9.4M views · Nov 15, 2024 · 2:01:18 · 3 HN recommenders · 4 mentions · discussed 2024–2025
Valve's two-hour documentary for Half-Life 2's 20th anniversary, with team members discussing development, nearly running out of money, being hacked, the publisher lawsuit and the birth of Steam.
Why Hacker News points people here: HN recommends it as an excellent inside look at Valve's history, its technology and the games industry of the time.
“the excellent YouTube documentary Valve released for Half-Life 2's 20th Anniversary”HN comment, 2024
“the excellent YouTube documentary Valve released for Half-Life 2's 20th Anniversary”
Valve's anniversary documentary, source of the article's story.
Mentioned in the article, but the source is the excellent YouTube documentary Valve released for Half-Life 2's 20th Anniversary [0] [0] this video
“I really enjoyed the Half Life 2: 20th Anniversary documentary.”
Perspective on the games industry and Valve's technology at the time.
I really enjoyed the Half Life 2: 20th Anniversary documentary. It gave a pretty neat perspective of what the games' industry was like at the time, and also made me really appreciate the technology that Valve was building. A lot of really innovative stuff came out of the creation of that game. this video
“For those who haven't seen it yet, he was interviewed in the HL2 20th Anniversary Documentary”
Includes interview with Viktor Antonov.
RIP. For those who haven't seen it yet, he was interviewed in the HL2 20th Anniversary Documentary: this video (intro and chapter 1 at 13:40)
“You can watch the 20th anniversary doc, they speak about it”
Documentary discusses dropping episodic content approach.
They drop the episodic content idea, it will be a full game You can watch the 20th anniversary doc, they speak about it : this video
