In the following rooms, the player is able to control the position of the blue portal only, the orange one being set down immovably by the designers, a limitation that is used to make your education smoother. In this article I’ll be looking closely at the series of levels that slowly build up the fling, and after that I’ll look at the deeper strategic variations on it that are presented. The sequences in the game that teach you the fling saw more design iteration than any other part of the game, so you can bet that they’ll be streamlined and full of clever psychology. Good thing then that Valve’s level designers are expert teachers, who know exactly how to craft around player’s thought processes. This makes it cool to plan around, but difficult to teach. So the fling move is a quite sophisticated idea it’s also rich in uses, and involves you moving in a swift, continuous curve - so it’s very fun.Ī fling is also an extremely disorienting experience. On the surface, Portal is a game about changing your position in space, but the fling move is about changing your direction and repurposing gravity as a means of increasing your elevation. It is a beautiful and interesting possibility within the game engine, and the level design is intelligently constructed to make it accessible. This diagram shows a move called the “fling”, where you turn a fall into a leap forward using portals. gif images on the same page, and might be tough to load on slower connections. Read on for an analysis of Portal's level design, and some lessons about what learning from it can do to improve game design.īE WARNED: This article uses multiple animated. They are also designed very perceptively, and we can learn a lot from looking at this perceptiveness. They’re surprising, focused, and concise.
Portal has the best-designed first-person puzzles I've ever seen.
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