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Old 08-15-2008, 12:46 PM   #22
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Originally Posted by Josho View Post
BTW, for any interested parties out there still reading this thread: in the entire history of Sierra On-Line, there was one -- one, and only one -- game that was developed on the basis of a concept submitted by somebody outside of the company.

The people that submitted it, BTW, had turned it into a complete, fully-functional game before they submitted it. Sierra redesigned it graphically from the bottom up, rewrote pretty much all the text, but kept the gameplay almost identical to the submitted version.

Can anyone name that game?

--Josh
My first thought was Half-Life, but I don't know how much influence Sierra had on the development of that game. I've always considered Half-Life a Valve game published by Sierra. It's probably an earlier game from the days when Sierra actually developed games in-house.
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