LoveGLaDOS: a Portal map by Grax

Grax · Post by **Grax** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 10:24 pm

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

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.

d3jake · Post by **d3jake** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 11:14 pm

I'd play it if I had Portal... looks cool though.

CDN_Merlin · Post by **CDN_Merlin** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 5:12 am

d/ling

Genghis · Post by **Genghis** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 7:58 am

Now I'm wishing I'd bought the Orange Box for my PC rather than my Xbox. Portal changed my life! Now I'm starving for more Portal.

woodchip · Post by **woodchip** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 9:18 am

Ummm...what is Portal?

Richard Cranium · Post by **Richard Cranium** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 9:23 am

woodchip wrote:Ummm...what is Portal?

Check this out:
http://orange.half-life2.com/portal.html

While you are there check out Team Fortress 2

CDN_Merlin · Post by **CDN_Merlin** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 11:03 am

woodchip wrote:Ummm...what is Portal?

Has it been 3 years since you last left your hole?

Lothar · Post by **Lothar** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 5:27 pm

woodchip wrote:Ummm...what is Portal?

Quite possibly the best video game of the last 10 years.

Foil · Post by **Foil** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 5:36 pm

Lothar wrote:
woodchip wrote:Ummm...what is Portal?
Quite possibly the best video game of the last 10 years.

?!?! Wait a sec! Descent3 was released only 9 years ago...

Lothar · Post by **Lothar** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 6:12 pm

Foil wrote:
Lothar wrote:
woodchip wrote:Ummm...what is Portal?
Quite possibly the best video game of the last 10 years.
?!?! Wait a sec! Descent3 was released only 9 years ago... 8)

Whereas the real Descent was released 14 years ago.

DooM II > Descent 1 > Portal > Descent 3 >> Descent2

Foil · Post by **Foil** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 7:39 pm

Lothar wrote:DooM II > Descent 1

Them's fightin' words, bro...

[Although I'll agree that Descent > Portal and Descent3 >> DescentII]

WillyP · Post by **WillyP** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 8:14 pm

WhaT!!!

fliptw · Post by **fliptw** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 8:51 pm

double barreled shotgun for the win!

Kyouryuu · Post by **Kyouryuu** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 2:07 am

Looks great! Will have to try it.

Man, I love Source Engine.

woodchip · Post by **woodchip** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 10:03 am

CDN_Merlin wrote:
woodchip wrote:Ummm...what is Portal?
Has it been 3 years since you last left your hole?

Yes it has. My hole is a nice comfy place so why leave.

Looked at trailer and looks a bit cerebral. So all you get is a acme portal gun and off you go?

d3jake · Post by **d3jake** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 10:48 am

Foil wrote:
Lothar wrote:DooM II > Descent 1
Them's fightin' words, bro...

[Although I'll agree that Descent > Portal and Descent3 >> DescentII]

Lets lay this down saying that everyone it wrong, and
Descent1\\2\\3 > ∞

Really, its very variable from person to person... Pick what ya like and stick with it.

Top Wop · Post by **Top Wop** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 6:05 pm

So much hype and people playing Portal, guess ill try it, I want to be popular too.

Oh btw, Descent2 > everything else. You know it to be true.

WillyP · Post by **WillyP** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 6:12 pm

I like Descent 3...

Kyouryuu · Post by **Kyouryuu** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 1:16 am

woodchip wrote:Looked at trailer and looks a bit cerebral. So all you get is a acme portal gun and off you go?

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.

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.

Lothar · Post by **Lothar** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 5:26 pm

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.

Duper · Post by **Duper** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 6:43 pm

Grax, have you played with the new editor for UT3?

You can do some pretty cool stuff.. if you can tolerate the auto-save.

Grax · Post by **Grax** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 7:16 pm

I used UT3 last summer for about 3 months during an internship, but I haven't struck out on my own with it yet. What kind of stuff have you been doing with it, Duper?

fliptw · Post by **fliptw** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 9:14 pm

unrealed is more of a resource manager than a level editor.

Kyouryuu · Post by **Kyouryuu** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 1:44 am

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.

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.

Grax · Post by **Grax** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 5:12 pm

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

Dakatsu · Post by **Dakatsu** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 5:39 pm

I like UT3... and I made a level for it (currently I am replacing BSP with custom static mesh for it.)

d0ggY · Post by **d0ggY** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 10:26 pm

Grax, you're a wEIner.

Grax · Post by **Grax** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 6:29 am

Sup Griffin. Whats your contact info? I'd enjoy hearing about your latest shenanigans.

Theftbot · Post by **Theftbot** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 12:02 pm

I have all of valves games installed and it is encroaching on almost 20 gigs of space, i like half life 2 the dark levels where a flashlight is a given, not to mention poison headcrabs.

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