[WIP] Portal: The Quest for Cake

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NullSoldier
41 Posts
Posted Oct 17, 2007
This is level 03 of 25 of Portal: The Quest for Cake. The Quest for Cake (TQC) is a single player portal map consisting of 5 levels of brain teasing puzzles. It features its own storyline, voice recordings, and original puzzles.

I decided to release this level as I may very well enter it as part of my october map competition. This level is supposed to be an easy-medium level. It doesn't take long to beat because it warms up the users skills. Please tell me what you think if you play it. I use oppinions to decide how I build my maps in the future.

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Mapster
396 Posts
Posted Oct 18, 2007
Replied 12 minutes later
If you fall into that floor where the button is, you can't get out.
The floor is unaligned by the teleporter
The button needs a longer reset time.

How did you get High dynamic lighting in the map without rebuilding geometry?

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NullSoldier
41 Posts
Posted Oct 18, 2007
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Should be able to shoot the ceilingabove and get out, did i accidently add a no_portal there? opps, if i did tomorrow i'll fix it.

EDIT: I just double checked, there is no no_portal on the roof. Just shoot the roof to get out, unless its too small? I wish I could have gotten the voice acting in their on time, I think that would have been neat. I just couldn't come up with any really good material.

The HDR kills it, I need to lower the brightness of the lights. I had someone else compile it in hl2dm for me with HDR and built cube maps.

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Mapster
396 Posts
Posted Oct 18, 2007
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Game Visuals
5/5
Greaty rooms, quite difficult to get around too

Sound Quality
5/5
About the only sounds were the platform and the voice at the start.

Puzzle Difficulty
5/5
Very trickey, took me a while to figure out how to do it.

General Gameplay Feel
4/5
Exciting but the sentry kept on ruining it.

You can make a portal up there but only if you are standing underneath it.
Too much of an angle

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Ralph
59 Posts
Posted Oct 18, 2007
Replied 7 hours later
Suffice to say it took me about 5 deaths to even figure out what the button did and I didn't manage to complete it... V.Hard.
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DiddyKong42
192 Posts
Posted Oct 18, 2007
Replied 8 hours later
Very nice. Challenging at first, trying different ways to do it. The turret was a little pest though. Very awsome map. Keep up the work Null
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y-aji
91 Posts
Posted Oct 18, 2007
Replied 14 minutes later
Game Visuals
4/5
Beautiful map, I noticed one or two spots that leaked. The spot that stood out to me was right before you entered the elevator, just a little leak. I loved that gman was in the window, made me laugh.

Sound Quality
3/5
Sounds were well inserted. I liked the general feel of the room, the sounds came of as murky and claustrophobic. However, the voice of GlaDOS kept repeating itself every time I went over to the initial starting point.

Puzzle Difficulty
4/5
The puzzle began a little misleading, as you couldn't see what the button did, unless you left your safe little corner. I liked how the puzzle was, in essence, very simple, but the options given made it difficult to get just the right order in there. I very much enjoyed this puzzle. The timer really threw me off as I was sure I didn't have time to solve the puzzle in time.

General Gameplay Feel
5/5
That turret sucked (Perfect placement to add annoyance). I was very impressed with how solid this short map was. For as small as the room was, it took me a suprisingly long time to get through it.

Ways to beat the puzzle: 1 that I could find.

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Spacemonkey
34 Posts
Posted Oct 18, 2007
Replied 55 minutes later
Game Visuals: 4
Nice textures, good lighting.

Puzzle Difficulty: 3
I think the time on the button is just a bit to short, I could never get there in time and could never finish the map.
Also the turret kept killing me, maybe add some cover. IMO, turrets should deny access to an area until they are taken out. This map forced exposure to the turret to much, and after getting shot multiple time I got killed.

Gameplay: 3
Short, but it's a WIP. And it's a good level and well set up puzzle.

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DiddyKong42
192 Posts
Posted Oct 18, 2007
Replied 6 minutes later
Its obvious to know what the button does if u have headphones or speakers
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Grudge
307 Posts
Posted Oct 19, 2007
Replied 11 hours later
As beautifully amazing as it looks, I hope you're going to release all 25 in a loading sequenced pack at the end of development. I don't want to play them seperately.
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NullSoldier
41 Posts
Posted Oct 19, 2007
Replied 30 minutes later
My campaign will work just like portal. There will be about 5 puzzles per load, depending on how big each one is and storyline inbetween puzzles as well such as mini storyline maps or puzzles.

I've been working on the intro atm.

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kevincheese
3 Posts
Posted Oct 19, 2007
Replied 15 hours later
I'm sorry, maybe I'm missing something here, but where's the link for this?
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msleeper
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Posted Oct 19, 2007
Replied 28 minutes later

kevincheese wrote:
I'm sorry, maybe I'm missing something here, but where's the link for this?

First post, attachment.

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DiddyKong42
192 Posts
Posted Oct 19, 2007
Replied 15 minutes later
Be cool if at the end u get a boss in there xD
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Rivid31
152 Posts
Posted Oct 19, 2007
Replied 24 minutes later
This map was pretty good, and I don't think you need to adjust the button timer or anything. Also I had no problem getting out of the hole next to the button. You can shoot a portal on the ceiling if you turn to the side.
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CabooseJr
67 Posts
Posted Oct 27, 2007
Replied 7 days later
I see no attachment. It would be nice to play this map.
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msleeper
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Posted Oct 27, 2007
Replied 3 hours later
It's attached to the original post.
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Grudge
307 Posts
Posted Oct 27, 2007
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I cant see it either.
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roger federer
75 Posts
Posted Oct 27, 2007
Replied 1 hour later
i wana play, can someone post this up again? or was it limited time?
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DiddyKong42
192 Posts
Posted Oct 27, 2007
Replied 2 hours later
Here.

I still have it and here it is.

dload.php?action=filefile_id=57

Have fun.

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