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The Making Of Dust (2003)
For a long while Dust was the world's most-played Counter-Strike map and it's still the one for which I am best known. Yet few players realise it was the product of thievery and luck...
Personal website of Dave Johnston, software engineer and creator of de_dust and de_dust2 for Counter-Strike.
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For a long while Dust was the world's most-played Counter-Strike map and it's still the one for which I am best known. Yet few players realise it was the product of thievery and luck...
How Counter-Strike map credits led to my email address being harvested by worms, and why I had to ask my ISP to blackhole it.