Take-Two acquisition and eventual closure It has even been suggested that Barking Dog Studios were 'the unsung heroes of Counter-Strike'. ĭespite the substantial contributions that Barking Dog Studios made to the game, they were only credited as a special thanks in the manual of the retail edition of the game. Barking Dog Studios also helped out in the development of the subsequent patch. In addition, the gameplay of both hostage rescue and bomb defusal scenarios was made a lot more straightforward by making hostages get automatically rescued in hostage rescue zones and restricting the planting of C4 to bombsites only. These included help messages and new HUD icons for the different zones. Various features that increased the user-friendliness of the game were also added. New maps were contributed by Barking Dog Studios designers Christopher Mair and Jamie Mactaggart in the form of Train and Backalley. The menu and HUD interface graphics were given a more consistent look by Popdog artist Cory Lake. Īll the new code for Beta 5 was the work of Barking Dog Studios and a lot of old code was cleaned up to fix old bugs. As Minh Le was very busy with his university studies at the time, around 90% of the changes and features introduced in Beta 5 were the work of Barking Dog Studios.

At the time, Barking Dog consisted of three distinct teams and their whole first-person shooter team, nicknamed Popdog, was assigned to the development of Counter-Strike.

The team at Barking Dog Studios had been playing Counter-Strike since the first beta, thus they were more than eager to help out. Valve Software offered to pay for the development as a sign of gratitude to the Half-Life community and its mod developers. When Valve Software became aware of this, they asked if Barking Dog would like to help out Minh Le in the development of Counter-Strike Beta 5.0. In 1999, Barking Dog Studios was doing some work for Valve Software and Barking Dog had hired Minh Le to do some work. Barking Dog Studios signed their first project, Homeworld: Cataclysm when the original Homeworld was still under development. 1.3 Take-Two acquisition and eventual closureīarking Dog Studios was founded on Jby former Radical Entertainment employees Brian Thalken, Peter Grant, Sean Thompson, Christopher Mair, Glenn Barnes and Michael Gyori.

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