I am currently writing a fanfiction novelization of the story, so I won't be able to summarize it here, but the game's narrative took quite a few turns and twists, spanning portal 1 and 2 eras, and was somewhat overly ambitious. In spite of these lighthearted, albeit stressful, times- It's no secret that 2020 was not a good year for anybody, overall. 2020 was when the version I call 'PFT: Classic' came into being. Development was in full swing- We had an entire playtesting system set up to automatically record tests, automated scripts to build new test versions, and plentiful cave johnson jokes for my 'Test Subjects' to toss around. 'What if I make this a full-blown mod? with a story and everything.' and so, Portal: Forever Testing was born.Ģ020: The year the world almost ended weeklyĭuring the 2020 year, I brought on a handful of several playtesters and a couple of voice actors with the intent to tell a brand new story within the Portal multi/universe, focusing on a Core named David and a part-time scientist, part-time test subject, named Kate. So, I replaced the wireless signal boxes (pictured above) with standard lasers in further iterations- and it was then that an idea struck: People were calling it 'the door mechanic thing' because all they could tell was that doors opened randomly when they placed portals. among other experiments, I began to create a map-pack that would tell the story of how the thermal discouragement beams were invented by aperture, starting in a sealed-off obscure lab in the facility, accessed through a hole in the wall of a stuck elevator.Įventually, after publishing that first map in the workshop, people began to complain slightly- due to, at the time, my poor ability to communicate the game mechanic as, essentially, an invisible laser. While I was struggling between an ill-planned indie game development career's apparent failure and general frustration with my artistic skillset, I began to experiment with something I had abandoned for quite a while: Portal 2 mod-making. In the beginning, this mod started in 2019 as a small map-pack on the steam workshop called 'lost between floors' (a name I have re-used but I'll get to that later.)

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