[Portal 2] Map Making Initiative

[ikkonoishi]

That was my first thought too...

Use a sphere. More predictable.
Currently I'm thinking you put a dropper over a faith plate which launches the sphere across the room. The sphere hits the button, and drops into a fizzler. Dropper makes new sphere, and it starts again. Still verifying game cache or I would test it myself.

EDIT: Fizzler isn't even needed. Just have the button trigger the dropper. It will spawn a new one when it gets pressed. You can use a fizzler as a NOT gate.

EDIT2: I made a proof of concept.
Note: Spoiler contains puzzle solution.

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If you stand on the side of a laser cube you can tip it over to point up or down.
So tip it up through the glass then drop down on the glass and hit the laser catcher.
For some reason the only working light source is the large observation window. I don't know what is going on there.

[JNJ]

PSA: Someone made a custom testing element that might look and sound awfully familiar...



Yep, it's time to Sendificate.

EDIT: Also available via Steam Workshop.

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Did not know test subjects were exiles.

[Inconspicularity]

PSA: Someone made a custom testing element that might look and sound awfully familiar...

Yep, it's time to Sendificate.

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Did not know test subjects were exiles.

Oh bollocks this gave me an idea that I won't be able to pull off for years.

edit: ARGH ASHDENEJ WHAT DID YOU CUT OUT. I FORGOT WHAT IT IS AND I ALWAYS USE POSTS LIKE REMINDERS

[NachoGrande96]

Does it exist in any Workshop maps yet, or is it just an object for Hammer?

[JNJ]

Oh, most definitely something in hammer. The link isn't even to the workshop. But still, thing of beauty, etc.

[ashdenej]

edit: ARGH ASHDENEJ WHAT DID YOU CUT OUT. I FORGOT WHAT IT IS AND I ALWAYS USE POSTS LIKE REMINDERS

If I edit a post that quotes another one which contains an image, then I'm probably chopping the image out.

This is true in this case! Spoilering repeat images is a quiet bugbear of mine.

Anyway, you can just look in the post history for what I've changed, because it's your post!

[Inconspicularity]

If I edit a post that quotes another one which contains an image, then I'm probably chopping the image out.

This is true in this case! Spoilering repeat images is a quiet bugbear of mine.

Anyway, you can just look in the post history for what I've changed, because it's your post!

I ain't a mod, can't see post history.

[nixshadow]

I made a terrible map
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...s/?id=71942269
Enjoy!


It's very confusing at first, but once you get past the first room it's smooth sailing.

[Inconspicularity]

I have a map that's currently in Beta (and friends only so add me) and I need testers and feedback.

First add me and then clicky.

[Solaris]

I ain't a mod, can't see post history.

Click your name.

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the part that i have bolded, you can click that

[williamcll]

Does doing speedruns and skipping whole sections of the map count as trolling its mapmaker?

[Quirk]

For all those who like Cave Johnson, have twenty-five minutes of Cave Johnson. All in one video.



Chariots chariots.

EDIT: OH GOG MY SIDES.

EDIT EDIT: OH GOG. MY SIDES.

[littlequietguy]

I laughed really hard at the new Cave lines. They Live reference, the Matriarch world, all that jazz. 100% hilarity.

[Inconspicularity]

Whoa... Can someone make a family tree of the Chell family of what we know now? I think Chell (Michelle) is the daughter of Greg and Caroline... but I have no idea.

[ashdenej]

Whoa... Can someone make a family tree of the Chell family of what we know now? I think Chell (Michelle) is the daughter of Greg and Caroline... but I have no idea.

Greg is the Pyro, Caroline is Greg's daughter... that must mean that Cave is the Pyro's son-in-law. Because Caroline and Cave had Chell.

This makes perfect sense.

[Walliard]

And the figure cut out from the Mann family photos is Cave's grandfather.

[Descriptor]

Holy cow, he stopped the resonance cascade in one universe!
Man these are so great.
I only wish there were more.
And infinite amount, to be exact.

Hmm...., better find alternate universe versions of Valve...

... Wait a second...
Maybe one of those have Episode 3 released! :O

Wait, no, that's crazy...

[Bobster]

Wait... Cave Prime canceled the GLaDOS project... does that mean that the storyline of Portal doesn't take place on Earth Prime?

[Portalboat]

In math, usually the prime of a variable (as in, A prime, B prime, etc.) is the second one.

[Not The Author]

Ah, I see. Cave Prime is from Earth 1, while Cave Johnson is from Earth.

[Portalboat]

Yeah, probably.
I think that Earth is where the Portal and Portal 2 storylines happen, while Earth 1 is the first Earth that came up with the mutiverse theory. (there's a reason that I said first- listen until the end of the video :3)

[Ablaze]

Just finished creating my second map. Feel free to play it and my other and let me know what you think!
http://steamcommunity.com/id/ablazed...iles?appid=620

Warning: my maps don't follow conventional solutions ;D

[JNJ]

Since the Cave Johnson who narrated all the short videos (http://www.youtube.com/user/Valve/feed, scroll down) before Portal 2 seems to be alive in relatively the present (and not, say, old Aperture), I've started to wonder if that Cave Johnson is in a separate universe from the one in the Lavos Glados Timeline, i.e. Portal 1 and Portal 2. Bankruptcy would be the least of that Aperture's problems.

Confession: I did not listen to that video, as great as it sounds (as indicated by the posts above me and by my experience with the quotes I've heard), because I enjoy hearing the new clips in test chambers. I think it adds something, which is why Valve bothered in the first place. *shrug*

[Elementoid]

I lost it at 16:20. This video is the Best Thing.

[ikkonoishi]

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...s/?id=72227180

Kind of open and sandboxy. The faith plates and gels are just for fun.