Details emerge on Prospero, the Valve game that never was

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Before Half-Life became a staple of the first-person shooter genre, Valve Software had a game in pre-production codenamed Prospero. Now, new details and screenshots have emerged from this near mythic unreleased game in the latest episode of YouTube series ValveTime.
But first, some background. In 1996 the recently founded Valve was deciding between one of two projects to pursue whole hog: Quiver and Prospero. At some point Quiver became Half-Life and the rest is history. But what of Prospero?
According to David Hodgson's book, Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar, Prospero was going to be "a moody, literary game, drawing on sources ranging from Myst to (Jorge Luis) Borges."
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