Test Chamber 19 Portal
. WW: May 12, 2014Mode(s)Portal is a - developed and published. It was released in a called for, and in 2007. The game has since been ported to other systems, including, and.Portal consists primarily of a series of puzzles that must be solved by the player's character and simple objects using 'the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device', a device that can create inter-spatial between two flat planes.
Portal: Test Chamber 19 And Fire Pit! – YouTube, I will be uploading a full portal walkthrough soon. Portal walkthrough – Chapter: 11 Test chamber 19 and creditsby Wachtsseu2,082 views. Choose which graph you want to display and which type of chart you want to use to display data comparison. After i get past the fire in test chamber 19, the first door i come up to doesnt open and ive watched walkthroughs and it is supposed to open. Aug 24, 2012 Now the moving platform is taking you to a large pit of fire that you, obviously, need to avoid. Look across the large room for a landing just past the fire pit. Launch a blue portal onto the wall.
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The player-character, is challenged and taunted by an named (Genetic Lifeform and ) to complete each puzzle in the Aperture Science Enrichment Center using the portal gun with the promise of receiving cake when all the puzzles are completed. The game's unique physics allows kinetic energy to be retained through portals, requiring creative use of portals to maneuver through the test chambers.
This gameplay element is based on a similar concept from the game; many of the team members from the who worked on Narbacular Drop were hired by Valve for the creation of Portal, making it a to the game.Portal was acclaimed as one of the most original games of 2007, despite criticisms of its short duration and limited story. The game received praise for its originality, unique gameplay and dark story with a humorous series of dialogue.
GLaDOS, voiced by in the English-language version, received acclaim for her unique characterization, and the end credits song ', written by for the game, was praised for its original composition and humorous twist. Portal is often cited as one of the. Excluding Steam download sales, over four million copies of the game have been sold since its release, spawning official merchandise from Valve including plush Companion Cubes, as well as fan recreations of the cake and portal gun. A standalone version, titled, was released on the service in October 2008, which added an additional 14 puzzles to the gameplay, and a sequel, which was released in 2011, adding several new gameplay mechanics and a cooperative multiplayer mode. A more advanced portal technique.
The character builds up speed using two blue portals, to reach an otherwise unreachable area. The second blue portal is carefully created in mid-air, after exiting the orange portal for the first time, destroying the first blue portal in the process.In Portal, the player controls the protagonist, from a as she is challenged to navigate through a series of rooms using the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device, or portal gun, under the watchful supervision of the artificial intelligence. The portal gun can create two distinct portal ends, orange and blue. The portals create a visual and physical connection between two different locations in.
Neither end is specifically an entrance or exit; all objects that travel through one portal will exit through the other. An important aspect of the game's physics is momentum redirection. As moving objects pass through portals, they come through the exit portal at the same direction that the exit portal is facing and with the same speed with which they passed through the entrance portal.
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For example, a common maneuver is to jump down to a portal on the floor and emerge through a wall, flying over a gap or another obstacle. This allows the player to launch objects or Chell over great distances, both vertically and horizontally, referred to as 'flinging' by Valve.
As GLaDOS puts it, 'In layman's terms: speedy thing goes in, speedy thing comes out.' If portal ends are not on parallel planes, the character passing through is reoriented to be upright with respect to gravity after leaving a portal end.Chell and all other objects in the game that can fit into the portal ends will pass through the portal. However, a portal shot cannot pass through an open portal; it will simply deactivate or create a new portal in an offset position. Creating a portal end instantly deactivates an existing portal end of the same color. Moving objects, glass, special wall surfaces, liquids, or areas that are too small will not be able to anchor portals.
Chell is sometimes provided with cubes that she can pick up and use to climb on or to hold down large buttons that open doors or activate mechanisms. Particle fields known as emancipation grills, occasionally called 'fizzlers' in the developer commentary, exist at the end of all and within some test chambers; when passed through, they will deactivate any active portals and disintegrate any object carried through. The fields also block attempts to fire portals through them.Although Chell is equipped with mechanized heel springs to prevent damage from falling, she can be killed by various other hazards in the test chambers, such as turret guns, bouncing balls of energy, and toxic liquid. She can also be killed by objects falling through portals, and by a series of crushers that appear in certain levels. Unlike most action games at the time, there is no indicator; Chell dies if she is dealt a certain amount of damage in a short time period, but returns to full health fairly quickly. Some obstacles, such as the energy balls and crushing pistons, deal fatal damage with a single blow.noted, in its initial review of Portal, that many solutions exist for completing each puzzle, and that the gameplay 'gets even crazier, and the diagrams shown in the trailer showed some incredibly crazy things that you can attempt'. Two additional modes are unlocked upon the completion of the game that challenge the player to work out alternative methods of solving each test chamber.
Challenge maps are unlocked near the halfway point and Advanced Chambers are unlocked when the game is completed. In Challenge mode, levels are revisited with the added goal of completing the test chamber either with as little time, with the least number of portals, or with the fewest footsteps possible. In Advanced mode, certain levels are made more complex with the addition of more obstacles and hazards.
Synopsis Characters The game features two characters: the named, and (Genetic Lifeform and ), a computer that monitors and directs the player. In the English-language version, GLaDOS is voiced by, though her voice has been altered to sound more artificial.
The only background information presented about Chell is given by GLaDOS; the credibility of these facts, such as Chell being adopted, an orphan, and having no friends, is questionable at best, as GLaDOS is a liar by her own admission. In the 'Lab Rat' comic created by Valve to bridge the gap between Portal and, Chell's records reveal she was ultimately rejected as a test subject for having 'too much tenacity'—the main reason Doug Rattman, a former employee of Aperture Science, moved Chell to the top of the test queue. The logo for Aperture Science LaboratoriesPortal takes place in the —Aperture Science for short—which is a research facility responsible for the creation of the portal gun. According to information presented in Portal 2, the location of the complex is in the.
Aperture Science exists in the same universe as the, although connections between the two franchises are limited to references.Information about the company, developed by Valve for creating the setting of the game, is revealed during the game and via the real-world promotional website. According to the Aperture Science website, founded the company in 1943 for the sole purpose of making for the U.S. However, after becoming mentally unstable from 'moon rock poisoning' in 1978, Johnson created a three-tier plan to make his organization successful. The first two tiers, the (a maneuver designed to ensure choking) and the (a program to give the wishes of terminally ill children to adults in need of dreams), were commercial failures and led to an investigation of the company by the. However, when the investigative committee heard of the success of the third tier—a person-sized, ad-hoc quantum tunnel through physical space, with a possible application as a shower curtain—it recessed permanently and gave Aperture Science an open-ended contract to continue its research.
The development of GLaDOS, an artificially intelligent research assistant and disk-operating system, began in 1986 in response to 's work on similar portal technology. A presentation seen during gameplay reveals that GLaDOS was also included in a proposed bid for de-icing fuel lines, incorporated as a fully functional disk-operation system that is arguably alive, unlike Black Mesa's proposal, which inhibits ice, nothing more.
Roughly thirteen years later, work on GLaDOS was completed and the untested AI was activated during the company's first ever in May 2000. Immediately after activation, the facility was flooded with deadly neurotoxin by the AI. Events of the first game occur shortly thereafter, presumably leaving the facility forgotten by the outside world due to apocalyptic happenings. Wolpaw, in describing the ending of Portal 2, affirmed that the invasion, chronologically taking place after Half-Life and before, had occurred before Portal 2 's events.The areas of the Enrichment Center that Chell explores suggest that it is part of a massive research installation. At the time of events depicted in Portal, the facility seems to be long-deserted, although most of its equipment remains operational without human control. During its development, featured a chapter set on Aperture Science's ship Borealis, but this was abandoned and removed before release.
Plot Portal 's plot is revealed to the player via audio messages or 'announcements' from and visual elements inside rooms found in later levels. According to The Final Hours of Portal 2, the year is established to be 'somewhere in 2010'—twelve years after Aperture Science's abandonment.The game begins with Chell waking up from a stasis bed and hearing instructions and warnings from, an, about the upcoming test experience. Chell then enters into distinct test chambers that introduce players to the game's mechanics, sequentially. GLaDOS's announcements serve as instructions to Chell and help the player progress through the game, but also develops the atmosphere and characterizes the AI as a person. Chell is promised and as her reward if she manages to complete all the test chambers.Chell proceeds through the empty Enrichment Center, with GLaDOS as her only interaction. As the player nears completion, GLaDOS's motives turn more sinister than her helpful demeanor suggests; although she is designed to appear helpful and encouraging, GLaDOS's actions and speech suggest insincerity and callous disregard for the safety and well-being of the test subjects. The test chambers become increasingly dangerous as Chell proceeds, and GLaDOS even directs Chell through a live-fire course designed for military androids as a result of 'mandatory scheduled maintenance' in the regular test chamber, as well as having some test chambers flooded with a bio-hazardous liquid.
In another chamber, GLaDOS boasts about the fidelity and importance of the Weighted Companion Cube, a waist-high crate with a single large pink heart centered on each face, for helping Chell to complete the chamber. However, GLaDOS then declares that it 'unfortunately must be ' in an 'emergency intelligence ' before Chell can continue. Some of the later chambers include automated turrets with childlike voices (also voiced by McLain) that fire at Chell, only to sympathize with her after being destroyed or disabled, such as 'I don't blame you' and 'No hard feelings'.After Chell completes the final test chamber, GLaDOS congratulates her and prepares her 'victory candescence', maneuvering Chell into an incinerator in an attempt to kill her. As GLaDOS assures her that 'all Aperture technologies remain safely operational up to 4,000 degrees (3,727 °C, or 6,740 °F)', Chell escapes with the use of the portal gun and makes her way through the maintenance areas within the Enrichment Center. GLaDOS becomes panicked and insists that she was only pretending to kill Chell, as part of testing.
GLaDOS then asks Chell to assume the 'party escort submission position', lying face-first on the ground, so that a 'party associate' can take her to her reward, but Chell continues anyway. Throughout this section, GLaDOS still sends messages to Chell and it becomes clear that she became corrupt and had killed everyone else in the center, which is also revealed in a later comic. Chell makes her way through the maintenance areas and empty office spaces behind the chambers, sometimes following graffiti messages which point in the right direction. These backstage areas, which are in an extremely dilapidated state, stand in stark contrast to the pristine test chambers.
The graffiti includes statements such as 'the cake is a lie', and of 's poem 'The Chariot', 's 'The Reaper and the Flowers', and 's 'No Coward Soul Is Mine', referring to and mourning the death of the Companion Cube.GLaDOS attempts to dissuade Chell with threats of physical harm and misleading statements claiming that she is going the wrong way as Chell makes her way deeper into the maintenance areas. Eventually, Chell reaches a large chamber where GLaDOS's hardware hangs overhead.
GLaDOS continues to plead with and threaten Chell, but during the exchange, a sphere falls off of GLaDOS and Chell drops it in an incinerator. GLaDOS reveals that Chell has just destroyed the morality core or her conscience, one of the multiple 'personality cores' which the Aperture Science employees allegedly installed after GLaDOS flooded the enrichment center with a deadly neurotoxin gas, and goes on to state that now there is nothing to prevent her from doing so once again. A six-minute countdown starts as Chell dislodges and incinerates more of GLaDOS' personality cores, while GLaDOS attempts to discourage her both verbally, with a series of taunts and increasingly juvenile insults, and physically by firing rockets at her.
After Chell has destroyed the final personality core, a portal malfunction tears the room apart and transports everything to the surface. Chell is then seen lying outside the facility's gates amid the remains of GLaDOS.
One of the final scenes is changed through a patch of the PC version that was made available a few days before Portal 2 's announcement; in this, Chell is dragged away from the scene by an unseen entity speaking in a robotic voice, thanking her for assuming the 'party escort submission position', revealing the entity to be a 'party associate'.The final scene, after a long and speedy zoom through the bowels of the facility, shows a, and the Weighted Companion Cube, surrounded by a mix of shelves containing dozens of apparently inactive personality cores. One by one a number of the cores begin to light up, before a robotic arm descends and extinguishes the candle on the cake, causing the room to blackout. As the credits roll, GLaDOS delivers a concluding report: the song ', which declares the experiment to be a huge success, as well as serving to indicate to the player that GLaDOS is still alive, that her 'happy' core was not disabled.Development Concept Portal is Valve's to the freeware game, the 2005 independent game released by students of the; the original Narbacular Drop team was subsequently hired by Valve.
Valve became interested in Narbacular Drop after seeing the game at DigiPen's annual career fair; Robin Walker, one of Valve's developers, saw the game at the fair and later contacted the team providing them with advice and offering to show their game at Valve's offices. After their presentation, Valve's president quickly offered the entire team jobs at Valve to develop the game further.
Newell later commented that he was impressed with the DigiPen team as 'they had actually carried the concept through', already having included the interaction between portals and physics, completing most of the work that Valve would have had to commit on their own. Certain elements have been retained from Narbacular Drop, such as the system of identifying the two unique portal endpoints with the colors orange and blue. A key difference in the signature portal mechanic between the two games however is that Portal 's portal gun cannot create a portal through an existing portal unlike in Narbacular Drop. The game's original setting, of a princess trying to escape a dungeon, was dropped in favor of the Aperture Science approach. Portal took approximately two years and four months to complete after the DigiPen team was brought into Valve, and no more than ten people were involved with its development. Portal writer, who, along with fellow writer, was hired by Valve for the game, claimed that 'Without the constraints, Portal would not be as good a game'.For the first year of development the team focused mostly on the gameplay without any narrative structure.
Playtesters found the game to be fun but asked about what these test chambers were leading towards. This prompted the team to come up with a narrative for Portal. The Portal team worked with Half-Life series writer on fitting the game into the series' plot.
This was done, in part, due to the limited art capabilities of the small team; instead of creating new assets for Portal, they decided to tie the game to an existing franchise— Half-Life—to allow them to reuse the Half-Life 2 art assets. Wolpaw and Faliszek were put to work on the dialogue for Portal. The concept of a computer AI guiding the player through experimental facilities to test the portal gun was arrived at early in the writing process. They drafted early lines for the yet-named 'polite' AI with humorous situations, such as requesting the player's character to 'assume the party escort submission position', and found this style of approach to be well-suited to the game they wanted to create, ultimately leading to the creation of the GLaDOS character. GLaDOS was central to the plot, as Wolpaw notes 'We designed the game to have a very clear beginning, middle, and end, and we wanted GLaDOS to go through a personality shift at each of these points.' Wolpaw further describes the idea of using cake as the reward came about as 'at the beginning of the Portal development process, we sat down as a group to decide what philosopher or school of philosophy our game would be based on. That was followed by about 15 minutes of silence and then someone mentioned that a lot of people like cake.'
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The cake element along with additional messages given to the player in the behind-the-scenes areas were written and drawn. See also: ReceptionAggregate scoreAggregatorScore90/100Review scoresPublicationScoreA9/109.0/104.5/5.08.2/10Portal received critical acclaim, often earning more praise than either Half-Life 2: Episode Two or Team Fortress 2, two titles also included in The Orange Box. It was praised for its unique gameplay and, humor. Cited that 'the way the game progresses from being a simple set of perfunctory tasks to a full-on part of the Half-Life story is absolute genius', while noted, 'What Portal lacks in length, it more than makes up for in exhilaration.' The game was criticized for sparse environments, and both criticized and praised for its short length. Aggregate reviews for the stand-alone PC version of Portal gave the game a 90/100 through 28 reviews on.
In 2011, Valve stated that Portal had sold more than four million copies through the retail versions, including the standalone game and The Orange Box, and from the Xbox Live Arcade version.The game generated a fan following for the Weighted Companion Cube —even though the cube itself does not talk or act in the game. Fans have created and versions of the cube and the various turrets, as well as PC and models of the Portal cake and portal gun. Jeep Barnett, a programmer for Portal, noted that players have told Valve that they had found it more emotional to incinerate the Weighted Companion Cube than to harm one of the 'Little Sisters' from. Both GLaDOS and the Weighted Companion Cube were nominated for the Best New Character Award on G4, with GLaDOS winning the award for 'having lines that will be quoted by gamers for years to come.' Of gave the game the only entirely positive review in the show's history, calling it 'the most fun you'll have with your PC until they invent a force-feedback codpiece'. Croshaw went on to say: 'I went in expecting a slew of interesting portal-based puzzles and that's exactly what I got, but what I wasn't expecting was some of the funniest pitch black humor I've ever heard in a game'. He states that, while the game was short, the two- to three-hour length of the game was perfect as the game did not outstay its welcome, and called the ending 'balls-tighteningly fantastic', while praising the game as 'absolutely sublime from start to finish' (adding that he would jam forks in his eyes if he ever praised a game so highly ever again).Writing for GameSetWatch in 2009, columnist Daniel Johnson pointed out similarities between Portal and 's essay on, which equates one's persona to the front and back stage areas of a theater.
The game was also made part of the required course material among other classical and contemporary works, including Goffman's work, for a freshman course 'devoted to engaging students with fundamental questions of humanity from multiple perspectives and fostering a sense of community' for in 2010. Portal has also been cited as a strong example of that can be adapted for more academic learning situations, as the player, through careful design of levels by Valve, is first hand-held in solving simple puzzles with many hints at the correct solution, but this support is slowly removed as the player progresses in the game, and completely removed when the player reaches the second half of the game. 's Hamish Todd considered Portal as an exemplary means of game design by demonstrating a series of chambers after the player has obtained the portal gun that gently introduce the concept of flinging without any explicit instructions. Portal was exhibited at the Smithsonian Art Exhibition in America from February 14 through September 30, 2012. Portal won the 'Action' section for the platform 'Modern Windows'.
The popularity of the Weighted Companion Cube led Valve to create merchandise based on it, includingThe popularity of the game and of its characters led Valve to develop merchandise for Portal made available through its online physical merchandise store. Some of the more popular items were the Weighted Companion Cube plush toys.
When first released, both were sold out in under 24 hours. Other products available through the Valve store include T-shirts and Aperture Science coffee mugs and parking stickers, and merchandise relating to the phrase the cake is a lie, which has become an. Wolpaw noted they did not expect certain elements of the game to be as popular as they were, while other elements they had expected to become fads were ignored, such as a giant hoop that rolls on-screen during the final scene of the game that the team had named Hoopy.A community has developed around Portal, with users creating their own test chambers and other in-game modifications. The group 'We Create Stuff' created an version of Portal, titled Portal: The Flash Version, just prior to release of The Orange Box. This flash version was well received by the community and the group have since converted it to a map pack for the published game. Another mod, Portal: Prelude, is an unofficial prequel developed by an independent team of three that focuses on the pre-GLaDOS era of Aperture Science, and contains nineteen additional 'crafty and challenging' test chambers. An version of Portal was created by Joe Larson.
An unofficial port of Portal to the using the game engine was created but only consisted of a single room from the game. Is a fan-made four-player coop mashup of the original and Portal.Swift stated that future Portal developments would depend on the community's reactions, saying, 'We're still playing it by ear at this point, figuring out if we want to do multiplayer next, or Portal 2, or release map packs.'
Some rumors regarding a sequel arose due to casting calls for voice actors. On March 10, 2010, Portal 2 was officially announced for a release late in that year; the announcement was preceded by an based on unexpected patches made to Portal that contained cryptic messages in relation to Portal 2 's announcement, including an update to the game, creating a different ending for the fate of Chell. The original game left her in a deserted car park after destroying GLaDOS, but the update involved Chell being dragged back into the facility by a 'Party Escort Bot'.
Though Portal 2 was originally announced for a Q4 2010 release, the game was released on April 19, 2011.