It's amazing how this interactive book blended together the in-game Development Commentary, the Lab Rat comic, and the two games on which it is based.
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It does show the downside of using what at the time was an innovative new way to tell the story, but now leaves us with an incomplete archive of it. Overall, it takes some work to get through the full experience of this now, but it is worth it in my opinion.
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I did have to restart the app once or twice after clicking a video that opened a pop up with a loader that never completed and could not be dismissed. Some online components are broken, like a few of the videos (which I was able to find on YouTube), the iTunes previews of songs (instead you can listen to the full songs on your streaming service of choice), and the embedded polls. The iPad app is definitely the intended way to experience it, but nowadays, it’s nearly impossible (if not impossible) to get ahold of it, since you’d need an iPad with iOS 10 in order to run the 32-bit app and even then some online components may no longer work.įor the best experience, I’d recommend going with the Steam version of this book, since it retains the interactive and video components and is available. There is also a text-and-image-only version available on Kindle, but it does leave out some parts of the interactive version (including all the videos), plus the pictures are black and white. This was originally released as an interactive iPad app and ported to Steam, which kept the interactive elements. All of them are very interesting looks inside how Valve works and the issues they had to overcome while making these games. I recommend reading his articles “The Final Hours of Half-Life” and “The Final Hours of Half-Life 2” first to get the most enjoyment out of this (both are freely available online).