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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 (http://www.half-life2.com), 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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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.


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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.

For Mod Teams

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Doublearrow.gif Read Making a Mod - building a team through the shipping process.
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Doublearrow.gif New to Source coding? Get started with basic programming articles.
Doublearrow.gif Read (or add!) a tutorial on Source development, or any part of the content creation process.

   

Latest News

Source SDK Beta Available
Wed Jun 12th, 2008
A new Source SDK Beta is now available for testing.


Source SDK Update
Thursday April 30th, 2008
A new version of the Source SDK is now available.


Source SDK Update Available
Monday Mar 24th, 2008
A new version of the Source SDK is now available. The Source SDK beta is no longer available.


Source SDK Update
Thursday, Nov 14th, 2007
An update to the Source SDK version is now available. This update adds support for games included in The Orange Box (http://www.steampowered.com/v/index.php?area=package&SubId=469&).


SDK Development Discussion Forums
Thur May 17th, 2007
In order to better serve the Source SDK development community, new Source SDK discussion forums (http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=191) 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.