Quote from taco on January 14, 2008, 9:49 pm

Lorithad wrote:

First off: your .rar file is compilled so it's a pain in the ass to install. - Suggest not including the "tunneling chamber 01[v01]" folder in the .rar file, so as somebody can extract the files directly to the /portal/portal/ folder.

Yeah, my bad on that. I'll make sure to correct it when I move the map over to release.

Lorithad wrote:

Other than that, I must say, well done taco.

While I had to retry room 2 about two or three times to actually figure out how to do the technique correctly, I enjoyed it very much. Room 3 took me by surprise, but when I actually thought about it, I got it on my first attempt.

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it. Room 3 is actually the first puzzle that I designed (on paper) for the map but felt that the other 2 rooms were required to bring players up to speed.

If and when I make the 2nd tunneling chamber, things will most likely move in puzzle 3's direction from the get go (unless I add floor tunneling first).

Quote from Lorithad on January 14, 2008, 9:52 pm

I'd reccomend teaching floor tunneling asap, as not a lot of people appear to know how to do it all that well. Hell, I could probably use a few pointers at times.

Quote from taco on February 2, 2008, 2:08 am

Lorithad wrote:

I'd reccomend teaching floor tunneling asap, as not a lot of people appear to know how to do it all that well. Hell, I could probably use a few pointers at times.

I have begun roughing out Tunneling Chamber 02 which will focus on floor tunneling. It builds on wall tunneling and follows a similar progression to that of Tunneling Chamber 01: technique rooms followed by a puzzle room.

If players continue to show interest after that map is released, I will follow it up with at least 1 more that focuses entirely on advanced puzzle solving using tunneling.

Note: There is also ceiling tunneling, but I find it uninteresting (ducking under a very low piece of ceiling and jumping up through it) or very hard (placing portals while being flung upward) - not sure if I really want to go there.

Also of note: I have completed an updated version of Tunneling Chamber 01 (very minor changes). It will be released when the January Mapping Contest is over.

Quote from taco on February 19, 2008, 7:20 pm

Tunneling Chamber 01 [v02] has been uploaded to the download database.

Download: http://forums.thinking.withportals.com/dload.php?action=file&file_id=146

For the full list of changes, see the first post.