где находятся Гордон и Аликс в течении той недели, на которую их задержал "медленный" телепорт?

Hello Marc,







this video shows a map presumably developed by you and then later found in the stolen HL2 game build. The 'marc' folder also had a HAZFLICK.VMF map that changed the interior to rusty and back again, and HAZRUIN.VMF, which was just rusty and without any Kleiner sightings. I have some questions:



1. Does this map show the protagonist hallucinating?



"What's going on in there, look at these readings! It seems to be..." - Kleiner
"As a matter of fact, you are not [here]" - Gman
Unknown voice saying something about the emergence therapy at 1:06 in the video (I've checked the files and this muffled scream was in the VMF source too). And, of course, that corridor scene which reminds me of some similiar corridor scenes from the Nightmare House 2 mod.



2. What was the concept behind this map? It greatly differs from all other maps from that stolen archive of VMFs (this unique Gman monologue and a strange map plot that doesn't seem connected to any of known old plots of Half-Life 2).

Hi Nick,



The short answer is that I just made this for fun, as an experiment, but always in the hope that if I could figure out how to do something cool then a real level designer could it right. This was a crazy idea that never fit into a game anywhere. I was to build a sequence where you see behind the scenes of reality—so, you’re seeing a simulation and something breaks you out of it, and you see this weird lab setting (which may also be a simulation), until the G-Man notices you and sends you back into your dream. The idea was that this would be part of the HL2 training course, as I recall, but we ended up not doing a training course for HL2…so that was one reason it never went any further than this. We were doing G-Man sessions at the time so I had Mike Shapiro record some lines expressly for this. I ended up using some bits and pieces of this when I put together the short “Psycho” demo that was part of the E3 movies we eventually showed the public…I took some of the underlying pieces of this map and reworked them into that demo. Basically I was just trying to make stuff that was weird and surreal. I enjoyed playing with Hammer.



The other ruined pieces were a related experiment that branched off the first one. In these, I had someone make an oscillating timer entity, then built two versions of the same environment—one new, one ruined. Then I used a pair of teleports hooked to the oscillator, so that you would flip between the environments, slowly at first, then fast enough to make them flicker and blur (I think that’s the reason for FLICK in HAZFLICK), until you were finally deposited in the run-down version. Again, the idea was that you were seeing behind the scenes…so you were actually in a ruined environment but you’re being deluded into seeing it as if it’s whole. There was never any more to it than that, and it obviously never turned into anything that affected the story. But I think that oscillator might still be around as a useful entity for other things.



I also did a much longer chunk of early gameplay where you’re moving through steam tunnels, listening to someone whistling up ahead, and when you get to him, manhacks attack and the covers blow off the pipes and you follow some tunnels through to a place where stalkers fire at you. I worked on that one for a long time, but I’m not sure if that one leaked, and if it did, I’m quite sure it was broken. I got tired up rebuilding and updating these maps every time the code changed, so eventually I tired of them and let them rot. Also, since I was not a really accomplished level designer, they kind of suck. But they were fun to make.