Hey Dave,
Shhh! Don't tell anybody, I actually have never played!! One of my
best friends and co-founding member of my old punk band, Doug Lombardi
is the marketing director of Valve Software. He got me a couple gigs
doing soundtrack work for the the games, and I actually scored a
couple of the (Mods?). So I've only play unfinished versions of the
games for scoring and composing purposes. Actually it's kinda of funny
because you can be playing and then suddenly walk through a wall into
a cyberspace void because you've somehow managed to get to an
unfinished section of the game.
I only wish I had some of the studio gear and keyboards I have now
when I had the opportunity to score the games. Back then I was only
working with an analog 4-track, I did ok, but my gear was really old.
Hey BTW - How about sharing some of your graphic work with the class?
I'm curious to see it. Hopefully I can bug some of my classmates and
we can get this group moving!!???