GLaDOS@Home: Boot sequence complete. Commence testing.

Here are the results to ThinkingWithPortal's final Portal 1 mapping contest. Congrats to all of the mappers who entered!

1st Place: Afterburn by Amran -- Total 4.63 out of 5
2nd Place: MotanumsTest by Motanum -- Total 4.08 out of 5
3rd Place: Dyad by Mevious -- Total 4.01 out of 5
Kizzycocoa Award: Aperture Rockets by Crabby -- Better luck next time!

The winners have already been contacted about their prizes. Congrats you three! Go ahead and play our new Community Spotlight map, Afterburn, while we wait for Portal 2 to release!

Want to hear what the judges had to say? Continue reading the thread for more! You can view the full contest results here.

With Portal 2's release literally imminent, and with the return of a large increase in traffic (which as since started to cripple my poor, old server), I have moved the ThinkingWithPortals.com websites to their own dedicated hardware. Previously the TWP sites were running on the same server as my personal site and a few other things. I'm certain this will help (and hopefully resolve!) any load problems we have been having.

Secondly, I went ahead and updated the forum software to the latest version. In theory this should help us stop the spam bot problem (which has, if you've noticed, actually decreased the past month or so). With any major upgrades to a heavily modified site like this one, there are bound to be some bugs cropping up. Please report any issues with the forum - and especially with the Download Database - to this thread! Thanks.

And lastly, I'd like to congratulate our newest staff member, WinstonSmith! As the site will no doubt grow in the coming days and week, we will definitely appreciate his help keeping ThinkingWithPortals.com at the top of the Portal 2 custom map community sites.

Play the 13 Indie games in The Potato Sack to help Portal 2 release early! See this page for more info:

http://www.aperturescience.com/glados@home/

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Remember the Potato Sack? GlaDOS is apparently drawing "power" from computers playing games in the potato sack. For every collective 48 hours for one particular game, that game's "power bar" goes up by 1%.

Potatoes multiply any progress gained by the number you currently hold. Even if you don't own all of the Potato sack games, obtaining potatoes goes a long way to help the cause!

Read the official Portal 2 comic "Lab Rat"!

Read it on the official Portal 2 site