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Portal 2 Getting Map Editor

Posted by Soulskill on from the roll-your-own dept.

Valve Software is working on a second helping of downloadable content for Portal 2, and they've revealed that it will include an in-game map editor. It's planned for early next year, and it will allow players to create both single-player and co-op maps. The maps can be shared with others, and there will be a system to view and vote on other people's maps. In other Portal-related news, a reader sent in a video of his efforts to get GLaDOS running on his home computer. He writes, "I used Microsoft's Kinect technology as the platform and sound files from my copy of Portal 2 to create my own GLaDOS. My plan is to make the source code (but not the audio files) open source once it gets farther along. The technology has already been useful to my parents in helping them more easily navigate a computer."

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  1. For a second I thought that said Postal 2 by elrous0 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Then I wondered why this was news in 2011. Then I wondered "Whatever happened to Postal 3, anyway?". Then I got kind of sleepy. Then back to wondering about Postal 3.

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  2. Klein bottle by sethstorm · · Score: 3, Funny

    Should the map editor reach the PC, it would only be fitting to make such a thing. Use the portals to make up for the collisions.

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    1. Re:Klein bottle by AndrewNeo · · Score: 2

      There already is a map editor, it's called Hammer. The title is misleading, it should read Portal 2 getting In-Game Map Editor.

  3. How would GLaDOS help? by Qzukk · · Score: 2

    This next dialog will ask you if you would like to release deadly neurotoxins. 38.2% of all test subjects clicked Yes.

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    1. Re:How would GLaDOS help? by elrous0 · · Score: 3, Funny

      38.2% of all test subjects clicked Yes

      Coincidentally, 98.6% of these were subjects who had been testing for more than 40 days in a row. 40...that's also the number of pounds I would say you've put on since you first came here.

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  4. Another map editor. by Aladrin · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Another map editor, you mean. It's already GOT one. It's just hard to use and not built into the game.

    This one looks like a dumbed down version of it that anyone should be able to use. (Honestly, the real one needed dumbing down, but this looks a bit much.)

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    1. Re:Another map editor. by flimflammer · · Score: 2

      Hammer itself isn't hard to use. The problem is a lot of stuff in Hammer didn't mesh well with Portal (and by proxy Portal 2). It's just overly complicated than it needs to be, which is why I assume they're coming out with a more targeted editor.