Hacking in progress: glove display and connected nodes

About this game

Developer: Valve · Publisher: Valve · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Realistic 3D · Screen type: HUD & Gameplay UI

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What to study

Mid-solve, the puzzle and the player's status share one frame because both live on the body. The left gravity glove reaches into the sphere, and the back of that glove is the HUD: a dotted row of red hearts and a small cyan LCD (an icon and a 0) are built into the glove's machinery, readable only when the player turns their own hand over. Around the hand, the sphere's nodes are now wired together with beams of light, each glyph (heart, coil, grid) a connection made by touching it, while the multi-tool stays plugged into the door's port at right, glowing at the tip. There is no screen-space HUD anywhere in this game to screenshot instead: health, counts and puzzle state are all properties of objects the player is holding, and this frame is the clearest demonstration in either video. Frame at about 0:27 in the Gameplay 2 video (Steam), manually extracted at 26.5s from the same downloaded video; the scene-change pass missed the whole hacking sequence.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

diegetic-controls node-icons status-row

Components

Parts on screen.

Grid Pips

Screen inventory

• gravity-glove hand reaching in from the lower left, fingers open toward the nodes
• back-of-glove display: red heart pips in a dotted row and a small cyan LCD with an icon and a 0 count
• glyph nodes joined by beams of light: red heart node, yellow node, blue coil node, green grid node
• red disc plane across the lower right of the sphere
• faint web of thin lines and unlit nodes spread across the wall behind the sphere
• multi-tool plugged into the door port at right, its tip glowing white
• pistol held in the other hand at the top right corner

Top 3 colors

#283a29 33%#3c4837 19%#1b2a1d 17%

Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.

Source and credit

© Valve, Half-Life: Alyx screenshot: Half-Life: Alyx Gameplay 1 and Gameplay 2 videos (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Valve.

Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-20. verified 2026-10-21: frame manually extracted at 26.5s from the pipeline-downloaded Gameplay 2 video (Steam) and inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080 native); genuine in-game frame confirmed (reaching glove with legible heart pips and cyan LCD, connected glyph nodes with beams, red disc, docked multi-tool all visible); no trailer text or watermark overlays the frame

no published policy found (checked 2026-10-21); fair-use study use, takedown honored within 48h

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