At PAX East last Saturday, I got a chance to awkwardly speak to Portal 2's project lead, Joshua Weier. Despite my woeful incoherence, I learned a few interesting tidbits about the game's inception, including that Valve isn't ready to divulge the nature of a new puzzle mechanic which it scrapped early on in developme♌nt.

In an earlier this month, Valve writer Erik Wolpaw explained, "... a brief idea we had was having a different puzzle mechanic, with each Por💟tal game introducing a new way of solving puzzles with Aperture Science in 🦋the background, this big funhouse where every game would get a new thing. We quickly discovered through playtesting that people liked it, but just preferred the portal gun."

The new mechanic was also brought up byVal🅰velast year - I asked Weier if he could🌠 elaborate on it, but apparently it's not fully in the bin.

"We're not real🧔ly talking about that one too much," said Weier. "I th🐎ink we're still kicking that around - it's kind of interesting. I think that kind of came from us trying to make Portal 2 a surprise. But the more we started to dig into the mechanics, the more we realized there was tons more for us to do."

Digging into a different sensitive topic, I also asked Weier if he could comment on the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询: recently-leaked Portal 2 Ach♏ievement list, and whether or not fan speculation regarding a possible Half-Life 2: Episode 3 te⭕ase had any weight. Weier, of course, couldn't say anything definitive about that either꧃:

"Yeah, the Achievements always come out a little earlier than we want, 𝓡but it was fun to watch people speculate and see what they were gonna get. I think when it hits on April 19th it'll be fun to see people a🍌ctually experience that."

EXPERIENCE WHAT?! Yeah, I know - April 19th. Anyway, you can read the rest of my impressions and Weier's comments in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码🥂历史查询: the rivulet-of-consciousness preview I banged out from the floor of the press room. I'm sure obsessively-informed fans already knew all of it months ago, but given that I still have a bruise on my leg from the foot of a furiously rushed videographer, I'm making it important. It's a dangerous job (not really).

Mar 14, 2011