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It took Dan Fearon 17 years to get his game on Steam. In early 1999, when Y2K threatened the world and Fatboy Slim's Praise You topped the UK singles chart, Fearon ran a fansite named Atomic Half-Life dedicated to Valve's then newly released sci-fi shooter. "I'd always been interested in coop games," he tells me. "I loved playing local coops like Rainbow Island on arcade machines when they were still around."
Much to Fearon's frustration, Half-Life didn't support cooperative play by default. And so, with a scant understanding of coding by way of crude experimentation in his youth, he set about changing that. Fearon - who went by the online pseudonym Sven Viking - designed his first cooperative Half-Life map and published it on his site. It was called svencoop.
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