Minh Le

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Minh Le (Vietnamese Lê Minh, born 1978), also known by his online nickname Gooseman, is a Vietnamese-Canadian computer game developer who created the popular Half-Life mod Counter-Strike with Jess Cliffe in 1999.

Le first picked up Quake in 1996 and began playing with the SDK. With it he created his first mod, called Navy SEALs. 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 in the GoldSrc engine while he was in the middle of his fourth year at Simon Fraser University (he later graduated with a degree in computer science). Le spent about 20 hours a week on making the mod, expending more effort on it than he did on his schoolwork, and beta 1.0 was released in June 1999.

Le joined Valve Software in Bellevue, Washington, USA in 2000 where he continued to work on Counter-Strike and related games. Le left Valve to work on a project of his own. The project which he is working on is currently unknown.

In 2003, a GameSpy editorial cited Minh Le as the most important reason Half-Life was still popular five years after it was released. [1]

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  1. ^ Kevin Bowen (2003-02-09). Top Ten Reasons Half-Life is Still #1. Retrieved on 2006-12-02.

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NAME Le, Minh
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lê Minh; Gooseman
SHORT DESCRIPTION Vietnamese-Canadian computer game developer who created the mod Counter-Strike
DATE OF BIRTH 1978
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