Background
Born in 1960, Laguna Beach, California. Studied in the University of Oregon. Published his first novel in 1985. Worked as a legal secretary in San Francisco.
Born in 1960, Laguna Beach, California. Studied in the University of Oregon. Published his first novel in 1985. Worked as a legal secretary in San Francisco.
Marc Laidlaw studied at University of Oregon. He tried and was discouraged by punched card computer programming.
Working with game designers led him to feel that he wanted to help design an actual game. He joined Valve on July 14, 1997 while they were developing Half-Life and worked on the game's story and level design. At Valve, he later worked on the Half-Life's expansions (even though his precise input is not clearly known) and Half-Life 2 and its episodes.
The latter episodes were co-written with the creators of Old Man Murray, Erik Wolpaw and Chet Faliszek, whom he shares an office with at Valve. All three also co-wrote the story for Portal. He states about Wolpaw and Faliszek on his personal blog that "for years, Chet and Erik were legendary figures of mythic status to me. They still are, except now I can throw things over my shoulder and hit them."