Brett Johnson

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|birth=September 8th, 1970http//www.brett3d.com/about.html "About" section on Brett Johnson's personal website
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|occupation=*Level designer
*Composer
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'''Brett Johnson''' is a level designer and composer who worked for Valve from December 1996 to April 1999.http//www.brett3d.com/resumehtm.html Brett Johnson's Resume His List of minor Black Mesa employees appears in ''Half-Life'' as an Easter egg on a Sector C locker and can be List of minor Black Mesa employees 2|heard in announcements.

==Biography==
{{ParagraphQuote|Brett's craftsmanship as a musician is matched only by his ability to create traps which snare, snag and frag unwary explorers in 3D environments. Valve lured Brett mid-way through his final year at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a promising career in biochemistry. A hard-assed New Yorker, Brett continues to deny Seattle's claim to being the birthplace of espresso.|http//web.archive.org/web/19980216132320/http//valvesoftware.com/people.htm Source|February 16, 1998}}

==Work==
Brett Johnson created one third of the levels for ''Half-Life'', including texturing, lighting, and scripting. He established the design foundation, and was one of the developers of the scripting system used in the game.
===''Half-Life'' (1998)===
*The Anti-Mass Spectrometerhttp//brett3d.com/ld_fps.html ''Half-Life'' section on Brett Johnson's personal website
*The Black Mesa desert
*The Portal Device
*Sector B
*Sector C
*Sector G
*''Stalkyard''
*The Topside Motorpool
*Xenhttp//web.archive.org/web/19991001152131/http//www.halflife.org/articles/article2-page7.html Behind Valve Software's Closed Doors - Brett Johnson

==Gallery==
===Pre-release===

Filehl early BJ 27.jpg|"The cages."
Filehl early BJ 28.jpg|"Searching for a 'Look'."
FileHL early pistol.JPG|Ditto.
Filehl early BJ 30.jpg|"First '3DFX' Shot", with an wikipediaUnited States Department of Defense|U.S.D.D. logo on the floor.
File0001-3dfx barney3 fall.jpg|Ditto.
FileMP barney.jpg|Ditto.
FileHLPF 18.png|"Original Control Room."
FileHl early BJ 32.jpg|An unseen area.
FileHl early BJ 32a.jpg|Ditto.
FileBullchicken white close-up.jpg|Ditto.
Filehl early BJ 33.jpg|"Industrial Arts".
FileRats crate.jpg|Ditto.
FileSewer hgrunt.jpg|Ditto.
Filehl early BJ 34.jpg|"Setting The Tone".
FileIronic injury sign.jpg|Ditto.

===Retail===

FileC1a0 computer.jpg|A large computer room in the Anomalous Materials Laboratories.
FileC1a0e beam03.jpg|The Anti-Mass Spectrometer.
FileC1a1c canal02.jpg|Sector B's Lower Canal.
FileC2a5 dam02.jpg|The Black Mesa dam.
FileCliffs HECU.jpg|The Black Mesa desert.
FileBMRF helipad Osprey.jpg|The Topside Motorpool.
FileXen islands 1.jpg|Xen.
FileAlien grunt factory first.jpg|The mines.


==Selected gameography==
*''Half-Life'' (1998)
*''Half-Life Opposing Force'' (1999)

==References==
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==External links==
*http//brett3d.com Brett Johnson's personal website
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