Trailer
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Teaser
The real date when the Teaser was released is unknown, even by the Development Team [1]. The only estimated date given is in the James McVinnie's Youtube Channel, where the video was uploaded for the first time: Jan 26, 2007.
From the video description on Youtube: "The BM team asked me to make them their trailers for the game. This is the FIRST one i did for them." [2]
The background music was produced by Joel Nielsen.
Trailer
The Black Mesa Trailer was made by James McVinnie -- the producer of the Teaser -- after two weeks of production, and released to the public on November 30, 2008. Tools used in the production: Fraps, Adobe After Effects CS3, Sony Vegas Pro 8, Source SDK and Source DemoSmoother [3]. The background music - "Black Mesa Trailer 2 Music" - was produced by Joel Nielsen with a mix of "new music track and a bunch of the ingame sound effects to give everyone a bit of a taste of what it will be like" [4].
Although the trailer states that Black Mesa will be released in "2009," this was proven to be inaccurate [5]. This date was originally a sef-imposed goal that the team set in late 2008, but due to many individual life aspects of the team members and the Black Mesa development over the course of 2009, it became obvious that they couldn't finish the mod within the date [6]. Since then, the team changed the goal to a "when it's done" approach, and decided to add more features that previously would not have been included by lack of time [7].
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