Forum | Thinking With Portals

#1 · November 8, 2011, 11:27 am

My first ever published map (Prime->Primal)A fairly short, fairly easy map in the destroyed aperture style (Decay)that contains two test chambers and a linking sectionin between them.
V1.1- Fixed some major puzzle issues in the level (most notably the ones pointed out by John 11)

File Name: Primal Decay.zip
File Size: 2.91 MiB
Click here to download Primal Decay

#2 · November 8, 2011, 7:06 pm

Nice Maps - easy to follow - all elements worked fine - it seemed a bit laggy at times - but fun to play - liked the music and the GlaDos voice. Keep up the good work!

#3 · November 9, 2011, 10:17 am

Yup, a bit laggy sometimes (Like near the faith plate or at the map entrance) but not bad overall.
Many misaligned textures, you might want to work on that.

It also can be done without using the funnel (I have used it, but there're like 3 or 4 more ways to solve that chamber)

Blind playtest:
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(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0AGhFdz6b8)

#4 · November 9, 2011, 12:12 pm

Fairly simple puzzles, but they are at least functional. In the second puzzle, the portal surface below the funnel needs to be raised a little bit, as it will damage you if you try to pass through a portal on that surface. Also, from a design perspective, the button in the second puzzle that reverses the direction of the funnel is completely unnecessary.

Spoiler

You can simply leap into the funnel, ride it to the redirect cube, and then travel back towards the origin of the funnel via a parallel funnel.

#5 · November 9, 2011, 3:35 pm

I've been doing least portal runs of custom maps. Here's what I did here:
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#6 · November 9, 2011, 4:35 pm

Wow, really need to test my map more thouroughly (and get better play testers). I'll work on fixing the issues, i noticed that nobody used my intended solution in the second chamber

Spoiler

where i used the portal surface under the funnel to push the cube out of the funnel it starts in then used the reverse funnel to pull it back towards the portal surface next to where you're standing

. Well done for finding faults in my brain!

#7 · November 9, 2011, 5:26 pm

I've uploaded v1.1 which fixes the skips made in John 11's video and also changed the second test chamber to make my intended solution more viable

#8 · November 10, 2011, 7:01 am

I'm playing custom maps and record my first time of playing them. So the run is not perfect and may not use only intended ways, but maybe it can let you see how other people may understand the map or you could just enjoy someone playing this map for entertainment.
Anyways, here is the recording:

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(Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StRvPsIM7cA)

Also note the video description for more feedback and my signature for additional project information.

#9 · November 10, 2011, 11:02 am

Well done Djinndrache, you win the prize for the first person to actually use the intended solution to the second chamber

#10 · November 10, 2011, 6:23 pm

SonaShaS wrote:

Well done Djinndrache, you win the prize for the first person to actually use the intended solution to the second chamber

I hope the prize is cake!

[SP] Primal Decay