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Where's my Orange Box Royalties?

Posted 2007-10-22 09:07 PM in Musings.

The Half-Life 2 Orange Box is out for the Xbox360 and PC and my buddy Kevin at DiabeTech emailed me this:

"I was image surfing and found this pic. I honestly had to do a double-take as I thought it was you...so, I took a few minutes out and entertained myself by creating one with your likeness. Just a little Monday morning humor ;) I call it Hanselraker."

Thanks Kevin! Yikes, that does look like me pre-Laser Eye Surgery. That's not the best pic of me on the left there, but still, might be time to either lose the beard all together and go BabyFace or head the opposite direction and go GrizzlyAdams. Either way, Ryan Reynolds still has my career.

Where's my Half-Life 2 royalties? Fair use my *ss! ;)

Tuesday, October 23, 2007 10:20:28 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

While Gordon Freeman may or may not be be a blatant Scott Hanselman rip-off, I think the folks at Valve Software definitely owe me some royalty checks. They apparently stole my likeness for the character of the Weighted Companion Cube. :)

On a side note, if you don't have the Orange Box, you need to at least rent it for the game Portal. It only takes two or three hours to play through, and is one of the cleverest puzzle games I have ever played. Plus, the game has a twisted, irreverent sense of humor.

Cam Soper

Wednesday, October 24, 2007 10:28:36 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

Gordon is actually a composite of four Valve employees.

Ogre

Wednesday, October 24, 2007 11:17:39 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

So, who's the chick a composite of?

Dave

Wednesday, October 24, 2007 11:53:32 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

Gordon is the only character not modeled after a real person. Alyx is based on Jamil Mullen. There are comparison photos of all characters and their real-life counterparts in the book "Raising the Bar". There's also a photo of the employees they used to composite Gordon. I still think he mostly looks like Marc Laidlaw but with hair.

Ogre

Thursday, October 25, 2007 8:46:26 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

Hey Ogre - no chance you know Joe C. and used to live in Dallas?

Dave

Thursday, October 25, 2007 12:05:25 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

Hey Dave: Nope. Never even been to Dallas. I'm currently living in the rust belt.

Ogre

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