This week's challenge is Light Bridges.
It has just three rules:
- Your puzzle must contain two light bridges.
- Both light bridges cannot be on at the same time.
- Both must be used to solve the puzzle (though obviously in different steps).
Everything else, I leave to you. They can be activated by the same element or different ones, so long as it's impossible to activate both at once.
Some methods to get you started:
- Link one button to both bridges, but start one bridge active, the other inactive.
- Both bridges are activated the same way (such via a cube button) but the player only gets one activation item (such as one cube).
- Two portals are required to activate either bridge (such as via portaling lasers into laser catchers).
- Both bridges are connected to timers, but it is impossible (EVEN WITH PORTALS) to reach the second timer before the first expires.
To submit puzzles to this challenge, post a link to them here:
http://steamcommunity.com/workshop/disc ... ?appid=620
The three best entries will be selected and featured on the Monday Madness episode of the Portal2Cast, 9-3-12.
Puzzles are graded on:
- Presentation & Lighting: Is it pretty?
- Navigation & Layout: Is it needlessly hard to traverse for reasons unrelated to solving?
- Transparency: Does the player have obvious goals? Is it clear what everything does?
- Elements-to-Difficulty Ratio: The harder your test is to solve, the fewer elements it should contain. (Anyone can make a test so clogged with buttons and triggers that it's hard to see what to do.)
- Playtesting: Can your test be beaten in unintended ways?
- Did it meet the requirements for the challenge?
Good luck, and as always, thanks for mapping!
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