Valve Opens The Portal 61
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."
Re:Played Narbacular drop. (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Wow! (Score:2, Informative)
Re:How do I own a copy? (Score:3, Informative)
Having said all that, you are not obligated to buy anything by setting up a Steam account. I've had a Steam account for over 4 years (early beta tester was not fun
Re:How do I own a copy? (Score:2, Informative)
Yes, yes you can. This "episodic content" is essentially in the form of (small) self-contained games which are published in a serialized manner, to be bought either through stores or through Valve's downloading service.
Sort of like a series of novels. You don't actually have to buy the former novels to read the new ones, though you might miss out on something if you do. Expansion packs are a bit like extra chapters, you can't read them without the book which they belong to (ok, you technically could in that case, but you shouldn't).
Re:How do I own a copy? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Wow! (Score:2, Informative)
YouTube Vid (Score:3, Informative)