Quote from quatrus on May 15, 2012, 9:05 pm

Nice map, interesting fling puzzle to solve. Thanks for mapping.

Quote from El Farmerino on May 15, 2012, 9:49 pm

Cheers! Like you said in your Workshop comment, it's pretty easy, but this was more of a test of the concept than anything else and a chance to work on my visual design skills in a small space.

Quote from Logic on May 16, 2012, 7:58 am

The puzzle is good enough, but clumsy... Really clumsy....

[spoiler]- The faith plate has no function since you can simply portal yourself up there again
- You can't see what the buttons actually do! Why? Place the funnels so that you can see them
- The final fling to get to the exit was just clumsy in my opinion[/spoiler]

The aesthetics are also good enough, but they wont win any awards. The map needs more details.

[spoiler]- What is up with the sideways texture by the entrance that makes your portal place itself sideways?[/spoiler]

Quote from El Farmerino on May 16, 2012, 8:52 am

@Logic:
[spoiler]The fact that you can't see the funnel is kind of the point. You can use the two sideways portals to see what you're doing - hence the title. You're supposed to bounce yourself off the faith plate into the lightbridge to make the fling - If you do that you'll make it every time. The fact that you made it without that is a failing on my part.[/spoiler]

Quote from Logic on May 16, 2012, 9:31 am

El Farmerino wrote:

@Logic:
[spoiler]The fact that you can't see the funnel is kind of the point. You can use the two sideways portals to see what you're doing - hence the title. You're supposed to bounce yourself off the faith plate into the lightbridge to make the fling - If you do that you'll make it every time. The fact that you made it without that is a failing on my part.[/spoiler]

Aha, hmm. It's probably the fact that you can do it without looking through the portals that makes the puzzle bad in my opinion. It was almost impossible to do the fizzler/ball/funnel puzzle in Double Bill.

I did figure if out that you were supposed to use the light bridge/faith plate to make the final jump, but I had already solved it in another way at that point.

The last post had a bit of a dark tone to it. It's not a bad map. But I would have gone with a different approach to the puzzle-elements. How about this as an idea for the funnel-puzzle:

Just a though No, cleaver idea on the fling to the final door part though...

Quote from El Farmerino on May 16, 2012, 9:58 am

I've updated the map so the fling is impossible without the bridge, but I've got a good idea about the other puzzle I'm just gonna test out... Watch this space. Cheers for the feedback at any rate!

EDIT: Yeah, my idea worked! I think it'd be very difficult to solve it randomly now....

Quote from KennKong on May 23, 2012, 8:56 pm

I guess I just missed the portal placements, but I had difficulty getting a decent line of sight to the funnel. I liked the combo fling to the exit. This was a good little puzzle, and I'd like to see it included in a longer series of test chamber. 4/5.

Quote from El Farmerino on May 24, 2012, 12:04 am

KennKong: Thanks for playing. [spoiler]The best view is from using the two sideways portal helpers - that's as good as I could get it but admittedly still not perfect. It's a little bit of a restriction with the puzzle idea itself....[/spoiler] Glad you enjoyed it at any rate. I've been thinking about remixing some of my recent maps into a longer test at some point (probably at the end of the year) so you way well see that.

Quote from BEARD! on June 22, 2012, 8:20 am

I left a comment on the workshop page, but I wanted to add a few further remarks here. As I said, the chamber was very enjoyable and there were no real problems with my play through and the chamber's construction. The final fling at the end was a stroke of genius, as far as I'm concerned, and I'd like to see more puzzles involving it. For example: [spoiler]fling yourself via the lightbridge to turn on some blue gel, then fling yourself into the bridge and bounce off it, using the gel to reach a new area[/spoiler].