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Games Demystified: Portal

Name:	Jeremy Alessi
Date Posted:	Aug 26, 2008
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The new Games Demystified is up on Gamasutra today.

http://www.gamasutra.com

or

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3770/games_demystified_portal.php

I primarily scoped it to the "flinging" technique that was employed in the game along with some pseudo rendering. I wanted to cover the rendering in more depth but that has been reserved for later.

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Michael Perry (Aug 26, 2008 at 16:18 GMT)

Wow....awesome.

I love the demystified articles and demos. This entry is fantastic! Great write up Jeremy
Edited on Aug 26, 2008 16:30 GMT

Joshua Dallman (Aug 26, 2008 at 17:45 GMT)

Awesome! I see where you're going with this now in terms of the theme for the series. Can't wait to see the next one.

Brady (Aug 26, 2008 at 19:41 GMT)

Great article! I'd like to check out the demo, but when I run it, as well as the Super Mario Galaxy demo, it spins out of control and acts like I'm constantly moving my mouse to the left even when I'm not touching the controls.

Jeremy Alessi (Aug 26, 2008 at 21:32 GMT)

Usually that is caused by the calls to the joystick. If you download the Blitz3D demo and load up the source code you can comment out all the calls to "Joy" and see if that helps. Both demos work with mouse and keys as well as an Xbox360 pad. Other joysticks will yield varying results.

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