The Portal SDK

[soccerballtux]

DO WANT.

They mentioned it in the dev commentary; that got me thinking about the following Portal would develope if they released an SDK.

However, I think one of the things that made Portal great was the superb voice acting for GLaDOS; I can't imagine the game without it.

I've played through twice and I want to play through again already.

 

[examancer]

Portal looks and feels like a pretty simple Half Life 2 mod to me (thats not a knock on the game. its probably the best puzzle game i've ever played) I'm sure the 'portal' part isn't too difficult to figure out... so in a way aren't you asking for something that already exists? A Half-Life 2 SDK?

 

[soccerballtux]

Apparently there was a lot of physics tweaking in the Source engine to make Portal work.

I just want a Portal SDK officially named as such so everybody can get on with creating puzzles.

 

[nova2]

if the public SDK exposes enough code so one could create an extremely similar portal mod, then fine, but otherwise one may not find it worth the dev time to develop something half-baked.

i don't have any experience with the view frustum portion of their codebase - but if this portion isn't exposed enough then you wouldn't be able to see into other portals for instance.

then you have the problem with physics, as their dev commentary mentioned, it may just so happen that the physics code isn't exposed enough to fix the problems they encountered.

all this developing takes time and potentially even more time to find out that you cannot fix <insert problem here> because you have a limited SDK.

 

[Krakn3Dfx]

I'd like to see the Portal gun implemented into some HL2 mods or multiplayer maps. Of course, 16-32 guys running around shooting orange and blue portals all over the place would likely get confusing as hell.