I'm sending this message because this website is among the most popular websites talking about the Half-Life universe. I found you via the Valve Developer Community, and I need to ask you a favor. We're a team of three frenchies, and we are happy to announce that our current project, Portal: Prelude is nearing its conclusion.

You may ask yourself, "what the hell is this all about" ? Portal: Prelude ? Never heard about this, huh ? Yes of course, and this is exactly the point. You never heard about it because it was developped in the dark, and kept secret until almost fully finished and polished. Now, the game is nearly finished and we are looking for sponsors to help us promote the game around the Internet and provide hosting if possible. First, we would really appreciate you to help us promote our work, by relaying the news and offering a link to our official trailer. And in a second time, if you are able to provide us with a hosting mirror for the game files (approximately 750 MB) please let us know by sending an email to [email protected].

Here's a list of media you can use to build a news :
- The body message here (if needed) : http://www.portalprelude.com/2008/09/wh ... -about.php
- The trailer : http://www.portalprelude.com/videos.php
+ Vimeo : http://www.vimeo.com/1739740
+ Dailymotion : http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6ro9g ... videogames
+ Youtube : http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=X2XExZ1FFoU

Others :
- Screenshots : http://www.portalprelude.com/screenshots.php
- The soundtrack : http://www.portalprelude.com/soundtrack.php
- The team : http://www.portalprelude.com/team.php
- The forums : http://www.portalprelude.com/forum/

The game is set to be released somewhere around the end of september, or the beginning of october.
We hope you'll take us seriously and help us to get the visibility we need.

Sincerely,
? NykO18 (Portal: Prelude Manager)

PS: Don't take me wrong if I post the same message on a lot of different places. That would have been sooooo long to make a custom one for every website. That doesn't mean you're not counting for us. Communication is hard.

-Portal: Prelude
-Test Subject 13
-Portal: Project Beta

I hope this turns out awesome as it looks

nice backing music (session by linkin park for those who dont know...)

reepblue wrote:
It looks awesome. . Well, Now I know 3 portal mods.

-Portal: Prelude
-Test Subject 13
-Portal: Project Beta

I hope this turns out awesome as it looks

Only "Portal: Prelude" is the best out of all of those three, It seems to have the polish to live up to almost a Second edition of Portal!

MrTwoVideoCards wrote:
Only "Portal: Prelude" is the best out of all of those three, It seems to have the polish to live up to almost a Second edition of Portal!

Thats because it is almost done and does not change anything like the player or the HUD. I don't know about TS 13 but Project Beta is still in Alpha. It needs work to be done

But this almost looks like Valve made it themselves. I'm really looking forward to this.

reepblue wrote:
But this almost looks like Valve made it themselves. I'm really looking forward to this.

Honestly I felt the same way.

I guess I'll have to shut it down now, because there's no word with the same meaning that's as cool as "prelude"

PelPix wrote:
I've been working on a mod of the same name for closing in on 4 years now-since the unofficial announcement of portal on facepunch, and the first screens in russian magazines. It had 18 hours of gameplay and tied up the storyline gaps between episodes 2 and 3.
I guess I'll have to shut it down now, because there's no word with the same meaning that's as cool as "prelude"

Huh, right...
You're working on it since 4 years ? Portal came out last year you know ? And if the storyline is between episodes 2 and 3, then it's a sequel, not a prelude. But well... good luck if that's true.

Hen7 wrote:
Looks great, wishing you the best of luck.

We hope to do as good a you did Hen7.

NykO18 wrote:
We hope to do as good a you did Hen7.

If you get a release through Valve on Xbox then you will have won +9000 internets .

NykO18 wrote:
Huh, right...
You're working on it since 4 years ? Portal came out last year you know ? And if the storyline is between episodes 2 and 3, then it's a sequel, not a prelude. But well... good luck if that's true.

It covers both before and after the game, in two parts, I was talking about the name of one out of two

Also, Jeep announced that they were hired to make portal for valve in mid-2005, so I started experimenting around then, most of the rest of it is recent-add