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Portal: Prelude, as its name states it, is an unofficial prequel to the game Portal. Its story revolves around the pre-GlaDOS epoch, even before she was plugged in. At this time, test subjects were monitored by real Aperture Science employees, whose work was tedious, lengthy and repetitive. This is why they decided to build a great artificial intelligence that could both replace them in these difficult tasks, and also take responsibility for many other tasks within the complex and compete with Black Mesa's superiority.
All employees of the Aperture Science complex are now eagerly awaiting GlaDOS. Maybe even a little too eagerly, as the upcoming events will tell...
This game is totally free and set to be released somewhere around the end of the month. It offers a bit more gameplay hours than the original Portal, with 8 chapters, 19 test chambers, 48 challenges, 6 advanced maps, a brand new storyline and more than 400 lines of speech with english and french subtitles.
Remember kids, it's not just a mappack, it's a whole new story, and I hope that you'll appreciate the work done for you. The game is set to be released somewhere around the end of september, or the beginning of october.
Yesterday, we got our first contact with the french community manager of Valve. Yes, Valve. The marvellous company that brought Portal and so much more to us for years. Don't take me wrong, I'm not trying to seduce anyone, but believe me, it was huge. I was so happy and so scared at the same time. For your information, they don't seem to bother about us doing a prequel for Portal. They're even sending us their congratulations and they seem to enjoy what we're doing. So, please guys, stop saying everywhere that Valve is going to murder us, or something.
Trailer (http://vimeo.com/1739740)
Site (http://www.portalprelude.com/)
yay \0/
FischOderAal
09-20-2008, 06:51 AM
Great news :) ME WANT.
I'm really looking forward to this one.
JohnZS
09-20-2008, 07:08 AM
Kudos to vALVE for not suing the pants off them :)
I am looking forward to this to....I wonder if there will be cake
John
yeah looks great , i'd advise everyone to go onto the site , and contact , and send them a message of encouragement , 8months of great work! , i hope valve takes them on and makes this official!
ryboto
09-20-2008, 07:23 AM
totally free?!?!?!!?!!!!
Swatrecon_
09-20-2008, 07:28 AM
holy crap, ownage. I'm really glad Valve isn't making a fuss over it. They might even endorse it, sort of like they did with Blue Shift and Opposing Force. That would be pretty cool.
Gramner
09-20-2008, 07:38 AM
totally free?!?!?!!?!!!!
Yeah, but you will need to have Portal installed of course.
bedlamite
09-20-2008, 07:54 AM
Damn, me want's :D
Jamesrt2004
09-20-2008, 07:55 AM
hope to d/l it before valve pay the people who made it and sell it for like $5
G.Foyle
09-20-2008, 08:57 AM
Kudos to vALVE for not suing the pants off them :)
Valve will never, ever, discourage any modding effort on their engine. It's the main reason Valve are on the top.
cozwin
09-20-2008, 09:04 AM
Valve will never, ever, discourage any modding effort on their engine. It's the main reason Valve are on the top.
valve actually normally buy the decent ones :P
I'm looking forward to it!
Donnie27
09-20-2008, 10:13 AM
Valve will never, ever, discourage any modding effort on their engine. It's the main reason Valve are on the top.
That what I love about them! Come HL3:up:
rogueagent6
09-20-2008, 10:30 AM
Kudos to vALVE for not suing the pants off them :)
I am looking forward to this to....I wonder if there will be cake
John
When has Valve ever done something like that?
aintz
09-20-2008, 10:47 AM
valve loves mods. look at counterstrike still being sold :)
I wish they hadn't bothered announcing this until the thing was ready to download.
Kai Robinson
09-20-2008, 01:05 PM
Still waiting on Black Mesa to be finished...ohhh that had better be worth the wait! :D
madcho
09-20-2008, 01:10 PM
nice work
largon
09-20-2008, 01:35 PM
Dunno if there'll be the same feeling without GLaDOS...
:shrug:
:p:
Blauhung
09-20-2008, 02:06 PM
Dunno if there'll be the same feeling without GLaDOS...
:shrug:
:p:
Yeah, it'll feel odd without her robotic taunting. And now they have to come up with another song to play at the end too:p:
But all told I'm still dying to play this.
MaxxxRacer
09-20-2008, 05:06 PM
sweet. I cant wait.
madcho
09-21-2008, 12:09 AM
Yeah, it'll feel odd without her robotic taunting. And now they have to come up with another song to play at the end too:p:
But all told I'm still dying to play this.
Gllados was a very nice way to have fun. I hope too, that game is only about fun :D
Frank M
09-21-2008, 08:19 AM
Looking forward to it :)
thephenom
09-21-2008, 12:29 PM
But there's no cake. :(
STEvil
09-21-2008, 01:25 PM
Valve: What Blizzard could have been.
jbartlett323
09-21-2008, 01:38 PM
The Cake Is A Lie.... or was it?
Mad1723
09-21-2008, 02:51 PM
But there's no cake. :(
(insert obligatory "cake is a lie" joke here) :D
OzJustin
09-22-2008, 05:14 AM
Still waiting on Black Mesa to be finished...ohhh that had better be worth the wait! :D
Good to know I'm not the only one. Can't wait for it! :D
YukonTrooper
09-22-2008, 01:09 PM
I wish they would just release a map editor.
Swatrecon_
09-22-2008, 05:23 PM
I wish they would just release a map editor.
Source SDK has Hammer, I think you can use that.
STEvil
09-22-2008, 09:08 PM
I want a map editor that can be used in-game..
BulldogPO
09-22-2008, 10:34 PM
Is that Hammer easy to use?
G.Foyle
09-23-2008, 12:34 AM
Hammer itself is easy to use, but creating something that will look good and play good, well, thats a different story :D
IMO it's easier to learn than UEditor 3 or any ID Tech 4 editor, but some tasks might be a bit more cumbersome.
STEvil
09-23-2008, 12:35 AM
^^Gmod?
nope.
Now it's rather official, we plan to release the whole thing on the first birthday of the Orange Box. October 10th.
YAY
G0ldBr1ck
09-23-2008, 01:20 PM
Bah, to many other titles coming in October. Its gonna be "Portal who?". They should have got it out this month.
[XC] Lead Head
09-23-2008, 01:35 PM
Bah, to many other titles coming in October. Its gonna be "Portal who?". They should have got it out this month.
Oh yeah, lets release a game premature just because other games are coming out that month. You sound like EA:p:
Lead Head;3309746']Oh yeah, lets release a game premature just because other games are coming out that month. You sound like EA:p:
:rofl:
what games are coming out to challenge this 6 hour bundle of joy? , maybe the other Retail games should Beware this Mod :D
hausner
09-23-2008, 02:04 PM
awsome!
LordofDoom
09-23-2008, 03:42 PM
HOLY :banana::banana::banana::banana:ING EPIC
Swatrecon_
09-23-2008, 06:08 PM
I want a map editor that can be used in-game..
O, you mean like CryEditor, or whatever it's called. Right, that would be rather awesome. It doesn't seem like it would be too hard for a PC to handle either.
cky2k6
09-23-2008, 07:48 PM
god, i love valve for actually having a brain... its not even that they're nice, its that they have a pulse. i actually never bought orange box, cause i played portal on my friend's computer, but i'll buy it for this mod, and i want to play tf2.
STEvil
09-23-2008, 09:52 PM
O, you mean like CryEditor, or whatever it's called. Right, that would be rather awesome. It doesn't seem like it would be too hard for a PC to handle either.
Exactly.
Farcry style editor... with an online mode! :D
madcho
09-24-2008, 08:07 AM
O, you mean like CryEditor, or whatever it's called. Right, that would be rather awesome. It doesn't seem like it would be too hard for a PC to handle either.
Yeah a cry editor like would be awesome and very usefull :up:
G.Foyle
09-24-2008, 09:00 AM
Unfortunately this is impossible due to the nature of Source Engine. BSP tree, potentially visible sets and lightmaps all have to be pre-calculated; you have to compile every map before you can run it in the engine. Compiling is a lengthy process and for big maps it can take hours, even on fast quad core CPU.
Such editors are only possible in engines that have real time ambient maps and real time visibility calculation(Cryengine, UEngine 3).
Swatrecon_
09-24-2008, 03:45 PM
Unfortunately this is impossible due to the nature of Source Engine. BSP tree, potentially visible sets and lightmaps all have to be pre-calculated; you have to compile every map before you can run it in the engine. Compiling is a lengthy process and for big maps it can take hours, even on fast quad core CPU.
Such editors are only possible in engines that have real time ambient maps and real time visibility calculation(Cryengine, UEngine 3).
How unfortunate.
3lfk1ng
09-24-2008, 03:55 PM
Companion Cube? *sniffle*
STEvil
09-24-2008, 07:15 PM
Unfortunately this is impossible due to the nature of Source Engine. BSP tree, potentially visible sets and lightmaps all have to be pre-calculated; you have to compile every map before you can run it in the engine. Compiling is a lengthy process and for big maps it can take hours, even on fast quad core CPU.
Such editors are only possible in engines that have real time ambient maps and real time visibility calculation(Cryengine, UEngine 3).
Untrue.
Source can do it, you just have to save the state and vis it after ending the game.
JohnZS
09-25-2008, 01:39 AM
When has Valve ever done something like that?
Never and I admire them for it...but I might be wrong so please correct me on this but are vALVE now part or...or linked in some way to the gaming borg collective that is..EA games?
Can't wait till this is released as I'm a huge Portal and Half-Life 2 series fanboi :D
carholmes
10-08-2008, 06:49 PM
UPDATE: Portal Prelude has been released. Download Here. (http://www.fileplanet.com/192598/190000/fileinfo/Portal---Portal:-Prelude-Modification)
KoHaN69
10-08-2008, 07:48 PM
Valve: What Blizzard could have been.
Unlike being bought by them, vALVE fought off vivendi fiercely, and only partnered with EA for physical retail distribution and console ports. :yepp:
STEvil
10-08-2008, 08:40 PM
yup
Blauhung
10-08-2008, 10:05 PM
UPDATE: Portal Prelude has been released. Download Here. (http://www.fileplanet.com/192598/190000/fileinfo/Portal---Portal:-Prelude-Modification)
eww fileplanet. Looks like there's a torrent on mininova with 1 seeder, lol
Kondik
10-08-2008, 11:36 PM
Me Wants Stream ! I'd even pay for it but please I need a game that requires more than unbag seeds around your keyboard and lay over there a chicken and after 30 minutes here we have the endgame cinematics ! The Chicken did it !
.Logic
10-08-2008, 11:37 PM
This is going to be awesome...
Need to find a good torrent.
EDIT: Demonoid to the rescue :p: (as always I might add) I would put the torrent file up but I don't want to infringe upon forum rules :eek:
FischOderAal
10-09-2008, 12:02 AM
Fileplanet = epic fail
One of the most retarded websites in existence.
hurleybird
10-09-2008, 12:09 AM
I'll just wait till it gets on steam. Damn you gamespy!
Cooper
10-09-2008, 12:23 AM
Well it should be available for everyone tomorrow. Those who already downloaded the file might as well share it via filefront or torrents since it's free anyways.
FischOderAal
10-09-2008, 12:32 AM
Well it should be available for everyone tomorrow. Those who already downloaded the file might as well share it via filefront or torrents since it's free anyways.
Don't know. The developer gave it "exclusively" to fileplanet. Imho we should respect that and wait in line for free downloads or 24 hours when it's available for all.
€dith: Just started DLing *woohooooo*
€dith^2: Installing now :shocked:
€dith:
Here are three quick pictures :)
http://dl-client.getdropbox.com/u/81348/Portal_Prelude_1_small.jpg (http://dl-client.getdropbox.com/u/81348/Portal_Prelude_1.jpg)
http://dl-client.getdropbox.com/u/81348/Portal_Prelude_2_small.jpg (http://dl-client.getdropbox.com/u/81348/Portal_Prelude_2.jpg)
http://dl-client.getdropbox.com/u/81348/Portal_Prelude_3_small.jpg (http://dl-client.getdropbox.com/u/81348/Portal_Prelude_3.jpg)
DangeR!
10-09-2008, 02:51 AM
looking good.
I'm just trying to get a hold of it too :P, can't wait i love this game.
Mad1723
10-09-2008, 03:42 AM
It was available on FileFront as well. I downloaded the mod from there at 1Mb/s. it's really fun, and except GladOS(prequel, no GladOS), they keep the spirit of the original game :)
FischOderAal
10-09-2008, 03:47 AM
I'm at 11 atm. I found the chambers harder than in the original game though.
I am on the 14th chamber and I have to agree, they are much harder, anyone that hasn't finished the challenges on the original will have a really hard time with this mod. but other then a couple incredibly frustrating attempts, great fun :up:
Decami
10-09-2008, 06:45 AM
Valve: What Blizzard could have been.
and Blizzard could really care less, they are swimming in money, and will continue to swim in more. Probably twice as rich too.
note: Before anyone starts, I love, and support, both companies!
I am DLing Prelusde as well, I will miss glados:(
Is it just me or is there a lack of a crying smiley...
FischOderAal
10-09-2008, 06:46 AM
Dang. I'm in 19 now and I was able to get up there (with my little loved one), but what now? :( I just can't get any energy orb :(
€dith: Darrr. Just made it. Took me quite some time though...