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In-Game Developer Commentary

Waxy.org has posted some recordings of the in-game Developer Commentary available in Half Life 2: Episode One.

What a cool idea.  I wonder what other uses there could be of this concept?

Maybe source code comments with dynamically updated links to relevant blog posts, forum posts and screencasts as additional annotation...a kind of F1 on steroids.

Posted: Sep 09 2006, 10:49 PM by admin | with 1 comment(s)

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Richard Edwards said:

I like it!  How about an attribute or something in the code, sort of like an optional breakpoint, so that when that path is hit during execution the user can (if they have so chosen) be handed a URL that will point them to anything of interest about that particular path.  It might not be the dev who wants to post content; it might be product support or a forum or a patch download or whatever.  If the URL is 404, then the app just keeps chugging along like nothing happened.

# September 10, 2006 12:46 AM