ASCIIpOrtal Has Been Released

maclizard writes "After much waiting, ASCIIpOrtal has now been released. Joe Larson, the man behind the game, has made sure to provide numerous mirrors so as to avoid the Slashdot effect that killed his site several months ago. An interview with Larson (part two here) is available as well."

Comments

Re:Wait.

[einstein4pres]

ASCIIpOrtal is a 2D platformer that has a portal gun. It shares many of the same elements as the original game, plus a few others.

Here, have a demo:
http://www.offworld.com/2009/07/day-made-mind-blown-its-portal.html

Slashdotted..

[eiMichael]

Addition Pylons (I mean mirrors) Required.

Download Links

[fering]

Download Links: Hosting offsite for the first week. Just link to this page for the most up to date links.
Download Windows binaries: WHFF Solidfiles Mediafire LGShort Sharebee
Download Mac binaries (compiled by FutureStack on RGRD): WHFF Solidfiles Mediafire LGShort Sharebee
Download Linux-32bit binaries: Contact me to volunteer if you get it to work. Download Linux-64bit binaries (compiled by Kaw on RGRD): WHFF Solidfiles Mediafire

here's a great use for BitTorrent

[TrippTDF]

Why not just put a link to a torrent file right in the article, and save everyone some headaches? I always thought that was the real potential for BitTorrent- share large amounts of data without killing anyone's servers.

Re:How do you play this?

[argent]

You don't need the portal for the first level at all... it's a "here's how you move and stuff" level.

Re:Well, ain't that something.

[Zerth]

Win
http://willhostforfood.com/access.php?fileid=85819
http://solidfiles.com/d/8fC8
http://www.mediafire.com/file/zkiqmzcode4/asciiportal-1.0-win32.zip

Mac
http://willhostforfood.com/access.php?fileid=85820
http://solidfiles.com/d/XGEg
http://www.mediafire.com/file/yhaywt2zjzi/asciiportal-1.0-osx-univ.zip

64 bit Linux
http://willhostforfood.com/access.php?fileid=85821
http://solidfiles.com/d/9jxO
http://www.mediafire.com/file/yzdneznfujo/asciiportal-1.0-linux-x64.tar.gz

Re:Wait.

[Khyber]

No, the original game is Nabacular Drop.

Re:Maybe

[spydabyte]

Same thing with your post:

Hosting offsite for the first week. Just link to this page for the most up to date links.

Note: The LGShort and Sharebee hosts were commented out in the page's html.

Download Windows binaries: WHFF Solidfiles Mediafire LGShort Sharebee

Download Mac binaries (by FutureStack on RGRD): WHFF Solidfiles Mediafire LGShort Sharebee

Download Linux-32bit binaries (by Brandon): WHFF Solidfiles mediafire

Download Linux-64bit binaries (by Kaw on RGRD): WHFF Solidfiles Mediafire LGShort Sharebee

Mirrors

[maclizard]

http://www.lgshort.com/asciiportal-1.0-win32.zip http://www.lgshort.com/asciiportal-1.0-osx-univ.zip http://www.lgshort.com/asciiportal-linux32.tar.gz http://www.lgshort.com/asciiportal-1.0-linux-x64.tar.gz

Re:Well, ain't that something.

[Zontar The Mindless]

32 bit Linux

http://willhostforfood.com/users/C/cymon/asciiportal-linux32.tar.gz
http://solidfiles.com/d/YlA4
http://www.mediafire.com/?zj0ywjmgylm

See also:

[zugzwanged]

No one seems to have mentioned Jacob's Matrix http://www.zincland.com/7drl/jacob/, which is another excellent textual take on the portal idea.

Re:legality?

[VGPowerlord]

I don't know about Valve, but considering that an mp3 of an instrumental version of Europe's The Final Countdown is sitting in the maps directory (final.mp3), the RIAA could definitely sue them...