Jess Cliffe
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Jess Cliffe is a Valve Software computer game designer and co-creator of Counter-Strike
with Minh Le
(aka Gooseman). He is the "voice of Counter-Strike" via the radio
commands and sound effects.
He grew up in New Jersey
and went to North Hunterdon High School
in Annandale, New Jersey
before attending Virginia Tech
from 1999-2003. After graduating he took a job with Valve Software and is currently a game designer for them, and also working on maps for Half-Life: Deathmatch.
While still attending college Cliffe ran a site named "Silo X" for Half-Life. The website's main purpose was to enable map/level designers to upload their maps and get them to major audiences world wide. When working together with Minh Le on the first Counter-Strike version, Jess Cliffe quit working for the "Silo X" website and was followed up by Tom Konings known as HaLf-DeAd in the Half-Life gaming community. When Half-Life became outdated the "Silo X" website shut down.
In the late 1990s, Cliffe was also a moderator and leader of the group JKMAG, otherwise known as the Jedi Knight Multiplayer Addon Group, an online community dedicated to providing customized map and skin packs for the Jedi Knight community.
It could also be noted that the popular Counter-Strike map, "cs_militia" is based in and on the vicinity of Cliffe's house.
Since May 2007, Cliffe has been running the blog http://VintageSeattle.org, "a high-resolution blog visualizing Seattle's past," whose goal is "to document the city's history by way of old photographs, vintage postcards, advertisements, historic building profiles, etc."
Counter-Strike
Counter-Strike is a tactical first-person shooter video game developed by Valve Corporation which originated from a Half-Life modification by Minh "Gooseman" Le and Jess "Cliffe" Cliffe...
with Minh Le
Minh Le
Minh Le , also known by his online nickname Gooseman, is a Vietnamese-Canadian computer game developer who co-created the popular Half-Life mod Counter-Strike with Jess Cliffe in 1999...
(aka Gooseman). He is the "voice of Counter-Strike" via the radio
Radio
Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...
commands and sound effects.
He grew up in New Jersey
New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...
and went to North Hunterdon High School
North Hunterdon High School
North Hunterdon High School is a four-year public high school located in Clinton Township, New Jersey, serving students from six municipalities in northern Hunterdon County as one of two high schools in the North Hunterdon-Voorhees Regional High School District...
in Annandale, New Jersey
Annandale, New Jersey
Annandale is a census-designated place and unincorporated area located within Clinton Township, in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. As of the United States 2000 Census, the CDP population was 1,276...
before attending Virginia Tech
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, popularly known as Virginia Tech , is a public land-grant university with the main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia with other research and educational centers throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States, and internationally.Founded in...
from 1999-2003. After graduating he took a job with Valve Software and is currently a game designer for them, and also working on maps for Half-Life: Deathmatch.
While still attending college Cliffe ran a site named "Silo X" for Half-Life. The website's main purpose was to enable map/level designers to upload their maps and get them to major audiences world wide. When working together with Minh Le on the first Counter-Strike version, Jess Cliffe quit working for the "Silo X" website and was followed up by Tom Konings known as HaLf-DeAd in the Half-Life gaming community. When Half-Life became outdated the "Silo X" website shut down.
In the late 1990s, Cliffe was also a moderator and leader of the group JKMAG, otherwise known as the Jedi Knight Multiplayer Addon Group, an online community dedicated to providing customized map and skin packs for the Jedi Knight community.
It could also be noted that the popular Counter-Strike map, "cs_militia" is based in and on the vicinity of Cliffe's house.
Since May 2007, Cliffe has been running the blog http://VintageSeattle.org, "a high-resolution blog visualizing Seattle's past," whose goal is "to document the city's history by way of old photographs, vintage postcards, advertisements, historic building profiles, etc."