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Portal - the Flash Version is a kick-ass Time Waster
Armor Games is publishing a fan-made re-creation of Valve's incredibly popular game Portal as 2-D puzzle platformer called Portal - the Flash Version, and it's awesome. The concept is the same; you have an Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device (ASHPD) that you can use to create blue and yellow portals that are connected. Objects passing into one portal, including yourself, emerge from the other one.
The game is then a puzzle of figuring out how to get from entrance to exit without dying. As you progress, the obstacles you are presented with increase, as does the challenge level. It's clever, stylish, at times brain-twisting, and always fun.
I have to wonder at the legality of this kind of homage game. When it starts, the following disclaimer is presented:
Valve Software did not contact the developers of the following game during or before the development of the game. This is a fan made game. All links associated with this game are fan sites, and has nothing to do with producing or publishing Portal.
What do you think?
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Subscribe to commentsdouglasDec 16th 2009 1:56PM
I don't remember there being turrets, but this game has been out almost as long as portal.
DrakkenfyreDec 16th 2009 1:57PM
Uh, this is old. Armor Games isn't "publishing' anything. The game dates back to Portal's release. Valve itself has linked to it if I remember. There is also a level pack that recreates the Flash version's levels in the real game. Valve is totally fine with it.
DrakkenfyreDec 16th 2009 2:00PM
Additionally, there are lots of "homage" games to Valve's games. They are totally fine with it. And has even linked to some of them.
WrinkliezDec 16th 2009 2:06PM
If you guys are into Portal remakes, you could take a look at http://cymonsgames.com/asciiportal/
its portal, completely done in ascii. impressive, if nothing else.
WrinkliezDec 16th 2009 2:08PM
Oh, and it's for Linux also... so it can fill that ever-annoying Linux story gap.
DrakkenfyreDec 16th 2009 2:12PM
Not to spam a third comment, but look up "Codename: Gordon", which was a 2D side-scrolling game based on Half-Life 2. It was fan-made, and loosely recreated the game. Valve liked it so much they put it on Steam.
The only reason it isn't listed anymore is because the company that made it went out of business, and some porn company bought the domain name used in the game's information. The address was hard-coded into the game, and couldn't be changed. So if anybody clicked the link, they would be taken to a porn site instead of the original developer's site.
You can still install the game, just have Steam running, and go to this address
steam://install/92
They simply took the listing out of the Steam website.
sRcDec 16th 2009 2:47PM
awesome! I was trying to find out if that was still downloadable just the other day, too
kyleabakerDec 16th 2009 2:40PM
As already mentioned, I last played this flash version ~2 years ago. Great time waster though!
der_tuxmanDec 16th 2009 2:54PM
Must.. play... more... raaaaaah
Muffin_manDec 16th 2009 5:01PM
Also if any of you want a cool Portal map pack download Portal Prelude. It has its own story and everything. Some very challenging puzzles in it too.
Thomas HoustonDec 16th 2009 6:23PM
Still an all-time fav flash game. So well done!
techpopsDec 17th 2009 4:49PM
Well it was new to me. Missed this when it rolled around the first time I guess. Looks interesting, will give it a go later.
I'd bet most software houses would be fine with little flash games that use what are general or samey words in the title. But I betcha if this went viral and started making money. They'd be all over it like a rash.
A scrabble rip off springs to mind here.
Eric HDec 18th 2009 3:50PM
Well considering they have included the levels of the game in some of their releases I think they are pretty cool with it.