They still are, except now I can throw things over my shoulder and hit them." He stated about Wolpaw and Faliszek on his personal blog that "for years, Chet and Erik were legendary figures of mythic status to me. All three also co-wrote the story for Portal. The latter episodes were co-written with the creators of Old Man Murray, Erik Wolpaw and Chet Faliszek, whom he shared an office with at Valve. 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. He joined Valve (J) while they were developing Half-Life and worked on the game's story and level design. Working with game designers led him to feel that he wanted to help design an actual game. His favorite PC game of all time is Thief: The Dark Project. With his new-found interest, he wrote The Third Force (1996), a tie-in novel based on the world created for the video game Gadget. He was obsessed over Myst and bought a new computer so that he could play it at his San Francisco home.
It was not until Myst was released that his perception of these games changed.
Laidlaw had played computer and arcade games, but was not intrigued. This was followed by several more novels over the next decade, but he worked as a legal secretary in San Francisco for a living. He wrote short stories and his first novel, Dad's Nuke, was published in 1985. Laidlaw was born in 1960 and raised in Laguna Beach, California, he attended the University of Oregon where he tried, and was discouraged by, punch card computer programming.
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