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Minh Le (Vietnamese: Lê Minh, born June 27, 1977), also known by his online nickname Gooseman, is a Canadian video game programmer who co-created the popular ''Half-Life'' mod ''Counter-Strike'' with Jess Cliffe in 1999. He was later employed by Valve Software, the developers of ''Half-Life'', and worked for 8 years in Korea on the multiplayer first-person shooter ''Tactical Intervention''. He is currently a contractor on the multiplayer first-person shooter ''Rust''. In the small-team games that he has worked on, Le has been a programmer, modeler, and designer. His nickname comes from Shane Gooseman, one of the main characters of 1980s cartoon series ''The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers''. ==Career== Le first picked up id Software's ''Quake'' in 1996 and began playing with its software development kit, and after about a year he completed his first mod, ''Navy SEALs'', Counter-Strike's spiritual predecessor.〔 〕 While he was working on the ''Action Quake 2'' mod, he came up with the idea for ''Counter-Strike'' and became friends with AQ2's webmaster Jess Cliffe. Le began work on ''Counter-Strike'' as a mod for ''Half-Life'' while he was in the middle of his fourth year at Simon Fraser University〔 (he later graduated with a degree in computer science). He spent about 20 hours a week on making the mod, expending more effort on it than he did on his schoolwork,〔 and released the first beta version in June 1999. The "Counter-Strike Team" quickly produced several more beta releases in the following months as the game's popularity skyrocketed.〔 By the fourth beta version, Valve Software, the developer who created ''Half-Life'', began assisting in the development of ''Counter-Strike''.〔 〕 In 2000, Valve bought the rights to ''Counter-Strike'' and hired Le and Cliffe to work with them in Bellevue, Washington, USA where Le continued to work on ''Counter-Strike'' and related games. During this time he was developing ''Counter-Strike 2'', however Valve eventually put this project on hold indefinitely. After ''Counter-Strike 2'' was shelved, Le left Valve to work on a project of his own.〔 After two years working with a small team on this project, he then moved to South Korea in 2008 to work with a business named FIX Korea who provided funding for further development. Le's new game was later revealed to be ''Tactical Intervention'', a game similar in style to ''Counter-Strike'' created with a modified version of Valve's Source engine. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Minh Le」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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