75% off until November 1 at 10:00 AM PDT.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/362890/Black_Mesa/

Have a happy Halloween! Thanks again, scientists!