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Inner architect: We're going from a room to a corridor, so the door should open towards the player. That's how doors work.
Inner level designer: Yeah, but then they could get wedged against the wall
Inner architect:
Inner architect: Fuck it. It opens away from them.
my favorite videogame door trope is "every door opens both ways, no matter the location or style"
Reminds me of The Door Article. I don't know if it was a Tweet thread, or a Tumblr, but it was about all of the thing that went into a AAA door
You might be thinking of Liz England’s “The Door Problem”?https://lizengland.com/blog/2014/04/the-door-problem/
Though I was also reminded of this tweet from Megan Fox about how many things in Hot Tin Roof were technically doors: https://twitter.com/glassbottommeg/status/1073819842388516864?s=20
Half Life Alyx doors are a technical marvel all on their own but what's even weirder is that they appear to be diagetically double hinged doors because some minor puzzles are solved by closing the door and then opening it in the opposite direction.
I am SO glad I'm working on a sci fi game where it makes sense that every single door automatically slides open when a person is near it. So much complexity that instantly vanishes!
hahaha, yep
Most of our doors are sliding sci-fi doors... but there are a few scripted sections with hinged doors, and they are a problem
"I, too, have been playing Q2 The Reckoning."
i wonder if any games actually treat swinging doors as something the player is moving, and only open them all the way if the player actually takes a step back. all the examples i can think of treat the door as an autonomous object that the player simply activates
There was a Source engine multiplayer shooter a few years back called Double Action Boogaloo, which I seem to recall had very physics-heavy doors that players had to physically push through. I don't know how well they handled subtler movements, though.
