Through The Looking Glass

List of Figures

1. Terminal DOOM

2. Super Turbo Turkey Puncher - Three!

1.1. Half Life 2: Big Brother on active surface

1.2. Classic DOOM E1M1: reactive surface as one-time switch

1.3. Classic DOOM E1M1: every door an interactive surface

1.4. DOOM3 Ceiling Crane (one degree of freedom)

1.5. DOOM3 H-Crane (two degrees of freedom)

1.6. Terminal DOOM: on the other side

1.7. Quake3 Q3DM7 see-through teleport portal

1.8. Terminal DOOM: You Are Here.

2.1. Metroid Prime HUD Visor

2.2. DOOM3 Monorail controls

2.3. Halo: a different kind of avatar

2.4. DOOM3 Alpha Labs Security Checkpoint: out-of-body experience

2.5. Trepasser: two components of the UI

2.6. Cognitoy's Mindrover: visual programming

2.7. Munch's Snoozer Gun Platform

2.8. Munch's Snoozer Remote Control

2.9. DOOM3 Alpha Labs: controlled within view

2.10. DOOM3 Translucent Display

2.11. Translucent UI in Halo: iconic representation

2.12. F.E.A.R.: not quite split-screen

2.13. Death By Proxy: Munch's Snoozer

2.14. Opposing Force's Pit Worm re-implemented the Half-Life Blast Pit

2.15. Prey's see-through teleport portals

2.16. DOOM3: Pianola Mod - not quite QWERTY

2.17. Half-Life 2: DOOM3: Grafitti but no Spray Can

2.18. DOOM3 Uncanny: every NPC is an Interface

2.19. HAL-9000 Computer (from 2001)

2.20. Hostile Orbit Mod: HTML billboards?

2.21. Cinematic Delivery

2.22. Munch: cinematic camera

2.23. DOOM3: in-game video forcefed during cut-scene

2.24. DOOM3: delivery without player lockdown

2.25. Metroid Prime: scans - collect them all!

3.1. Half-Life 2: a world waiting to happen?

3.2. Trepasser: on the one hand

3.3. Half-Life 2 Physics: waiting to happen

3.4. Half-Life 2: look, no hands!

3.5. Dark Forces: an in-game hologram

3.6. Half-Life Opposing Force: a highly reactive climax