jaelte: Wow. Very impressive.

jdodson: I agree, this was a fun video!

jaelte: That's impressive. Wow.

jdodson: Yep.

Tungsten: One of my favorites. If you look back in the game discussions there's one where we were sharing our levels. We should pick that up again.

jdodson: I saw a Deer today!

jdodson: Yeah I was thinking about doing another level too... Maybe we should do a level jam or something?

Tungsten: Lets do it. Set a deadline and see what we can come up with by then?

jdodson: Cool. Let's do it a bit after BL2 launch. I know I'll be playing the hell out of that for a few days.

BR: I'd would participate if I could, but I don't own Portal 2. I've entered a bunch of giveaways on steam gifts so I could play it. I've played some of the coop at my friends house and had a great time. I just want to be able to play the single player.

Tungsten: It probably had themost polished single player experience in recent memory. If only it was twice as long and posed more of a challenge to an experienced player.

jdodson: For my taste it seemed long enough. I don't know why, but I seem to take way longer playing games than most do. No idea why that is.

Played co-op w my friend on the ps3 and that was fun. Looking forward to more time to finish that!

BR: portal 2 is $20 on Steam right now it it often drops to $5-$7.

Adym: I think the odds would be pretty good actually.

jdodson: Let you know how it turns out :)

WhiteboySlim: Tell her it's for science.

jdodson: Hahaha I will.

Tungsten: Yea, I have to go back to my levels and remove all the work arounds. I'll check yours out, let you know out I can break it. :)

jdodson: Awesome, thanks for sharing these! Flying is easy is fun, had me guessing a few times but I completed it.

Let you know about the dead end map! Boy oh boy do I NEED A VACATION!

jdodson: Just tried the the "Dead End" map and I go as far as the moving blue field and couldn't figure out what to do. Ill hit it up again and its possible I may get the "ah ha" moment to complete it.

Both are fun maps, thanks.

Adym: Even though I've never played Portal 2 (or the first), I kinda want this editor!

jdodson: It's really fun. And now only $6 on Steam! But it will be on sale again and it's now just $20 normally anyway.

jdodson: It was fun. Took me a bit to figure out a few steps, but I finished it.

Tungsten: I miss the claustrophobic levels of the first Portal. I think my next one will be more like that.

vdogmr25: Just went through it. It was a fun level. I love fling/gravity puzzles. It took me a bit to realize the water and repellant gel were more aesthetic than part of the solution. I sat there briefly wondering how I got through the level without using the repellant gel and what it was supposed to be used for.

Tungsten: Hmmm... it should have been used. How did you get over the cap at the end?

Oh, I can think of how. I'll fix that... :)

Tungsten: Fixed it.

Tungsten: The editor is amazing. Great product. It was actually kind of sad: I could finally make any level I could dream up, but I realized I'm very bad at dreaming them. All my attempts turned out boring and straight forward. Playing some of the other community maps, you can see that some people are very good at it.

jdodson: I was just tinkering around with what I could do and I made something I kind of thought was fun. I kept tinkering and it was OK.

Working on another one now that is just tinkering and a bit more grand. Somehow I like big maps.

jdodson: One gripe with the tool this far. I made a huge epic map. 10-20% of the way building it, Portal 2 crashes. Ok, load it back edit the map.... Crash. Again... Crash.

Bummer it was a cool start to a fun map. *sigh*

Tungsten: Just put mine up...

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=71723761

vdogmr25: I found it beatable without even having to go underground. There's a way to take the laser reflection cube with you into the next room and you can use it to activate the switch. Thought I'd let you know. Other than that, it was pretty good. It required a little head scratching, but was pretty quick to get through.

jdodson: How do you take the redirection cube to the next room? Isn't it fizzled out?

I'll check it tonight and fix :)

vdogmr25: In the first room there's the ledge with non-portal-able surfaces that leads into the next room. You can get up there by portaling onto the small box-like protrusion on the opposite wall by the entrance, putting a portal on the ground next to the non-portal-able ledge, putting the other portal on the ground in front of you, and jumping off. If you take the redirect cube with you, you can access the exit. I hope I explained well enough. I can screen shot it out if you would like me to.

jdodson: Nope I get it now. Ill remove the ledge or make it non-portalable.

Thanks!

jdodson: OK I believe I fixed that bug and a possible other one, thanks for the heads up!

jdodson: Its on my list of things to do this weekend. Check out a few maps and see about making a simple one.

Tungsten: I've had to reinstall portal (I had to reformat a couple months ago) so that has put a serious delay into my puzzle creating plans.

WhiteboySlim: I still haven't managed to play any multiplayer, so I'll probably go through those before I attempt making my own. Looks like fun though! I can't wait to see some of the community made maps. :)

jdodson: I just made my first, check it out:

http://cheerfulghost.com/jdodson/posts/287

Tungsten: @WhiteboySlim: I still haven't done the multi-player either. If you ever need someone to conquer them with, hit me up.

WhiteboySlim: @Tungsten: Sounds like fun! What evenings are you usually available to play?

Tungsten: Well, I'm a teacher, so Friday/Saturday are the best right now, but Summer is coming and everything really opens up.

jdodson: Thats awesome!

Tungsten: I thought I already had it...
That's pretty sweet. That Steam Workshop is looking pretty cool right about now. Good job Valve.

jdodson: This looks to be a simplified level editor and rating system for user uploaded levels. So something a bit easier to use and allows uploads for all it seems. The UI does look fairly easy.

Travis: I'm so glad they gave free PC copies to PS3 purchases.

jdodson: I am too. Makes me question the value of other games that don't do it.

jdodson: Updated with the new DLC video. Check above.

Travis: I love Cave Johnson. Actually, I love everything that guy does. Even the Farmers commercials.

jdodson: He is a good character actor. Apparently this was all done before the end of P2?

WhiteboySlim: lol, I just read about this on Joystiq and came on here to share it. You beat me to it!

As for the toy Portal gun: DO WANT.

jdodson: Did you see how much it was?

WhiteboySlim: It didn't say on the Joystiq article, but Kotaku says it's $150. Seems kinda steep for a toy, even for one that does look really, really awesome.

jdodson: Wow. Maybe when I win the lottery then. :)

Tungsten: I tried to get my wife to do this last Christmas. She didn't go for it...

http://uploads.neatorama.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/portal-tree.jpg

jdodson: Sucks because that would have been totally awesome.

WhiteboySlim: I'd seen this before, but it is still very cool. :)

jdodson: It is. I just watched it again and I really liked it. Saw it after I played Portal 1. Still great.

Tungsten: This is the only video game thing I've ever watched with my wife that she actually liked.

jdodson: Oh, I should show this to mine too. Good idea!