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"Learned Early On: You Killed It, You Eat It"
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Reviews:
what users say about the Almanac
Updated January 11, 2004 |
"When it comes to HL editing, Handy Vandal's Almanac is THE FIRST place I go to with questions. You are like a Norse god and it is your bible !"
"I've always enjoyed your site, and was like my number one resource when I was learning to map."
"Like the site! Very informative."
"I'm a new user to Hammer and so have been using your top site for help."
"I just wanted to thank you for creating this website. I have used it often and it was instrumental in helping me create my SP HL Add-on [Minimicus]. I was always able to find something here for whatever subject I needed to research. Long ago as a noobie, I might have given up mapping if not for your site."
"Learnt all I know from this site. Much respect."
"I can't wait to start mapping for HL-2 and look forward to working with you in the future, your site is THE site for mappers hands down."
"Your site is great, it has helped me a lot with map design and things to put in my maps."
"The greatest site EVER!!! You rule!"
"I learned how to map from your site! Your site rocks!! I've got mad links to your site throughout my site: Half-Life 2 Source."
"This is the best website about half life ever before. i always come here when i have trouble."
"NICE WEBSITE :D ... helped me ALOT."
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"Awesome site, been using it for years! Keep up the good work! ; )"
"Great site mate."
"I admired your site ever since I started mapping years ago. Often visited your site. Thanks for all the help (links). I thought I'd give something back by hosting Eyeronik's and Tommy's tutorials."
"Nice Site."
"This website is useful and very helpful ... keep the good work up."
"I've been making levels for just over a month now. I always use your Handy Vandal's Almanac resources for pretty much every thing I've made. I would just like to say it's an excellent site, I don't know what I would have done without it."
"Hi Handy Vandal, you recently posted a response to my killtarget question on the TWHL website. I just wanted to say thanks. I also wanted to thank you for providing this website. I I have been mapping for about 2 years and your site is the most valuable asset I have in my arsenal of mapping help. I probably would have given up mapping long ago if not for your site. Every mapping problem I have ever needed to solve, I was able to solve by beginning at your site. Thanks! I was honored that you answered my post."
"Brill site - helped me a lot."
"Good work ... loads of information."
"It really is a great site. Keep up the good work. I appreciate it and I am sure the community does as well."
"Glad to see you're still updating one of the most respected HL sites on the net."
"I just want to say thank you for making the half-life mapping guide. When I first started mapping years ago I found your page a great help."
"Your site's been a great help to me during my mapping exploits."
"If it was not for this site I would have been totally lost in WorldCraft. Thanks."
"Your site has been a GREAT help to making my map ... my map wouldn't exist at all without this site. Thanks for all the effort."
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"As i'm new to level design, i can't thank u enough for the fantastic work u'd done with your tutorials. it's very helpful and easily understood, just what i've been looking for. thanks again."
"And your site, has very much liked me. Many useful advice and a heap of cool links. Continue in the same way!"
"Nice and very Helpful site for newbies like me :)!"
"Great website, a lot of great info. Thank you."
"I am a great fan of you and your work."
"You Rock. Thanks for the excellent web-site. I bought my first copy of Half-Life two months ago. Now I'm making maps, tweaking with the SDK, and basically spending every waking hour knee-deep in the frag -- all this thanks to you and your outstanding website. "Your simple method of cross-referencing Half-Life lingo with everyday English is an example I think the entire programming world needs to follow. Sure, it's great to read about things like vertex manipulation and HLVIS compiler options, but not a lot of people know (or care) about the importance of having links to resources which not only explain how to use these things, but why you'd want to use these things (or avoid using them). "I think a lot of programmers tend to forget that the most difficult part of any new programming experience is simply learning the language. You've done a great job of reaching through the bubble and pulling the newbie in on his own terms (now, of course, he's having trouble getting out). "Thanks for making Half-Life even more fun!" Matt Blevins - mattergy@home.com -Dec. 2001 "It's cool having your Almanac ... a great resource." kevin "runab0ut" navia - runabout@crosswinds.net - Sept. 2001 |
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"As soon as I discovered your site I was amazed. Great links and helped me create advanced entities along with fixing my compile errors." Greg Clary - packers4@maine.rr.com - July 2001 "I'd be nowhere without the Almanac." James - james@begent.co.uk - Sept. 2001 "Nice site. Thanks." Broos / Corpsinhere - shout@castles.com - July 2001 "Great Stuff !!!!" Edmund Dickinson - eddie_dson@hotmail.com - Aug. 2001 "Awesome site. Xen Rebels looks INCREDIBLE. It's just what I always dreamed with a xen twist, oddly...good luck!" Ms.Maul - kalcat@pacbell.net - July 2001 "I would like to thank you for the tremendous help you are offering all the newbies like myself :)" Sune Volfing - pnebs@worldonline.dk - July 2001 "Your site has been the key to my success." Craig Pierson - capiers@socal.rr.com - June 2001 |
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"Thanks for creating such a great resource .... Your site is helping me out IMMENSELY!' Steve McCallum - steve-mc@home.net - June 2001 "I love your almanac. You rule." Mr. Rizzo - May 2001 "I love your Hany Vandal site. It's the most valuable tool for editing that I know of :)" Ellis Farmer - saxywolf@hotmail.com - May 2001 "Vandal - U RULE!" Steve MacCullum - steve-mc@home.net - March 2001 "Your page is awesome and I use it all the time." Nick Johnson - nick@caseynet.com - Feb. 2001 "Great resource, responsible for the large saddlebags that sit under my eyes." Danny Hinchin - danny@sps.net.sa - March 2001 "Thanks for your dedication to running THE best HL reference site on the net." Richard Beech - richardb@climax.co.uk - Feb 2001 |
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"Thanx you've really been a big help to me and my mapping efforts. Thanx again." ASQMD-lixid - lixid@esedona.net - March 2001 "I just had to drop you a note to say what a great job you do for us HL (and other) gamedesigners. I am a hobbyist/wannabepro leveldesigner and just a minute ago a question popped up once again that had been bugging me for some time and again your almanac came to the rescue with a link to the info I needed. "This
is what it should be about: "Keep it up man, we love you for it!" Brite
- brigante@jippii.fi - March 2001 "The closest thing we have to an ULTIMATE editing site. " Peter
Goudswaard - pet99@home.com - Feb. 2001 |
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"Your site is an incredible resource!" Mataleone
- mataleone@yahoo.com - Jan. 2001 "Your site rocks as an index!" Peter
Lok - peterlok@hotmail.com - Dec. 2000 "I just wanted to say that this site is quite impressive ,,, good job on the website, thanks." Mick G - vindicator_223@hotmail.com - Dec. 2000 "I just wanna say that your site has really helped me edit HL ... Thanx man" AX - ax@one.net.au - Dec. 2000 "By the way, your site kicks ass. I use it all of the time. Thanks." Matt Silverado - Ride5450@hotmail.com - Dec. 2000 "BTW fan bloody tastic site :)" Jason Owen - sckraken@shadowco.freeserve.co.uk - Nov. 2000 "Congrats on a great website - god knows how u get the time to do something as cool as that. Keep up the good work dude." Steve Ward - steve800h@hotmail.com - Nov. 2000
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"Your site has helped my mapping skills out immensely. Thanx for all the help and skills." - Ken Bryant - thugdaddy@planethalflife.com - August 2000 "I love this site ... it has taught me so much about editing ... great job ... you've been a saint to all mappers." - Greg Hartwig - ghartwig@fidnet.com - August 2000 "Your Almanac site is the BEST Half-Life editing resource I've ever run across! Thanks for making this resource available (heaven knows how much longer it would take to find simple tutorials, etc. without it!)" - Tom Claydon - clayhead@att.net - August 2000 "I am very happy to have found your site. A very good one!" - Marcus Wendt - marcus.wendt@gmx.de - July 2000 "Awsome site .... Keep on rockin." - Pete - GeNeRaL321@aol.com - July 2000 "I know I have praised you before, but one time just doesn't seem enough. The mere existance of your site has saved a small village from getting eradicated by a frustrated knifeman. You are the one who gives me relief from the desperate pain of ignorance, which is not a bliss but a burden. Without you, the stress would have degenerated my brains and all the remains of reasonable logical thinking typical to human beings would have concentrated on different ways to kill very painfully. If it has been written so, my coming level will rise up from the shadows to the light and glory and I shall be a celebrated hero second only to you." - Kahvi - tualvi@mantta.fi - July 2000 - see Kahvi page - |
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Your site is the first place I go to for editing help. Keep up the great work!" - Bapman - bapmurray@freewwweb.com - July 2000 "I decided to get into mapping again, and wanted to tell you thanks for your site. It's helping me get started again. Just wanted to let you know what you do here is appreciated." - JP - jlparham1@home.com - June 2000 "I've been using your Handy Vandal site for ages - it's great!" - Steve Cook - stevegcook@yahoo.co.uk - June 2000 "Your 'Handy Vandals' site is very impressive! Thanks for assembling and maintaining such a great source of references for Half-Life and related editors." - Scott Jordan - jordanms@sjordan.com - June 2000 |
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"Thank you for your great page! It's my most important source of HL editing information." - Crid - Crid@gmx.de - June 1999 "While not as flashy, your website is the undisputed best for Half-Life level builders. You don't have much redundancy either, and link directly to those who have written stuff up before. It's functional, quick to use, easy to navigate, and that's all that matters. Kudos." David Neelands - davidn@ccgnv.net - July 1999 "I just wanted to thank you for your unbelievably helpful Almanac. I can find everything I want here that has to do with HL Editing, and I browse on through probably ten times a day. Again, thanks, and keep up the good work." -- J. Terry a.k.a. The Fixxxer - justerry@mako.com - November 1999 - "I also want to thank you for your page, I have learned so much from it!" - Kelly McClintock - tincan17@netwiz.net - July 1999 |
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"Great site, has been an invaluable aid." - Andrew Taylor - andrew@disco-a-gogo.freeserve.co.uk - Nov. '99 "Great pages! Thanks for your efforts." - Desmond Fletcher - desmond.fletcher@usm.edu - Oct. '99 "A great site ...!! Keep up the good work." - Kelvyn Bartlett - bart2000@clara.co.uk - Jan. 2000 |
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"I can see from what you sent me that you're a busy guy ... thanks again for the volunteer work you do for the gaming community." - Steve Everman - evermans@ix.netcom.com - Dec. '99 "Keep up with the good work ... your web page has made [fixing game design problems] less of a headache." - Heath Fedorczak - grizzly302@mediaone.net - Sept. 99 "Thanks man, that's a great help, your site is the best I've found." - Sam Wright - samwright34@hotmail.com - Jan. 2000 "Great site you've got ... keep up the great work." - Lard - lard@gamedesign.net - Dec. '99 "Your site has an incredible amount of help." - Mad Doc - maddoc1@home.com - Nov. '99 "Thanks for the help you gave me ... making maps for Half-Life -- I wouldn't known most of the tricks and Tutorials without your web page." - Wayne Ranger - renagade@upnaway.com - Dec. '99 "Keep up the legendary work!" - Ozz. - hennessym@oceanfree.net - Jan. '97? |
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