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A small sphere with tethered controllers that could precisely track your hand movements. Manage cookie settingsД«efore VR, there was RazerвЂ™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 characterвЂ™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 didnвЂ™t do that for Portal 2, itвЂ™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 2вЂ™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 2вЂ™s release date. ThereвЂ™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 вЂњThe Potato SackвЂќ.

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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 вЂњPotatoFoolsDayвЂќ in their patch notes. In a remarkable inversion of вЂњValve TimeвЂќ, the localised phenomena that affects all of ValveвЂ™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 itвЂ™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 didnвЂ™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 PortalвЂ™s install folder and viewed through вЂњslow-scan television softwareвЂќ, 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 oneвЂ™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 вЂњMelвЂќ, but when the playtesters met GLaDOS again in the sequel and she didnвЂ™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 wasnвЂ™t much of a character and had already escaped. He said: вЂњIt was a lot of things, but it wasnвЂ™t Portal 2.вЂќ Though some elements of that version of Portal 2 still exist, with GLaDOSвЂ™ replacement Cave Johnson appearing heavily in the final game, writer Chet Faliszek pointed out at GDC 2012 that this wasnвЂ™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-вЂ™80s and based around a mechanic called вЂњF-StopвЂќ, which involved using a camera to grab sections of the gameвЂ™s scenery to solve puzzles. ValveвЂ™s initial experiments into a Portal follow-up jettisoned everything but Aperture Science. Portal 2 originally didnвЂ™t have any Portals in it 10 is a nice age to celebrate, and itвЂ™s also the perfect number of random facts to pluck from the history of one of ValveвЂ™s most celebrated games. IвЂ™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 wouldnвЂ™t let it go by.

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