Showing posts with label portal 2. Show all posts
Showing posts with label portal 2. Show all posts
Monday, March 23, 2015

Level With Me, vol. 1 re-release (v1.1)

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I have updated my old experimental Portal 2 mod "Level With Me" to work with current versions of Portal 2. This mostly involved re...
Saturday, January 12, 2013

The unportalable: games as paratexts and products

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Several years ago, I sat-in on a "games as literature" course, and promptly got into an argument with the instructor. We were t...
Thursday, December 6, 2012

Specially Level with Me, at Rock Paper Shotgun (updated)

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Part 2 is up now. We talk about Portal 2 puzzle design, inspirations behind the underground chapters, and certainly nothing about HL3. I...
Friday, January 20, 2012

Level With Me, a post-mortem / some unnecessary notes / dear players, it's no longer okay to not know how video games work.

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To be clear, I think all readings of "Level With Me" are valid, even the ones that say it's pretentious (though I think it...
Thursday, December 22, 2011

Level With Me, a Portal 2 mod

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STARING EYES! It's unofficially Radiator vol. 3, and the only mod I'll have put out in the last two years. Watch this space  as r...
Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Portal 2 Modding Minutiae

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While working on Level With Me, I've gathered a set of random Portal 2 modding knowledge that might be useful. Please profit from my tri...
Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Dark Past (part 4): The Useful Post (?) or Randy Smith's "valence theory" of level design.

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This is a series of posts that analyzes the immersive sim . It's a play on the excellent RPS feature, Dark Futures . Many moons ago, I...
Monday, July 11, 2011

How Tutorials Should Be Done

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Why make sloppy pop-up text "tutorials" that give away all the mechanics / dynamics (I'm looking at you, BioShock) when you ca...
Wednesday, June 22, 2011

A summer mapping initiative

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It's so refreshing to make Portal 2 levels -- you have an idea, you make it, you test it, you detail it, you test it, you fix it and th...
Saturday, June 11, 2011

Question for the colorblind / an idea of accessibility and audience?

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Was choosing "red" a bad idea / horribly insensitive to colorblind people? Like, will they be able to distinguish the non-portalab...
Saturday, May 28, 2011

A Faster Horse

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Did Valve hire fashion designers? I feel like their costumes are always so... solid? Not glowy bits everywhere . It would be foolish to c...
Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Now in the pipeline...

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I'm playing with the Unofficial Portal 2 SDK. UPDATE: huh, well whaddaya know, the real SDK is now up. "The Meat Pack." ...