January Contest Voting

[Riven]

[Saline]

The tension between LoveGLaDOS and Rainbow Palace is very well deserved; both are clever, creative, and lengthy enough to give you the old "wow" feeling when you finally solve a puzzle, yet still have to steel yourself for the next one coming up.

I voted for LoveGLaDOS mainly due to its replayability. While Rainbow Palace had very unique puzzles (that I thought might be a bit more creative), LoveGLaDOS felt a little more like "natural" portal in there are a dozen ways to get through each part of the level, some horribly clever, others rather generic. For those who are curious as to what I mean, try the portal challenge--I doubt most can make it through in under 25 portals. There's a youtube video of someone beating it with six portals.

Both were absolute uber maps, and I almost wish they were released during separate months so both could get my vote. Exquisite attention to detail was paid, both felt like the original portals, and neither was cake (!) to solve. The LoveGLaDOS puzzles took a little more effort, I felt (it took me far longer to solve) and it replays much better.

[NykO18]

Don't read this if you have not yet played on those maps.

LoveGlaDOS - 8/10
- Elevator sound blocked at start
- Graphics OK (power lines two times too large)
- Destroyed the two cubes at once, and only one was given back
- Difficulty OK, not too difficult, not too easy
- Great variety of puzzles
- Good duration

Tunneling Chamber - 6/10
- Graphics OK
- I really hate tunneling
- A bit short
- Lack of explainations

Nadez Portal - 4/10
- Poor visual quality
- Textures not properly lined up
- No ambient sounds
- Big problems of brushworking
- Buttons not activated by the player
- Then the map crashed my game
- No power lines to indicate what activates what
- Too small, impossible to move with the cube
- Puzzles WAY too easy
- Endgame without even entering the elevator..?

Wrips Challenge - 3/10
- Poor lighting quality
- Poor texturing quality
- Possible to pickup the portalgun without walking on the grate
- Puzzles WAY too easy
- Second part really UGLY
- Turrets didn't fire on the third part
- Useless "secret" rooms
- Boring third part
- The end is poor..

Rainbow Palace - 7/10
- GREAT use of the no-portalgun situation
- Great visual quality
- The fan part was not as enjoyable (not well placed)
- Didn't understood the last part (with the goo gap)
- Good duration

Simple Chamber - 5/10
- Great visual quality
- A bit frustrating
- WAY too short
- Don't know what to say..

A Pl3sant Debut - ?/10
- Stuck at start, I think the room is supposed to go down, but nothing happens, everything remains silent
- Nocliped to the rest of the room, but I kept getting stucked everywhere..
- I don't seem to understand at all what I'm supposed to do

Aldéz's Test - ?/10
- Caould't launch it

[msleeper]

[Ralen]

A comment about Wrips map that hasn't been said yet:
In the room immediately below where you get the portal gun, if you try to fire a portal onto the ceiling, it consistently crashes the game.

[rellikpd]

[iamafractal]

OK. I've tried all the maps.

The two best maps were Loveglados and Rainbow Palace, imho.

I'm not sure why loveglados was in this contest as it had been posted to twp a while ago.

My only problem with loveglados was it was too staid.

I really enjoyed the puzzles in Rainbow Palace. I especially liked the adrenaline rush from the ambush. Therefore, I have placed my vote for Rainbow Palace.

[taco]

[msleeper]

[youme]

I've downloaded all the maps and am about to test them now, I expect great things!

[Tigger]

Neither Simple Chamber nor Rainbow Palace run when I click on them in the bonus maps section. I unzipped both of them into the portal\portal\maps folder. No error, just nothing happens. Suggestions?

[rellikpd]

[Tigger]

[Duffedwaffe]

EDIT:

[Adair]