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It’s a shame this is tethered to a lost technology, because the additional puzzles were a lot of fun. Valve supported the release of this forgotten nunchucky controller with a large level pack released for Portal 2. A small sphere with tethered controllers that could precisely track your hand movements. Manage cookie settingsīefore VR, there was Razer’s Hydra. There is motion control DLC To see this content please enable targeting cookies. A third gel, that allowed the player to walk on any surface it was applied to, was tested for Portal 2 but cut for the final release. The team worked on both L4D games before joining the Portal 2 team and introducing the gel mechanics to the game, letting the player coat specific parts of levels with gel that aids the character’s speed and jumping ability. Valve had hired the team who made Tag: The Power of Paint back before Left 4 Dead was released. Though they didn’t do that for Portal 2, it’s still based on a student game from the same university. Valve famously hired the team of DigiPen students who made Narbacular Drop, a game about navigating levels with portals, to make Portal. Portal 2’s new mechanics were based on a student game To see this content please enable targeting cookies. It was a lot of work and only really resulted in a few hours being wiped off the launch time, but it did gather a huge number of participants and boosted the sales of a number of indie titles. The ultimate goal was to play the 13 indie games to knock time off of Portal 2’s release date. There’s a lot more, that you can read about in this Gamasutra article. As players picked apart the clues they were given logins and passwords to a website that let them download Portal 2 concept art.

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The update added a glyph into each game and a nonsense sentence, and all the games were bundled together and sold as “The Potato Sack”.

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In April of 2011, 13 seemingly unconnected indie games on Steam updated (including Audiosurf, Killing Floor, BIT.TRIP BEAT, and others) with “PotatoFoolsDay” in their patch notes. In a remarkable inversion of “Valve Time”, the localised phenomena that affects all of Valve’s development teams and causes many games to be delayed, Portal 2 was released hours before schedule.

The game was released early via a second ARG The whole saga is detailed in this fan wiki, and it’s worth reading to remind yourself (or educate yourself) of how creative Valve were with it. Valve went as far as to change the ending of the original game, adding a small sequence that suggested the escaped Chell was being dragged back into the facility for further testing.

They didn’t make it easy, but the payoff was the eventual announcement of the sequel.

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The morse code led to a Portal-themed bulletin board that had to be accessed via a phone line and a 56k modem.

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It was the sound files, found in Portal’s install folder and viewed through “slow-scan television software”, that contained scrambled Portal 2 imagery or even more morse code. They added 26 radios into the game that, when moved around, re-tuned to play a piece of morse code or a squelchy transmission sound. That one’s dead, after Valve updated it to announce the sequel. The first one is the self-contained story that Valve released on 10 October 2007. There are two versions of the original Portal. Portal 2 was announced inside Portal To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Chell was welcomed back to Aperture Science. Portal 2 was to star someone called “Mel”, but when the playtesters met GLaDOS again in the sequel and she didn’t know who Mel was, they felt like the game was missing the shared experience that the first game had built up.

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Valve swiftly added portals back into the game series called Portal, though they resisted adding Chell back as she wasn’t much of a character and had already escaped. He said: “It was a lot of things, but it wasn’t Portal 2.” Though some elements of that version of Portal 2 still exist, with GLaDOS’ replacement Cave Johnson appearing heavily in the final game, writer Chet Faliszek pointed out at GDC 2012 that this wasn’t what people wanted in a sequel. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. The game was initially going to be set in the mid-’80s and based around a mechanic called “F-Stop”, which involved using a camera to grab sections of the game’s scenery to solve puzzles. Valve’s initial experiments into a Portal follow-up jettisoned everything but Aperture Science. Portal 2 originally didn’t have any Portals in it 10 is a nice age to celebrate, and it’s also the perfect number of random facts to pluck from the history of one of Valve’s most celebrated games.

I’d like to think that the ultimate goal of Portal 2 was to get me to write an article about its tenth anniversary, so my ego wouldn’t let it go by.

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