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Valve Trying a Non-FPS?

by Chris Remo, Dec 06, 2005 1:30pm PST
Related Topics – Steam, Valve, Games: PC

It seems that Valve designer Robin Walker indicated at the recent Digital Interactive Entertainment Conference in Kyoto that Valve is interested in working on a game that's not a first person shooter. In fact, it seems what they're working on may not even be an action game at all. This would of course be a drastic change for the company, whose projects to date have all been part of the extended Half-Life franchise.

In comments made at the 2005 Digital Interactive Entertainment Conference in Kyoto, Japan, Robin Walker, Valve's Design Manager, stated that the company is working on "cooperative building games." Walker stated that an example would be "[building] something like a space ship or a machine with people online instead of shooting and killing each other."
One can't help but draw comparisons to Garry's Mod, the Source mod that allows players to turn the assets and environments of Valve's Half-Life 2 into essentially a big playground. There have in fact been players who have gone so far as to build large functional aircraft with assorted bits and pieces from the game's world. There of course has been no official announcement of this new Valve game, such as whether it will be a big release, a free or cheap download through Steam, or even just an entirely internal project.


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