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A PORTAL CLONE
PORTED BY .................... SPOT
SUPPLIED BY .................. SPOT
TYPE ......................... GAME
REQUIRES ...................... SDL
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ASCIIpOrtal
By Joe Larson
Sound Design by Steve Fenton.
Inspired by Increpare's Portile game
(http://www.increpare.com/2008/11/portile/) and Super Serif Bros
(http://foon.co.uk/farcade/ssb/) and Valve's Portal.
HOW TO PLAY
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Grab your hand-held portal device and enter the test chambers for a
non-euclidean good time.
ASCIIpOrtal is a text based puzzle game inspired by the popular video game.
In ASCIIpOrtal you overcome challenges by placing portal way-points, joining
two points in the map. If they player or any object passes through one portal
way-point it will seamlessly exit the other. Since both way-points are the
same point on the map the player's view through the portal reflects this and
space warps around you as you pass through the portal.
From the main menu you can choose to 'Begin' from the first map, 'Select
Level' to visit any level you've already beaten, 'Change Map Set' to load a
new set of levels from any map set subdirectory in your ASCIIpOrtal
directory, Read the 'Instructions', view the map set's 'Credits', or 'Quit'
the game.
Within the game you can use the following keys to play:
Left/Right Arrows . Move Left/Right
Up/Down Arrows .... Move Up/Down Ladders
or adjust aim.
Number Pad Keys ... Quick Aim.
Z/0 ............... Fire Blue Portal
X/PERIOD .......... Fire Yellow Portal
SPACE/5 ........... Fire 'Next' Portal
C ................. Clear Portals
ESC/P/F1 .......... Pause Game Menu
F2 ................ Change Portal Render
F3 ................ Set to Default Speed
+ ................. Increse Game Speed
- ................. Decrese Game Speed
R ................. Restart Level
M ................. Restart Level
? ................. This menu
The goal of each level is to make it to one of exits on the level. Exits
appear as an E on a green field.
USING PORTALS
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Portals link 2 places on the map and make them as one place. Remember that
you can aim diagonally to aid portal placement, except when on ladders. While
on ladders your aim remains steady and can only be adjusted using the Number
Pad for quick aim.
When passing through portals if the in direction and out direction are
different then any object passing through the portal will exit it rotated,
preserving momentum. This opens up several techniques:
HOROZONTAL FLING - Fall into a portal placed on the floor from a height and
exit a portal on the wall. You will travel a horizontal distance relative to
how far you fell before gravity will take over.
VERTICAL FLING - Fall into a portal placed on the floor from a height and
exit a portal placed on the floor. You will travel a distance up relative to
how far you fell. It's important to note that the distance you fall up will
be less than the height you fell from, so vertical re-flings will eventually
fall to zero.
OBJECT RELOCATION - Occasionally you will need get objects from where they
are and pushing them either will not work (in the case of a box stuck in the
corner) or is not possible (in the case of boulders). Placing a portal under
or in the path of an object can aid in getting things where you want them.
For any other use of portals experimentation is key.
STATS
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After each level you will be given your stats for that level. They are:
Game beats - How many in game "turns" it took you.
Portals Used - How many portals you opened in the last successful run. Missed
placements that don't open don't count against your score.
Deaths/Restarts - How many times you had to try to get that last successful run.
MAKING YOUR OWN CHALLENGES
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Please see the included MAP_MAKING_TIPS.txt for the how-to on making your own
challenging maps.
COMMAND LINE PROMPTS
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-? This help menu\n" -m [mappackname] load a map pack\n" -d
80x24 character text graphics window (overrides all other options) -r
640x480 Choose 640x480 screen resolution\n" -r 800x600 Choose
800x600 screen resolution\n" -r 1024x768 Choose 1024x768 screen
resolution\n" -f Fullscreen\n" -w Windowed mode\n"
Please visit Cymon's Games and register on the forums
(http://cymonsgames.com/forum).
Any comments or critisism you can either post on the forums or e-mail me
directly at joealarson()gmail.com.
KNOWN ISSUES
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o If a portal is on one side of a wall, and you attempt to place a portal on
the other side of the same wall in the same time you will not be allowed.
This is because both portals, despite not being invisible to each other,
will be trying to occupy the same space. Does not warrant the time to fix it.
THANK YOUS
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Thanks again to Erin Robinson who without which I would not have been as well
known as quickly. It was her tweet that got me on Kotaku, Boing Boing, Wired,
Joystiq, and just about every other games news website.
Thanks to Nicholas McGuire, Mads Lund, arminwagner, Sparky, and i300 for
designing levels during the beta that were used in the initial public
release. Thank you to everyone else who helped with the beta testing.
Releases:
1.2a (Nov 18 2009)
o WADS keys added.
o Music files changed to OGG.
o Menu item for chaning mapset disabled.
o 5th default ambient music added.
o Numberpad input is fixed.
o Objects in portals when they collapse are more properly delt with.
1.2 (Nov 14 2009)
o Controls finally fixed to react instantly. For real this time.
o Original levels reduced from 50 to 25. Extra levels moved to their own pack.
o 4 default musics available for custom map makers.
o Visual effect added when portals change.
o "Next" for portal gun incriments when portal is created.
o Key to turn off all portals ('C') added.
o Game speed is now variable.
o Code hopefully compiles nativly for dingoo and GP2X devices.
o There is a known issue involving mouse movement being caught as input.
1.1 (Oct 21 2009) - Bug fix release:
o Physics bugs concerning boulder movements have been corrected.
o Player will pass through portals determined by aiming direction.
o The keyboard delay pause has been considerably scaled back. (You still may
need to turn before moving, so there may be a pause there.)
o Some levels have been adjusted slightly.
o Comes with all known extra levels and new map packs.
o Player will now "catch" ladders mid fling.
o Level stats no longer try to keep track of time.
o You can now adjust your aim if at the top or bottom of a ladder.
o Portals will no longer count doors as valid walls when calculating normals.
o Portals will no longer open up straight to a chain link wall.
1.0 (Sept 16 2009) - First public release.
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