Background
Christopher Livingston started working on Concerned as a hobby. He had previously considered developing a webcomic that would parallel the storyline of a game from start to finish, based on the original 1987 Legend of Zelda for the Nintendo Entertainment System. He chose the Half-Life 2 game world as the scene for his comic because he was a fan, and because the availability of Garry's Mod eliminated the need to draw by hand. He always intended the plot of the comic to end at the same point as the game.
Livingston thought a comic would be a good way to introduce humor to the game, which he has described as "mysterious, moody, immersive".
Well, I thought Half-Life 2 was a great game, but there simply weren't enough jokes about toilets in it. So, I thought a comic would be a good place to get some humor into the game. I came up with the idea for Frohman, a complete idiot, to play all the way through the game, just like Freeman only instead of being a hero, he'd be a complete fool. —Christopher C. LivingstonRead more about this topic: Concerned
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