All right, smart guy... you say you're tired of waiting over 11 years now for Valve to release a promised new Half-Life installment? You say you've had it with the countless broken promises and vague hints that "Episode 3" still exists in some form? You say you know exactly what Valve needs to do to make the sequel everyone has been wanting for years?

Well, prove it. Now you can attempt to make your own version of Half Life 3, if you're so danged smart.

Developer Laura Michet Frog Fractions 2 ) and her Itch.io page will host the Epistle 3 Game Jam from now through the end of October. The premise is simple: "Marc Laidlaw has released a genderswapped Half Life 3 plot synopsis on his blog," Michet writes. "Some say the dream is dead. WE SAY... THE OPPOSITE. Half Life 3 is finally free, where it belongs: out in the world, with us. Half Life 3 belongs to the people. LET'S MAKE IT." There are no restrictions for submissions, only a requirement to use Laidlaw's plot in whole or in part.

So, smarties, get to it. Former Valve scribe Laidlaw already did half the work for you by releasing a thinly veiled, "fanfic" plot synopsis for the game last week. Need more inspiration? Check out the recent partial release of the Half Life 2: Aftermath mod, which includes 11 leaked "gameplay experiment" levels purportedly created by Valve in 2012 and 2013 (not to be confused with an earlier leaked multiplayer mod).

Even though there's roughly two months to go until the game jam's October 31 deadline, 118 active participants are already working to prove their ideas for Half-Life 3 are better than yours. That includes four already submitted entries, among them a tongue-in-cheek battle between "a sentient race of grievances" and "The Valve."

Surely you can do better than that, can't you? What are you waiting for? I mean you've been complaining about the sequel's absence for so long, surely you have some good ideas about how it should look, right? Well, come on... time to put your game design skills where your mouth is. Or, maybe you'd rather just leave some trolly Dota 2 user reviews instead?