Hackers' Pub

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Hacker News 50 @hn50@social.lansky.name

11/23/2025, 8:55:06 PM

Public

A time-travelling door bug in Half Life 2

Link: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@TomF/115589875974658415
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46009962

A Combine soldier threatening with a baton, in front of a door. Which one is a greater menace in gamedev?

Tom Forsyth (@TomF@mastodon.gamedev.place)

Attached: 1 image Recent discussion about the perils of doors in gamedev reminded me of a bug caused by a door in a game you may have heard of called "Half Life 2". Are you sitting comfortably? Then I shall begin.

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