I as well as many others have been enjoying Valve’s new game Left4Dead and whilst I was enjoying the Match Making system and general carnage the SysAdmin in me was thinking “dedicated server….”

After grabbing a few more achivements (Witch and Hunter headshots ftw) I set up a dedicated server for Left4Dead and let it run on its merry way. Whilst investigating the cvar’s and other server options I discovered the logging and thought to myself; “Well Valve are keeping track of the Acheivements but who keeps track of each and every kill?”

2 hours later and the groundwork for L4DStats was in place and now the very first version that is stable enough to be viewed is available: http://l4dstats.networksaremadeofstring.co.uk/

Once I’ve fixed a few more bugs and cleaned up some of the hackier code it’ll be released GPL for everyone to go and make what they will with it.