Talk:Hyper Era

Re-word summary to include the perspective of this era being "post-pitch"

talk about rtb vignettes?

"The story of Half-Life 2 began as a stack of index cards bearing nothing but the names of potential places for gameplay. Initial versions of the game were literally globe-spanning, taking Gordon Freeman on an epic journey from an icebound ship to an undersea base; from Washington, D.C. to the Middle East; from a vast "Scrapland" littered with the remains of the world's armies, to an alien fortress city. But as the story came into focus, the emphasis shifted toward a tighter, circular path, and the major environments were narrowed down to a mere dozen or so. The immediate design goals were twofold: to create a consistent and strikingly original visual universe, and to define a distinct Half-Life 2 look and style."

find article that mentioned something about how what engine tf2 was running on was decided to be in-house (at a time just after the hl2 pitch)

find out the date when visual studio stopped using and updating .dsp files

find article or text talking about the physgun's origins

make a hoard article and reference it in both this and the pre-pitch episode

include a "changes from last era" section, talk about how the 3 races concept merged and how c17 was merged

Siggraph 23-28/7/2000, fire tech, physics destruction, materials, terrain displacements, facial animation, gas mask citizens, fisticuffs, fish like scanner movement, red haired alyx, odell, cremator, crab synth