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| Developer(s) | Team Dystopia Puny Human |
| Designer(s) | Dustin "Teddy" Hulm Robert "Fuzzy" Crouch Tim "Termi" Grant |
| Engine | Source |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows |
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| Genre(s) | First-person shooter |
| Mode(s) | Multiplayer |
Dystopia is a team-based, objective-driven, first-person shooter video game, developed as a total conversion modification on the Valve's proprietary Source engine. It is based on the cyberpunk literary and aesthetic genre; it is somewhat based on popular role-playing game Shadowrun, created by an amateur development team and released to the public for free. Its first playable build was released on September 9, 2005,[1] after a year of planning and nine months of development. The first full version of Dystopia, Version 1, was released after 3 years of development on February 25, 2007.
Dystopia has been received positively from critics, with praise being given for its graphical quality, unique meatspace/cyberspace gameplay, overall polish and its representation of cyberspace. Criticisms of Dystopia were aimed at how inaccessible the game is at first, and its learning curve.[citation needed] The game has won several awards, including Best Mod for Half-Life 2 from the Independent Games Festival's Modding Competition.[2]
- ^ "Dystopia: Cyberpunk Half-Life 2 mod released". Engadget. 2005-09-12. Retrieved 2020-04-10.
- ^ "2006 Finalists and Winners". Independent Games Festival. Archived from the original on 4 June 2016. Retrieved 6 April 2012.