Minh Le

For the chess player, see Lê Tuấn Minh.
Minh Le
Born (1977-06-27) June 27, 1977 (age 47)
Vietnam
NationalityCanadian
Other namesGooseman
Alma materSimon Fraser University
OccupationVideo game programmer
Years active1996-present
Employers
Known forCo-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 Half-Life mod Counter-Strike with Jess Cliffe in 1999 and started the Counter-Strike series.[2] He was later employed by Valve, the developers of Half-Life, and worked for 8 years in Korea on the multiplayer first-person shooter Tactical Intervention. He is 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.[3]

  1. ^ "Devblog 196". Facepunch Studios. 1 February 2018. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
  2. ^ Minh Le (2015-12-03). "Minh Le's tweet confirming birth year".
  3. ^ Rose, Mike (22 January 2014). "Minh "Gooseman" Le plays CS:GO with Gamasutra". Gamasutra. Think Services. Retrieved 23 January 2014.