This list is not intended to be a record of every Half-Life site in existence, but
rather a resource to start you off on the right foot. If you know of a great site that you
think should be part of this list, or if (god forbid) you find any dead links here, by all means
let me know at
decalbazaar@rattlebrain.com.
These are links to pages that contain information, links, and resources
for Half-Life and don't focus on
a particular theme.
- Go directly to the source.
Sierra studios, publisher of Half-Life, provides an overview of the game, news, links,
and lots of hype.
- Looking for a polished, extensive Half-Life site, with all-you-can-eat news, links and files?
Planet Half-Life is the WWW's answer to Sizzler for
Half-Life enthusiasts.
- Another elegant, well-rounded site is
www.halflife.org. News, files, and all the other good stuff are here.
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WON.NET has a fairly comprehensive Half-Life page, with sources for strategy, editing,
updates, and more.
- Halflife.Net has current Half-Life news, info,
and lots of downloadable movies and similar files. Lots of wholesome reading material here.
- Far2Cool provides info and news in periodical form.
These pages contain the good stuff: maps, skins and decals for your downloading pleasure.
Also included here are pages with information specific to these categories, like the
Decal Bazaar, for example.
- Check out the Half-Life Skins and Levels
Archive for an impressive collection of skins and, um, levels. Make sure to check out
their tips page for a couple of useful gems.
- The
Decal Repository boasts a fantastic archive of user-submitted decals. Lots of cool
decals - Over 300!
- Vandalism has a fairly large library
of general and personal decals to check out.
- Even more decals can be found at Half-Life Taggers
. Nice selection here.
- Can't you get enough? BabelFish's
Half-Life Decals has a super-duper, no-nonsense collection of decals.
- Wavelength also has a
tutorial of their own that you may want to take a peek at.
- Worth mentioning in two categories, the
WON.NET site has links to lots of good stuff, including the Half-Life texture SDK and some
of the more popular skins and maps.
- Wavelength has a bunch of good documentation, tutorials, and files for Half-Life editing. A lot of the material is fairly comprehensive, and covers model creation, level design, and more.
- Even better than Wavelength, the Half-Life Editing Resource Center has the name that says it all. If you want to learn how to create maps or skins, this is the place to go.
- Mod-Central has the scoop on upcoming
Half-Life mods.
The multiplayer game adds a completely new facet to the incredible experience that
is Half-Life. Exclusively multiplayer sites are listed here.
- Radium at Planet Half-Life contains the most extensive archive of deathmatch level reviews I have found on the net.
The maps are available for download, too.
- Aching to join a clan and bust heads in the name of unity?
ClanWorld has a list of registered
Half-Life clans
that just might want to recruit you.
You've got Half-Life (don't you?), what more could you need? Below are some programs
that may help improve your gaming experience.
- The server-seeking utility embedded in Half-Life is pretty decent, but can't quite compete with Gamespy for locating the best active deathmatch games.
- Having targeting trouble during multiplayer games? It might be your mouse.Check out the mouse utilities
at Blue's News; they might save your life.
- Ready to start making decals like the pros?
JASC software provides a shareware version of
Paint Shop Pro,
the fantastic image-editing utilty that was used to create the decals and artwork
for this site. Paint Shop Pro is also the program featured in the Decal Bazaar's
decal tutorial.
Are you dying to place a link to the Decal Bazaar on your site? Great! We only ask that you do not link directly to the files on this site, and would prefer if you linked to our homepage. The homepage address is: http:decalbazaar.freeservers.com/home.html.
Below are some graphics that you can use for linking:
