Half-Life 2: 20th Anniversary Documentary on HackerTube: recommended by 3 Hacker News commenters across 3 separate months, 2024–2025.
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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.
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”
4 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.
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
in “Ask HN: What are some of your favorite documentaries?” · View on HN
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
in “A summer intern once saved Valve from a near-fatal lawsuit” · View on HN
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)
in “Half-Life 2 and Dishonored art lead Viktor Antonov has died” · View on HN
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
in “Why Half-Life 3 speculation is reaching a fever pitch again” · View on HN