Photonic
By: p0rtalplayer
Difficulty: Hard

An experiment in audiovisual aesthetic, Photonic offers a unique testing experience in never-before-seen chambers, with custom dynamic music by vanSulli.

Textures were created by Colossal for the map, though they are similar to his previous Confinement pack (that is, reversed dark/light scheme, yellow and blue tile highlights)

Interested in how the music was done? Check out the video I made.

Note: currently, the database doesn't parse BBcode, and the forums don't parse HTML. I'll work on integrating it one way or the other soon.

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Just wanted to point out that this map did pretty well and that the mappers here on mAI seem to be pretty well-exposed.

Background: I just enrolled in a college where people are generally pretty nerdy, and my thought of originality by wearing an Aperture shirt was ruined by the fact that everybody else was wearing video game shirts, and that Aperture and its variations were the most popular logo.

Some people were discussing this very map as I stepped out of a car; I said I composed the music, and on further investigation discovered that several other maps made by our own mappers also had a wide player base.

vanSulli wrote:
Some people were discussing this very map as I stepped out of a car; I said I composed the music, and on further investigation discovered that several other maps made by our own mappers also had a wide player base.

Wow, that's cool.

Of course, given that most of the mappers here have been around since portal 1 days and a lot of us are pretty high-profile in the mapping community, not a HUGE surprise. But a surprise nonetheless.

I hope that trend can continue with the launch of the site

vanSulli wrote:
Just wanted to point out that this map did pretty well and that the mappers here on mAI seem to be pretty well-exposed.

Background: I just enrolled in a college where people are generally pretty nerdy, and my thought of originality by wearing an Aperture shirt was ruined by the fact that everybody else was wearing video game shirts, and that Aperture and its variations were the most popular logo.

Some people were discussing this very map as I stepped out of a car; I said I composed the music, and on further investigation discovered that several other maps made by our own mappers also had a wide player base.

Well goes to show that all the work we put in isn't for nothing!

I hate to sound like a jerk, but...

Was I mentioned?