Minh "Gooseman" Le
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Minh Le in 2013
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| Born | 27 June 1977 |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Other names | Gooseman |
| Alma mater | Simon Fraser University |
| Occupation | Video game programmer |
| Years active | 1996-present |
| Employer | FIX Korea (2009–2013) Facepunch Studios (2013–2018) Pearl Abyss (2018–Present) |
| Known for | Co-creator of Counter-Strike |
Minh Le (Vietnamese: Lê Minh, born June 27, 1977), also known by his online nickname Gooseman, is a Vietnamese Canadian video game programmer who co-created the popular Half-Life mod Counter-Strike with Jess Cliffe in 1999. He was later employed by Valve Corporation, the developers of Half-Life, and worked for 8 years in Korea on the multiplayer first-person shooter Tactical Intervention. He is currently a contractor on the multiplayer survival first-person shooter Rust. In the small-team games that he has worked on, Le has been a programmer, modeler, and designer.
His nickname comes from Shane Gooseman, one of the main characters of 1980s cartoon series The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers.
Le first picked up id Software's Quake in 1996 and began playing with its software development kit, and after about a year he completed his first mod, Navy SEALs, Counter-Strike's spiritual predecessor. While he was working on the Action Quake 2 mod, he came up with the idea for Counter-Strike and became friends with AQ2's webmaster Jess Cliffe.
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