LoveGLaDOS: a Portal map by Grax
LoveGLaDOS: a Portal map by Grax
Hello Descent pals.
I made a new Portal map and I figured there'd be some fans of the game here. Designing a Portal level is the closest feeling I've gotten to designing a Descent level and, um... it's a damn good feeling.
Download
The map, titled \"How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love GLaDOS\" (or \"LoveGLaDOS\" for short) is available at these locations:
http://forums.thinkingwithportals.com/l ... -t723.html
http://students.guildhall.smu.edu/c7/26383257/
http://myaperturelabs.com/file.php?id=38
http://www.fpsbanana.com/maps/44173
Screenshots
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Hope you enjoy it, and I hope this is the right descentBB forum subsection for this type of topic. All feedback on the map is appreciated.
I made a new Portal map and I figured there'd be some fans of the game here. Designing a Portal level is the closest feeling I've gotten to designing a Descent level and, um... it's a damn good feeling.
Download
The map, titled \"How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love GLaDOS\" (or \"LoveGLaDOS\" for short) is available at these locations:
http://forums.thinkingwithportals.com/l ... -t723.html
http://students.guildhall.smu.edu/c7/26383257/
http://myaperturelabs.com/file.php?id=38
http://www.fpsbanana.com/maps/44173
Screenshots
Additional notes
Hope you enjoy it, and I hope this is the right descentBB forum subsection for this type of topic. All feedback on the map is appreciated.
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Check this out:woodchip wrote:Ummm...what is Portal?
http://orange.half-life2.com/portal.html
While you are there check out Team Fortress 2
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Has it been 3 years since you last left your hole?woodchip wrote:Ummm...what is Portal?
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Whereas the real Descent was released 14 years ago.Foil wrote:?!?! Wait a sec! Descent3 was released only 9 years ago... 8)Lothar wrote:Quite possibly the best video game of the last 10 years.woodchip wrote:Ummm...what is Portal?
DooM II > Descent 1 > Portal > Descent 3 >> Descent2
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Yes it has. My hole is a nice comfy place so why leave.CDN_Merlin wrote:Has it been 3 years since you last left your hole?woodchip wrote:Ummm...what is Portal?
Looked at trailer and looks a bit cerebral. So all you get is a acme portal gun and off you go?
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Lets lay this down saying that everyone it wrong, andFoil wrote:Them's fightin' words, bro...Lothar wrote:DooM II > Descent 1
[Although I'll agree that Descent > Portal and Descent3 >> DescentII]
Descent1\\2\\3 > ∞
Really, its very variable from person to person... Pick what ya like and stick with it.
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You know, that's not a bad description. The great thing about Portal is that it is a great example of something we don't see enough of in game design - complexity through simplicity.woodchip wrote:Looked at trailer and looks a bit cerebral. So all you get is a acme portal gun and off you go?
After all, the "rules" of Portal are very simple. You can fire a blue portal. You can fire an orange portal. You can travel through the portals and bring objects through the portals.
But from this basic premise comes something so elegantly designed. And really, even though the game is pretty short, you have to get to that last level. People tell me "I got to level 16 and I'm wondering, is that all there is to it?" No, no. That last level is something else. Probably one of the most memorable last levels in video games.
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Haven't had a chance to convince the wife to look at the new level (I don't actually play, I just watch her play.)
On a slightly related note, the sheet music to the credits song can be found here.
On a slightly related note, the sheet music to the credits song can be found here.
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On our project at work, there's an auto-save toggle in the lower-right corner of the UnrealEd window (the little disk with a green checkbox icon). I don't know if we added that or not, but either way, you can enable and disable autosave in the BaseEditor.ini (DefaultEditor.ini?) file.Duper wrote:Grax, have you played with the new editor for UT3?
You can do some pretty cool stuff.. if you can tolerate the auto-save.
Portal Map Contest
I've submitted LoveGLaDOS to a Portal mapping contest -- feel free to vote if you think it's worthy:
Portal Map Contest Vote Thread: http://forums.thinkingwithportals.com/j ... -t819.html
Portal Map Contest Vote Thread: http://forums.thinkingwithportals.com/j ... -t819.html