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07/18/2006

First Look: Portal

Kotaku provides us with a first look at Valve's upcoming Portal game. Gameplay demonstration after the jump.
"It looks like they took the portal concept from Prey and slapped it on a gun--you can shoot them into walls and floors to solve all kinds of crazy puzzles, teleporting objects around and stuff. Looks like a total mindbender." GameSpy is reporting that Portal is being designed as a single player game in the Half-Life universe and will ship will Half-Life 2: Episode 2.
[via Kotaku - FiringSquad]

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Posted at 07/18/2006 6:16pm by kayne001
wow nice idea, just like the grav gun
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Posted at 07/18/2006 6:25pm by turboslut
on a first glance it looked stupid, by the end of the video.. I WANT THIS GAME!
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Posted at 07/18/2006 6:29pm by dave
wow,cool....
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Posted at 07/18/2006 6:56pm by Mike
looks amazing, can't wait for it to come out!
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Posted at 07/18/2006 6:59pm by Kevin
That's just awesome, although Prey was first with the portal idea
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Posted at 07/18/2006 7:03pm by =HEATH=
It is obvious that they took the portal idea from Prey, but they redeem themselves by using it in a way cooler way. Those puzzles look like they would be frustratingly fun! It's the Grav gun's and Prey's love child!
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Posted at 07/18/2006 7:03pm by T3ChNo
The funniest thing about this game is that it seems to be influenced by some award winning college students' project called Narbacular Drop. You can download a demo of the project at http://www.digipen.edu/GameGallery/downloads/NarbacularDrop.exe and it gives you a pretty good idea of how the portal concept works. I wonder if the two are somehow related.
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Posted at 07/18/2006 7:16pm by Crucible
Fn awesome, intriguing concept cant wait for Half Life 2: Episode 2.
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Posted at 07/18/2006 7:51pm by Keith L. Dick
Hmmm... Pretty interesting... I can see the *Puzzles* in future games getting very very complicated but the Game play would be interesting....
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Posted at 07/18/2006 8:11pm by Mitch
Why is valve so awesome?
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Posted at 07/18/2006 9:27pm by James
HOLY S***. Thats pretty damn cool!
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Posted at 07/18/2006 9:33pm by Pao
Better than Prey? I don't want another hitch hiker on the road to the portal.
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Posted at 07/18/2006 9:33pm by edward
im not too into the graphics the portals have.. just seems kind of simple. but looks like an awesome game. i hope theres some FPS action and not just puzzles to solve
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Posted at 07/18/2006 10:12pm by 2dayBlog - Technology Journal, New Gadget everyday! » Blog Archive » Valve’s upcoming Portal game
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Posted at 07/18/2006 10:26pm by Tom
Holy s***, vALVE does it again. :) I cant wait to play it.
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Posted at 07/18/2006 11:22pm by Kaku
trippy
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Posted at 07/18/2006 11:56pm by Alfredo
God...that´s cool =) i like game graphics...and the idea is cool too
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Posted at 07/19/2006 01:13am by Fana7ic
Well the idea is stolen from prey, but its an other gameplay, and it looks like a lot of fun. I wanna have it, now :)
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Posted at 07/19/2006 01:22am by Signify
Everyone loves tech demos. Is it just me or did the Source engine get a facelift? BTW, go buy Prey for a precursor to this, seeing as that's where Valve got the technology.
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Posted at 07/19/2006 02:14am by 我不喜欢-Blog » First Look: Portal
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Posted at 07/21/2006 11:46am by OkinKun
This was neither stolen from, or used ideas from Prey... as Prey was not the first to do it. The public concept for Narbacular Drop was around before Prey was announced... If anything Prey took that idea, and aplied it to stationary portals in itself. Portal is being made by the same guys that made Narbacular Drop! So its their idea, and not Prey's. Portal gives players the ability to control where the portals are, which is far better!
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Posted at 07/22/2006 7:17pm by JoeSnow
it's ok, all of this is stolen from Id's Doom anyway,*sarcasm* ;-p who cares, it looks fun.
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Posted at 07/24/2006 08:57am by besttivoblogs.com »
[...] First Look: Portal Kotaku provides us with a first look at Valve’s upcoming Portal game. Gameplay demonstration after the jump. “It looks like they took the portal concept from Prey and slapped it on a gun–you can shoot them into walls and floors to solve all kinds of crazy puzzles, teleporting objects around and stuff. Looks like a total […] Posted by besttivo | [...]
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Posted at 10/06/2006 9:10pm by Web Portal Design
Dave Interesting topic... I'm working in this industry myself and I don't agree about this in 100%, but I added your page to my bookmarks and hope to see more interesting articles in the future
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Posted at 12/06/2006 4:07pm by What Is The Precursor Of The Internet
Markus It was quite useful reading, found some interesting details about this topic. Thanks.
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