Contrary to its usual image as a company open to fan games and mods, Valve has taken down two well-known community projects.
Both Portal 64, a demake to port the original Portal to the N64, and Team Fortress: Source 2, an effort to “recreate a new [Team Fortress] experience” in the Source 2 engine, were targeted by Valve.
On 10th January, the creators of each project released statements confirming the end of development and that each will no longer be available to download.
Portal 64 developer James Lambert released First Slice, containing the first 13 test chambers from the game, on 29th December. But on 10th January, he took the project offline. On Patreon (via Time Extension), Lambert revealed Valve had reached out and asked him to take the project down, a request he decided to comply with. Lambert stated the reason why Valve wanted him to stop development on Portal 64 was its dependence on “Nintendo’s proprietary libraries”.