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Portal 2 Getting Map Editor

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. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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