Forum | Thinking With Portals

#11 · May 24, 2011, 5:00 am

skipping most of your map:
ma9MnetWYZo

"There is always a shortcut, a quality map just make it difficult to find"

#12 · May 24, 2011, 12:27 pm

I liked it, had a lot of the feel of portal 1 maps (with gel) in that its very open, lot of portable surfaces and while there is an intended solution, its not the only one and the alternatives are arguably more advanced maneuvers to pull off. Was fun, look forward to your next one.

#13 · May 24, 2011, 7:40 pm

This didn't take me very long at all to figure out (although I guess I am a fairly advanced portlier, so don't feel bad) . I'm not sure what's up with the repulsion gel, I never actually needed it....There might be an unwanted solution that I found, allowing me to skip the gel. If you could just reply and say what the gel was for (in spoiler tags, of course) we can try to eliminate that.

#14 · May 25, 2011, 7:58 am

Techno Cat wrote:

This didn't take me very long at all to figure out (although I guess I am a fairly advanced portlier, so don't feel bad) . I'm not sure what's up with the repulsion gel, I never actually needed it....There might be an unwanted solution that I found, allowing me to skip the gel. If you could just reply and say what the gel was for (in spoiler tags, of course) we can try to eliminate that.

Spoiler

The gel was meant to be used to spray on both of the panel walls so that the player could bounce to the top and get the companion cube but there was an easy way where the player could just pop a portal at the top and jump across. The gel was then meant to be used to jump onto the partially raised platform, then put some onto the angled ramp, then jump of the raised platform and onto the gel to get enough height so that you could then use portals to drop onto the angled ramp and fling onto the platform with the 3rd cube