Quote from El Farmerino on May 24, 2012, 12:30 am

Markiu - thanks for the feedback. Looking forward to your gel puzzle; hope it's not too evil...

marKiu wrote:

Very clever but it's possible to jump from the button on the glass. That made it alot easier.

I swear, every map I make I get a new bane of my mapping existence - this time it was jumping on buttons (already had zivi jumping through the ceiling in the first release). Anyway, thanks for pointing that out. Still, I couldn't actually pull it off myself, so I might leave that one in for the ninja players. Ditto for the no gel solution for the final room - possible, yeah, but I found it a lot harder without than with, and I'd like to keep it at a level of difficulty that's somewhat accessible to more casual players.* Turns out I do need to update anyway, though, because I totally forgot to do the player clipping on that hole in the wall...

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The gel room was a bit too short in my opinion. You could have thought about something more there...

Yeah, it is a bit short, but like I said in the OP - big holiday coming up and I wanted to finish first; I didn't want to half-ass another puzzle in and push it out with barely any time for bugfixes etc. before I leave. I might come back to it at another point and flesh it out a bit. .

*EDIT: Haha, actually, on closer inspection you can just place it in. Right, will sort that out!

Quote from sicklebrick on May 24, 2012, 3:21 pm

Very nice puzzle ^^
I'm loving these hybrid puzzles, marked out in the puzzle creator then tweaked in hammer - seems to be a nice tradeoff between design time and flexibility. My only real concern was that this particular gymnasium has a distinct lack of cheerleaders.

Edit: Some alt solutions
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Quote from El Farmerino on May 25, 2012, 8:36 am

sicklebrick wrote:

Very nice puzzle ^^
I'm loving these hybrid puzzles, marked out in the puzzle creator then tweaked in hammer - seems to be a nice tradeoff between design time and flexibility.

Yeah, I'm personally really liking the new editor - makes troubleshooting puzzles and trying out new things really quick and easy, where my rudimentary Hammer skills would have me working for 8 hours and then scrapping all of it at times.

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Edit: Some alt solutions

Ah, shit, what's sicklebrick gonna to my map now....

Actually, nothing too bad, although that [spoiler]pressing the button through the portal[/spoiler] may have to be stamped out. Love the catch in the first room. Cheers for the vid!

Quote from sicklebrick on May 25, 2012, 1:11 pm

El Farmerino wrote:

although that [spoiler]pressing the button through the portal[/spoiler] may have to be stamped out.

Yeah, I didn't expect that to work at all... especially considering how picky cubes can be through portals!

Quote from Dinosawer on July 31, 2012, 3:29 pm

Fun map! Especially the [spoiler]cubethrowing[/spoiler] was really cool.
This is what I came up with, but I'm quite sure my solution for the second chamber was unintended:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dla0sC2EM_o

Quote from El Farmerino on July 31, 2012, 8:56 pm

Dinosawer wrote:

I'm quite sure my solution for the second chamber was unintended

Haha, yeah, just a bit. Thought I'd stamped out that kind of thing but evidently not... Thanks, I'll see if I can do something about it.

BTW, you can just shoot a portal at the end of the funnel from above. You don't need to actually go through it.

Quote from PCdoc on August 10, 2012, 2:14 pm

Stuck again . . . refusing to watch video - again . . . don't even wanna watch "The Ledge" video. How to get through the first fizzler in first room. Very preplexing and with almost no visible mechanics to apply some special trick with.

BTW I just finished Gymnasium 1 which was one of your easier puzzles IMO.
But still fun - racing to the exit in 2 seconds. I love minimalist maps !!!

P.S. Boxy Trixy remains my favorite map and it is far from minimalist - even though it is Portal 1, I just love that map..

Quote from El Farmerino on August 10, 2012, 7:54 pm

The best I can say about that is not to think too hard, as the solution is kind of stupid... There's a hefty clue [spoiler]in the map description too.[/spoiler]

I'd be interested in knowing how you did the second half of Part 1, if you wouldn't mind explaining.