Portal Archives - Unwinnable https://unwinnable.com/tag/portal/ Stories about Culture Thu, 14 Mar 2024 02:53:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://unwinnable.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-icon-1-32x32.jpg Portal Archives - Unwinnable https://unwinnable.com/tag/portal/ 32 32 Weaving the Bountiful Threads of Being https://unwinnable.com/2024/03/14/weaving-the-bountiful-threads-of-being/ Thu, 14 Mar 2024 04:03:54 +0000 https://unwinnable.com/?p=94989 At what point does a bucket of bolts begin being a person? Does it ever?

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]]> Firewatch, Portal And The Problem With Videogame Movies https://unwinnable.com/2016/10/03/firewatch-portal-and-the-problem-with-video-game-movies/ Mon, 03 Oct 2016 16:27:24 +0000 https://unwinnable.com/?p=59930 There will always be problems when translating a story from an interactive medium to a non-interactive one.

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]]> Creating a Playground of Wonder https://unwinnable.com/2013/11/12/scale/ Tue, 12 Nov 2013 08:57:58 +0000 https://unwinnable.com/?p=47936 Scale is the freshest take on first-person perspective games I’ve seen since the original Portal. It is being developed by Steve Swink, who describes himself as a game designer first and foremost, but who also teaches game and level design, including master classes at NYU, and has published a book titled Game Feel: A Game Designer’s Guide to Virtual Sensation. Scale is a puzzle game that allows players to scale objects up or down within the constraints of conservation of mass. If a puzzle’s solution requires walking through a hole in the wall and the hole is too small, for

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