HL2 PHP

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Working "move=" commands // "gman" "gordon" "alyx" "kill" "w" "a" "s" "d" "chris_d" "truth" "Pirate" "impulse101" "cow" "joshua" "ninja" "chicken" "rc" "fish"

 

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A Summary by f|uke

Please dont post questions in this thread.
Nothing but intelligent, informed posts please

I'm going to condense everything I know about hl2.php into this post.

For those of you who want to catch up, heres a

Brief summary of the facts:

Manook posted this thread >hl2.php<, bringing >this game< to our attention.
People started entering in ?moves manually, including the most obvious ?move=s.
It did not work at first, but then, all of the sudden ?move=s had an answer.
People try new things, they dont work. They suggest them in the thread, and suddenly, they do. Not all suggestions started working, but quite a few did.

Here is a list of the ?moves

?move=s * "This is not a test"
?move=gman * Not the first time I've seen this comparison.
?move=alyx * What a hottie.
?move=gordon * So true
?move=joshua * A reference to the movie War Games
?move=cow
?move=ninja
?move=kill
?move=impulse101
?move=fish * Irc humor
?move=chris_d
?move=rc * Its out there,. somewhere..
?move=pirate
?move=chicken
?move=truth * We love you too!

There was also a ?move=gold, but it was removed.

It said: "You wish? *I* wish!"

So what was that all about?

Heres my take
(moderate speculation)
Somebody at Valve was killing time making hl2.php to entertain half-life2.com visitors. Manook discovered it purely by chance, posted here, and someone at Valve saw the thread on it. It was, however, not ready. And so as it was discussed, and as people tried different things, the guy(s) at Valve let us know that it was not (as some assumed) a test. But as people kept riffing on it, Valve added some more things,. and the more we found/got excited about, the more playful our friend(s) got.

The whole thing was, dare I say, a total fluke.

And a curious and entertaining encounter (aparently) for both sides.

But where do we go from here?

"The path is clear when the time is right"

Could this mean once you can beat the original path with one of the first 3 options that something important has happened at that time?? Once the original path is "clear"?

What Sashswash said makes perfect sense. At some point, hl2.php will have an option that does not result in death (I'm assuming one that is linked, not one entered in manually).

However, it seems to me that the way out will actually be a fourth option.

I think you'll find the path is... clear... when the time is right.

You see a street in front of you. To your left is a door. The way behind is blocked by rubble. To your right, a headcrab glares menacingly.

The blocked path is backwards.
So ?move=s should change. Where it will go from there, we dont know.

Also a worthy note was made by feath,.

hl2.php was hinted at on September 1st on the steam
http://www.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?postid=1074699#post1074699

I'm also betting the php game goes live to celebrate the upcoming gold announcement. But thats just a hunch.

Edited for content - Icarus

 

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