So far the results i have seen are:
Chell
Companion Cube
And Turret.
The results you can get are:
ATLAS
Cave Johnson
Chell
GLaDOS
P-body
Ratman
Turret
Wheatley
And Weighted Companion Cube.
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Monday, April 4, 2011
Portal 2
Portal 2 is coming out on April 19th. This is the original trailer that they made.
This is the trailer that they made when they finally accepted pre-orders.
There is now a co-op option to the game.
Meet Wheatley.
Still Alive
The song Still Alive was written by Jonathan Coulton. It is unusual for a video game to end in a song, this maybe why it became such a hit among the gaming community. The song itself was also remixed for the game to play on the radio in the chamber when you first wake up. Still Alive was featured in rock band and also audiosurf. The song was performed by Ellen McLain. Ellen was the voice of GLaDOS throughout the game. She is a trained opera singer and was not sure if she would have the right style of singing for the song, but after she heard it she loved it. People have played this song in any game or anything that has a way to play sounds in games. There have been elementary schools that have sung this song at their shows. If you can imagine it I am sure it has been done.
Cake Recipie
The cake recipe is a very interesting one. It starts out just how any recipe would start. It is the garnishes that make you laugh and the fact that there is a cake core from GLaDOS that tell you the whole recipe.
The screen behind the Cake Core also has the recipe embedded into it.
Turrets
The Apture Science Sentry Gun is quite cute. Apart from the fact that it wants you dead they always sound rather sweet. They are strangely polite at all times. They idle, sleep, scan, and shoot. They are the only other voice in the game that you hear aside from GLaDOS.
They also dance sometimes.
GLaDOS
GLaDOS stands for Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System. She is a sentient computer. It was on the day that she was first activated (which happened to coinside with the first Aperture Science bring your daughter to work day) that GLaDOS became self aware and locked down the facility. The survivors trapped inside the Aperture Science facility made GLaDOS angry and she began to flood the enrichment center with a deadly neurotoxin. The survivors fitted GLaDOS with a Morality core which quelled her rage. Glados continued to test the survivors until all that was left was Chell.
GLaDOS begins to show instability as you travel throughout the game. She slowly becomes more and more emotional. When Chell outsmarts GLaDOS by jumping off the platform before she gets burned alive that’s when GLaDOS’s true nature begins to be truly revealed.
At the end of the game though it may seem that GLaDOS is destroyed it is really only a part of her that is destroyed. It is there that the song Still Alive picks up.
Chell
Chell is your silent protagonist. She wakes up in the “relaxation vault” with new attachments to her legs. These things are called Advanced Knee Replacements. They help you catch yourself after you fall from a high height. It is not known where Chell came from or what she will do later in the games or what might be reviled. We only know to take what GLaDOS says about her with a grain of salt since GLaDOS does not seem to want Chell to live.
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| Chell | |
|---|---|
| Biographical information | |
| Homeworld | |
| Function(s) / Belongings | |
| Rank / Occupation | |
| Weapons | |
| Jewel(s) | Probably wore earrings |
| Physical description | |
| Species | Human |
| Gender | Female |
| Hair color | Black turning grey |
| Eye color | |
| Cybernetics | |
| Chronological and political information | |
| Era(s) | |
| Affiliation | |
| Game information | |
| Voiced by | Mary Kae Irvin (female Citizen sounds are reused when she is hurt) |
| Modeled over | |
| Designer(s) |
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| Entity / spawn codes | N/A |
Later Games
About a year after portal was released a game called Spectrobes: Beyond The Portals was released. Though I have never played this game the reviews seem to suggest that is game is like a sci-fi version of Pokémon with portals. Judging the cover art you can almost feel were they got some of their inspiration from. There seems to be a blue and red portal in this game too.
Also created in 2008 was Portal: The Flash Version. This enticed Valve to release on Xbox Live the Portal: Still Alive version of the game. This game includes 14 new challenges and achievements in the game. The game was received positively in the Live community. The flash version is in a 2D setting and can sometimes feel strange to those who are so used to playing the original game. Portal: The Flash Version can be found here.
Nabacular Drop
Nabacular Drop is not the best game in existence but it was a very good foundation for the game portal. It is about Princess “No Knees” (she cannot jump) and how she was kidnapped by a demon and trapped in a mountain. The creature Wally lives in this mountain. He is upset that the demon has moved into his mountain and wants to help the princess escape. Wally is what creates the portals in the game. There are only five levels and they glitch out often. It was this game though that Valve saw and hired the team of students who made the game on the spot.
You can download the game here.
The Cake Is A Lie
The cake is constantly talked about as you go through the game. GLaDOS refers to it throughout the levels and it is even mentioned on the walls of some of the levels. If you find mention of the cake on a wall, it is always the same “the cake is a lie”.
GLaDOS is not the only one to mention the cake. There is a cake sphere that falls out of her that repeats the recipe over and over. You may also find the recipe hidden in the computer screen script. The only time you ever see the cake is at the end of the credits. GLaDOS also sings about the cake in end song Still Alive.
This is not the first game that you are ever lied to about cake. In Super Mario 64 Princess Peach invites Mario over for some cake. After Mario saves Peach at the very end of the credits you finally see the cake.
Apparently when the game developers were coming up with Portal they sat down to come up with an idea for the point of finishing the game. They all sat there silent for about 15 minutes till one person said "Everybody likes cake".
"The experiment is nearing its conclusion. The Enrichment Center is required to remind you that you will be baked, and then there will be cake."
Valve Merchandise
Several months after Portal came out they finally started to come out with some merchandise. There was a coffee mug, a t-shirt, some stickers, and a parking decal for your car.
It was not till almost a year after the game came out that there were finally plush Weighted Companion Cubes, they even came out with a dice version for the car.
Still for some reason Valve has not exploded with merchandise for Portal. There are only seven different shirts, a mug, a plushie, and a bunch of decals, and a few posters.
I commend Valve for not starting a flood of merchandise. They never anticipated the popularity of Portal but they are expecting it with Portal 2. They already have some t-shirts out and some of the Portal merchandise is on sale in preparation for the new games arrival.
The Black Box
Half life 2 was originally released in 2004. The Orange Box was released in 2007. The Orange Box has five games in it. There is Half Life 2, Episode One and Episode Two, Portal and Team Fortress 2. When the later three were being planned to be released the development team came up with the idea of The Black Box. The Black Box would contain Half Life 2’s Episode Two, Portal, and Team Fortress 2. The Black Box was originally priced $10 cheaper than The Orange Box would be priced. These “box” concepts were developed to bring multiple games to different platforms at a faster pace. Half Life 2 was released in 2004 through Steam which is a way that Valve distributes games to Windows and Macs. Half Life 2 was not compatible on any consoles at this time. Thus The Orange Box was deemed a better choice. So those that had already bought Half Life 2 via Steam were offered gift vouchers so that they could gift their second copies to friends. This still caused some grumblings among Steam users.
Portal was put into this mix so that people would have to buy the game. Originally most of the players bought The Orange Box for the Half Life games and for Team Fortress 2. It was not expected that Portal would eventually get the fan base that it did.
Portal was put into this mix so that people would have to buy the game. Originally most of the players bought The Orange Box for the Half Life games and for Team Fortress 2. It was not expected that Portal would eventually get the fan base that it did.
Portal Stats
| Portal | |
|---|---|
 Portal's box art displays part of one of the signs commonly used in the game's environment. | |
| Developer(s) | Valve Corporation |
| Publisher(s) | Valve Corporation Microsoft Game Studios(XBLA) |
| Distributor(s) | Electronic Arts (retail) Steam (online) |
| Composer(s) | Kelly Bailey Mike Morasky Jonathan Coulton |
| Series | Half-Life |
| Engine | Source |
| Version | Build 4295 |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows,[1] Mac OS X,[1] PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 |
| Release date(s) | |
| Genre(s) | Sci-fi puzzle-platform game |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
| Rating(s) | |
| Media/distribution | DVD, digital download |
| System requirements | |
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