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Meanwhile, Half-Life/GoldSrc/Source scripting means placing "entities" in the world space and connecting them. Like a very messy form of visual/block-based programming. On many maps with a lot of scripts there are separate, inaccessible rooms where the mapper stashed all the entities, because placing them where their triggers / effects happen would make editing the level geometry quite difficult.

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