Hey guys! It's that time again. This community round-up will cover some of the best maps from May 8th through July 8th. Get ready to play some quality maps!

SINGLE PLAYER

The Lone Future Starter by Sejievan puts you in the place of a forgotten Aperture employee- left to rot in an abandoned docking station, your only objective is to get out of there. This well detailed map will show you outside the facility, like you've never seen it before.

Once you found your way out, you only managed to find a single-portal device. Don't worry, you can still play through Secondary Fire: Patience by RubyCarbuncle with a single portal! This map includes neat puzzles involving one portal.

After you finally found that dual portal device, let's go behind the scenes again. Interlude by ColorCubeMan has a small, enjoyable puzzle with amazing aesthetics behind Aperture.

Let's get back into classic tests. Logic Gravitational by Sleter will challenge your mind for a while.

Another chamber for you to try out is Photonic by p0rtalplayer. It's an excellent clean-themed map that includes custom music, textures, and more!

Don't worry, if single maps aren't enough for you, we've got two map packs. Forsaken Chambers by torquestomp has two satisfactory maps - along with the Statis Map Pack by Dreey, which contains absolutely amazing maps that are sure to keep you entertained.

Crash through the floor and end up in Flings & Roundabouts by Moth. This awesome underground-themed test is worth the play!

Memory Lose by GHoST61 is sure to interest you. With collectibles and new puzzles throughout, you'll have a great time playing through the map.

The original test elements can get quite repetitive... so how about some new ones? Introduction to Multidimensional Travel by Aicxe, Prey by Sicklebrick, and Solid_field by ColorCubeMan all have brand new test elements that you are welcome to try out!

Up for a challenge? Dojo of Pain(t) by MarKiu and SP Hard Light by greykarel will provide you with some tough tasks, are you enough of a ninja to complete them?

How about we take a break from tests, and head off to the Aperture Science State-of-the-Art Game Room and play a nice game of Cube Dozer by sicklebrick. This fun mini-game is a nice change of pace!

The fun doesn't stop there. Grab a partner and try these out...

COOP

Let's start off with Problematic by Insomnautik. Do you and your teammate have the wits to solve the problems in this challenging map?

Head underground and play Quad by JinxMontalgo. This Old-Aperture map will keep you and your partner thinking!

OTHER NEWS

ThinkingWithPortals is starting a new series of video reviews and playthroughs of maps posted here on TWP. The first up is a review by wstrika of the map "Aperture Offices":

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Watch out for more new video series, including a PTI review series called Mevious Hates Your Map and a coop playthrough series called Drinking With Portals.

Lastly, TWP has setup a new dumb tumblog for all of the ignorant, funny, and dumb comments posted on the Portal 2 Steam Workshop. Stop by Thinking With Portholes and submit some content to us!

That's all for the round-up. Hope you all have fun playing through these maps- see you next time!

Hello all,

We all know there are awesome games and toys and what's better than combining the best of them?
Portal and LEGO?
Lego cuusoo is a website where people can suggest ideas for new lego sets, and some awesome people suggested a portal 2 set. Once the set has 10,000 supporters LEGO will consider building it!

So visit the portal 2 lego cuusoo webpage and vote now and we might see portal lego in the future!
(you can also find more information there as well)

Here are some awesome pictures:

Here are the test results:

The twp community is awesome in creating awesomeness! This is not only limited to awesome portal 2 maps but also art and video's. For those who haven't checked out the thread here's a summary of some of the best entries:

this model is made by skotty

by zivi7

by brainstone

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by PixeledFace

by brainstone

by greykarel

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by Habzs

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By DamnImOnFire

A big thank you for everyone who made something, it's been awesome to see all your creativity!

Well done to everyone that has made something for us! Here is where you can download the advertisements to put in game:

TWP Advertisements

Hands down PixelFace has completely impressed us. Well done

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ThinkingWithPortals is looking (for someone) to create some sort of custom content to advertise us!

It has been brought to our attention that not enough people know about all the custom maps hosted here and having a custom animation / texture / model / sound for the: elevator screens / lightboards / interactive object / music motto is a great way for people to visit this site.

What do I get for doing this you may ask?

TWP will feature your creation on the site and you will gain a very nice advantage such as 1000's of potential people to see it.

Whoever submits an entree which we deem the winner by the 28th of this month will gain this honour (and perhaps something extra to give away for your efforts).

What your creation should have:

• What it is, is entirely up to you. But do be reminded that this is meant to advertise us, not anything else.
• It should be typically aperture-styled.
• It should be something general which people can just place or use inside their map. (such as a lightboard texture, an elevator animation etc.)
• The site name: thinkingwithportals.com should be absolutely noticeable when looking at your object
• If you are making an animation: try to make a vertical and horizontal version of it at 600x400 and 480x640. This however is not entirely necessary if it is going to be too much work. If that is the case you can just make either of the two sized animations.
• And lastly, your name or perhaps an avatar-logo included somewhere in it that credits yourself. You want people to know you made it afterall

Submit your entree through an attachment in a pm to us moderators or within this thread.

Good luck everyone!

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Today, I received the following text message.

Quote:
So Mevious and Motanum got featured in PCGamer mag in this article on the Perpetual Testing Initiative. I was bored at work and read it lol

My life is so thrilling. Looks like it's true; PC Gamer did a full page article on the PTI. Interestingly, three of TWP's all-stars (and some guy I've never heard of in my life) are named and featured!

yassermalaika, if you're reading this, register and make yourself known! Thanks to wstrika for risking his job for the tip.