Marc Laidlaw

Developer BIO

Marc Laidlaw is the author of half a dozen strange novels, including Dad's Nuke and The 37th Mandala. He is also the person most responsible for making sure the edgy and intense Half-Life storyline worked in the game.

While writing a cover-story about Quake for Wired Magazine, he determined that level designers had the coolest jobs on earth--although the fact that he'd been working as a legal secretary for 10 years might have warped his perceptions very slightly. Oddly, he refuses to do anyone else's typing.

He is currently a Writer/Game Designer with Valve.

Also Known As

• Mark Laidlaw

Websites

• Not So Few Monstrosities -- Marc Laidlaw's personal blog.
• Interview with Marc Laidlaw (CVG, Dec. 23, 2006) -- Valve Software's plot man and the guy who puts story in front of the crowbar

Games Credited

Left 4 Dead 2 (2009), Valve Corporation
Left 4 Dead (2008), Valve Corporation
Half-Life 2: Episode Two (2007), Buka Entertainment
The Orange Box (2007), Valve Corporation
Portal (2007), Buka Entertainment
Half-Life 2: Episode One (2006), Valve Corporation
Counter-Strike: Source (2004), Valve Corporation
Half-Life 2 (2004), Valve Corporation
Half-Life (2001), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
Half-Life: Blue Shift (2001), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
Half-Life (Game of the Year Edition) (1999), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
Half-Life: Opposing Force (1999), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
Half-Life (1998), Sierra On-Line, Inc.