New and confused

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SimonDenton
2 Posts
Posted Jan 21, 2009
Hello Portal fans!

I am a new member burning with excitement to make a decent portal map. The twist is, I am not very good coming up with ideas just like with making my movies.

Anyway I can develop good ideas for Portal maps to make?

Thanks all :smile:

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Mek
459 Posts
Posted Jan 21, 2009
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What can I say... the ideas are base of every portal map and if I had ideas, I would make a new portal map. But I have no ideas (well, depleted all of them in my first and (yet) last portal map). Maybe you could find somebody who does not know how to make maps, but has great ideas. That would be exciting :wink:
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CabooseJr
67 Posts
Posted Jan 21, 2009
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Welcome to the social. Ideas are everywhere, you just gotta find the perfect inspiration.
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SimonDenton
2 Posts
Posted Jan 22, 2009
Replied 23 hours later

CabooseJr wrote:
You just gotta find the perfect inspiration. :wink:

Where could it be?

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Remmiz
631 Posts
Posted Jan 22, 2009
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SimonDenton wrote:
Where could it be?

If you need us to tell you, it won't work.

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IEatAtoms
2 Posts
Posted Jan 25, 2009
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Hey Simon, if you can map, I can map-out some concepts. I don't have the experience or skills to work with hammer but I've played the best of user-generated portal maps and I believe I have some unique concepts.

Send me a pm if you're interested in doing a little project together - I'm in the process of learning hammer now so I'm sure we can help each other out.

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Ricotez
738 Posts
Posted Jan 25, 2009
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I have a lot of great ideas. The problem is none of them actually involve portals.
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IEatAtoms
2 Posts
Posted Jan 25, 2009
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Looks like you're in the wrong place then.
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Stimich
31 Posts
Posted Apr 20, 2009
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Well... to get inspiration you can mix and / or twist any other things you think portal is going to be cool with... take me as an example, I do like Portal, and Timeshift and Blinx, Blinx an Timeshift you control time, therefor I have added a trigger in my map that slow time!
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Remmiz
631 Posts
Posted Apr 20, 2009
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Stimich wrote:
Well... to get inspiration you can mix and / or twist any other things you think portal is going to be cool with... take me as an example, I do like Portal, and Timeshift and Blinx, Blinx an Timeshift you control time, therefor I have added a trigger in my map that slow time!

Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 11:49 pm

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Stimich
31 Posts
Posted Apr 20, 2009
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Remmiz wrote:
Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 11:49 pm

Ain't I allowed to help? D:

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kizzycocoa
975 Posts
Posted Apr 25, 2009
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sometimes, you have to think outside the box.
I have many, many new ideas daily, type it in a text file here, and "shelf" it for use later. try to pick a theme.

test chambers? loads of ideas. I can think of many small ones, such as a "hanging box" that falls when touched, like the anger core in portal. a broken down section where the chamber is all malfunction...y :razz:

I use many ideas from expanding from aperture labs. there's aperture science, but I focus on other subsections of aperture laboratories.

it depends what you want to make. otherwise, it's hard to know what you want help with :smile:

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jrlauer
545 Posts
Posted Apr 27, 2009
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Remmiz wrote:
If you need us to tell you, it won't work.

Remmiz is right. We can't tell you what chambers to make that's up to you.