Comments on: First Person To Say ‘Portal Rip-Off’ Will Be Shot

By: Ci2e

Ci2e — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:27:48 +0000

Okay just how the hell do you get past level 5c?

There’s no way to move the black holes and well that’s my main problem. I can’t seem to find a way to collect the last orb. I think maybe you have to give the ball just enough momentum to get down the path but not too much where it drops through the black hole…

By: BOBSAGET

BOBSAGET — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:58:34 +0000

Its LIKE portal but not a rip off

By: LionsPhil

LionsPhil — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:09:49 +0000

@Andrew: Looks like an interesting read, cheers. Their “SiegePos” is exactly the kind of thing you need, but (as they say), they had some niceties in only having to map/connect things on a 2D plane.

By: MindBrain

MindBrain — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 05:29:55 +0000

Shouldn’t the time reverse uncollect the tokens too ?

By: Andrew Doull

Andrew Doull — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 03:51:18 +0000

LionsPhil: As far as I am aware, the Dungeon Siege game engine does something like this... certainly it supports designing its content in a non-Euclidean fashion (White paper).

By: Sucram

Sucram — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 02:34:15 +0000

From 3D Realms To Continue “Portal Race”:
What about escalation!

You bring a portal in space, he brings a portal in time and space.

and I claim my 5 bucks.

By: Noc

Noc — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 01:23:17 +0000

I was actually a little disappointed in the time-rewinding. You didn’t really use it cleverly to SOLVE puzzles, you just grabbed orbs one at a time. I was hoping for something more like Chronotron: were the ball would go through a portal and come out at a different TIME, which would open up a path that let the ball get to the entrance portal in the first place.

Still, it’s a solid puzzle game with more than it’s share of polish. I approve.

By: Tricky

Tricky — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 23:33:51 +0000

I actually liked the depth of Epsilon’s puzzles much more than when I played Portal the second time through. Did anybody else?

Also, that quote about mathematics and reality was AWESOME.

By: Vivian

Vivian — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:58:53 +0000

nice bit of bargain basement bristol goon bass at the end

By: The Shed

The Shed — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:34:27 +0000

The ghost room thing is genius, if insanely confusing at first. Nice little game.

EDIT: Theres some aggro bugs in there as well. I found portals often giving up on their duty to teleport things. Stuff like that. Still a good game.

By: LionsPhil

LionsPhil — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:19:38 +0000

@FatZombie: On occasion. Unfortunately, I’m now neck-deep in an (unrelated) PhD, and the other devs are also busy with life.

One of the big problems is that a proper portal engine means that there is no unambiguous global co-ordinate system, because you can have overlapping space. This then means that you find yourself having to write everything from scratch. Maybe by the time DNF is released, we’ll have caught up with the Quake engine. ;) I would still like to get a proper tech demo/playground out there, because the game we made for the assignment doesn’t show off the dynamic nature of it all.

By: Rogue

Rogue — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:07:41 +0000

“Ahem. Noobfags: ITYM “Prey rip-off”.”
I got there eventually. :(