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Welcome to the Valve Developer Community. Whether you're building a "Triple-A" commercial project or a mod for Half-LifeĀ® 2, you'll want to sign up as a Valve developer today. It's free to join, and open to anyone working with the Source Engine and the Source SDK.

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Valve Technology

The engine under the hood of Half-Life 2 can make your game a success. Let Source™ do the heavy lifting so that your team can focus on building great games.


If you're interested in building a product using Source, talk to us about options for distribution on Steam.
 

Source and the Source SDK

Our knowledgebase of technical information about using the engine and all of the related tools is now posted on a community-driven web site called a wiki. Sign up as a developer to contribute or to ask a question.

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Latest News

VDC Site Update
Thursday Jun 18th, 2009
The site has gone through a software upgrade. Read more about the improvements on the Release Notes page.


Source SDK Update Available
Monday Jun 15th, 2009
A new version of the Source SDK is now available. The Source SDK beta is no longer available.


Left 4 Dead Authoring Tools Beta
Friday May 15, 2009
Tools for creating Left 4 Dead custom content is now in Open Beta Test. Read more about it on Authoring Tools page.


A New and Improved VDC!
Thursday, Jan 15, 2009
The site has gone through a major upgrade with many new editing features! Read more about the changes on the Release Notes page.


Source SDK Update
Wed Jul 09th, 2008
A new version of the Source SDK is now available.


SDK Development Discussion Forums
Thur May 17th, 2007
In order to better serve the Source SDK development community, new Source SDK discussion forums have been created on forums.steampowered.com. These new forums are a replacement for the VERC forums, which will be kept available for reference, but will be no longer open for new posts.

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