Quote from PCdoc on January 2, 2012, 6:21 pm

The 1st room looked great - just needed a puzzle.
The 2nd room with the funnel running across the top was "OK" but needed more complexity
The 3rd room was innovative and a lot of fun - kudos. One thing - did you notice that the cubes are non-solid ? I could not stand on them and I could walk right through them.
The repetitious "press button, exit, dead Portal girls in the pit, etc" over and over again got to be a pain.
The puzzle with the "Follow Me" Franken-Turrets - looked very interesting. BUT it just faded away.
The shaking, electric chamber of death looked very cool but it faded away too. These puzzles fading away were a bit maddening.

Interesting environments that need to be converted into puzzles, one excellent puzzle, and a series of fake stuff that should be dumped..

Quote from KennKong on January 4, 2012, 4:48 pm

lifeson99 wrote:

To be honest, I have not yet played the rest as I got stuck in the next room for MeathPack_LWN. It has some odd way of getting through the door that is not apparent to me. The sign on the wal clearly says to "Press" the button to "Open" the door - but the button Press does not such thing.

I think you're talking about the room with the Hammer screenshots. [spoiler]By the door, there is a sign on the floor. Pick it up, and carry it to the entity property screen and drop it on the trigger field.[/spoiler] It's a meta-game aspect, using Hammer within the game to make the game work. I have read the interviews, but I don't recall them discussing this particular idea.

The articles are about level design, and the idea was to use Portal to illustrate the discussion. The "Level with me" chapter is the result. Since the level designers had little or no experience with Portal, the result is rather un-Portal-like.

In the first chapter, the room with reversed gravity for the cube was a novel idea. The room with the vertical funnel was just a pain in the neck because it required hitting key portal surfaces from a distance through a lot of visual clutter.

I played through the whole thing once, and didn't think it was a waste of my time, but I also immediately deleted it, and won't miss it one bit. 2/5 from me.