Leak-Free

Leak-Free (LF) is a Source Developer Community based around in various locations throughout the world, including Australia, Europe and the Americas. Leak-Free has had different stages over the year representing how many times the community has started over from hacks made on the site and forums. So far Leak-Free has started over 3 times and runs under LF3 for short.

Origin
Leak-Free was created to help prevent the piracy of the source code before Half-Life 2 ' s release, it gave a community where gamers of HL could gather and talk, and look forward collectively to the release of HL2 and HL: Source upon its release some members of the community became dissatisfied with the direction taken by Valve with Half-Life, as was most of the community.

Then talk of creating a new Half-Life started which gave birth to Black Mesa: Source, which later broke off from Leak-Free and became Black Mesa. Since then Leak-Free has gone through many trials mostly due to association with the major mod. In fact many believe Leak-Free came from Black Mesa, but since then they have become a community of Source enthusiasts. Creating a fun forum where comic makers, modders and gamers can co exist.

Purpose
Leak-Free uses Valve's source engine to make maps and textures. They also use the HL2 mod Garry's Mod to make comics about themselves in a sitcom style fashion, some comics being episodic. Leak-Free has a range of different people doing different things, modelers, mappers, musicians, texture artists, technical support helpers, but there are some people there who don't have any real skills and just stay there to chat with the other forum members.

Comics
Using Garry's Mod and various image editing programs, Leak-Free members made comics using their selected avatar to represent them. The 'Leak-Free Office' or HQ is the cs_office map from Counter-Strike: Source, this is where the majority of comics are set.

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