Valve Opens The Portal

Via Joystiq, an IGN story giving some background on the Portal project, the interesting FPS/Puzzler that Valve has planned to go out with Half-Life 2: Episode 2. The article interviews the team behind the technology, and gives some insight on what it must be like to have the best senior year of college ever: "Along with the other members of the Portal team, we were students at DigiPen Institute of Technology located in Redmond, WA, next to the Nintendo of America campus. During our senior year, the seven of us created a game called Narbacular Drop, which was an early test of our ideas about portal-based gameplay. Every year, DigiPen puts on an expo for graduating seniors to show their game projects to prospective employers. A couple of Valve people attended, and they asked us to come to the Valve offices and show it to Gabe Newell. Gabe watched our demo and basically hired us on the spot. It was kind of shocking. We stood around in the parking lot afterwards gibbering to ourselves for about 20 minutes."

You sir know nothing

[Brownstar]

Having had 3 Senior years at the same college. I can say by far my last one was the best.

With only 1 four credit class, that I had previously taken but initialy failed. I had a blast.

I didn't even mind it too much when one of my friends informed a Freshman I was chatting up that when she started middle school, I had been starting college...

Wow!

[Threni]

Teleport! I wish I'd thought of that! Where do these guys get their original ideas from?

Oh well - back to my 1950s science fiction books....

Re:The aliens are coming...

[Anonymous Coward]

Pay no mind of the hands on either side that hold the portal wide! This way to the egress!

Was that a Goatse joke?