Half-Life Series

My labor of love, a partially crowdfunded, three-part series based on the greatest video game character of all time is now complete. Enjoy.

“Yo Showtime, HBO, Netflix, Hulu, hell– Youtube: Pick this show up. Give these guys a bigger budget. And TAKE. MY. MONEY.”

– Youtube commenter: Nick

I finished my long-running Half-Life series the Freeman Chronicles, and it quickly reached a million views. Three episodes over their lifetime have amassed more than 10 million minutes watched and about half of the viewers watched them in their entirety. The views are significant as a YouTube view is counted after 30 seconds of viewing.

How it came about

I conceived the idea of The Freeman Chronicles when working on a different project with actor Bernhard Forcher. I suggested that since he was a dead ringer for Gordon Freeman that we should make a short film together.

The short film became the first episode in a series. It was made in Hollywood for about $3000 and released on Machinimas Youtube network. It received over 1.2 million views before it was removed in 2018. Shortly after it’s release, two crowdfunding events occurred raising $22,265 and $26,149 respectively, to fund more of the series.

The second episode was released July 20th, 2017 and the final episode was released December 24th, 2018, releasing before Bad Robot and Valve Corporation‘s confirmed official movie currently in the script phase.

There are thousands of requests for a series in the comments.

Half-life The Freeman Chronicles availability

The three-part series is available on YouTube along with several behind-the-scenes videos and cast and crew commentaries. Subtitled in over 20 languages by the community.

Production Diary

If you want to see how I made it in a lot more detail, like how I made the suit, or location scouting.

PRODUCTION – HALF-LIFE: THE FREEMAN CHRONICLES