Comments on: The Cake May Be a Lie, But This Video Exists

By: birthday cake pictures

birthday cake pictures — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 03:39:10 +0000

They wont risk a legal battle even though Valve have been and seem pretty relaxed about anyone doing stuff with their baby. Portal is probably the best puzzle/action game I have ever played and ever will play.

By: ardichoke

ardichoke — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:40:26 +0000

I highly doubt this will ever make it to market. 1) I don't think Apple would approve it for the app store given the tenuous licensing complications it could cause. 2) It's much more likely that whoever made this video did so by simply making a video of gameplay, disabling touchscreen on the iPhone, playing the video and tapping like they were playing. 3) Even if this is real and does come out… I'd say there's maybe a 10% chance the controls wouldn't bite the big one. I know theres a few places in Portal that even using a keyboard and mouse were hard to get past… I don't even want to think how hard they'd be using crappy touchscreen controls

By: Adams Immersive

Adams Immersive — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:12:07 +0000

You didn't? Well, yours was cool too

By: Forest J

Forest J — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:46:16 +0000

I didn't make this

By: Adams Immersive

Adams Immersive — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:39:41 +0000

Real doesn't mean it will be released, I agree. It could just be someone playing in Unity. (Which is fun–I know I do it. My iPhone will have stuff on it I have no intention of selling.)

By: Schnapple

Schnapple — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:36:57 +0000

Portal Prelude was a mod of Portal. You had to have Portal to run it and Valve has always been cool with the mod community for its games (except when the mod does something like make Alyx run around naked or something)

This Portal game for the iPhone is not a mod, it's a new game made using the Unity engine and Valve will not be cool with it. Maybe these guys will strike some deal with Valve to have Valve publish it but just because Valve hasn't squashed Portal Prelude doesn't mean they'll be fine with this.

By: Fazoum Pomplemousse

Fazoum Pomplemousse — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:20:01 +0000

made with Unity!!! awesome!

By: Adams Immersive

Adams Immersive — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:56:38 +0000

I assume it's real. Why not?

I played a Unity demo of this same portal functionality (from the same author, I assume) around 2 years ago, posted to the Unity forums. It wasn't on iPhone and the it was just an experiment with simpler crates, but it worked fine. And Unity has come a LONG way since then.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:52:27 +0000

If it is real, Valve will probably wait until they finish developing it and sue to take it away. Free development.

Or Valve is really cool and the devs release it for free.

By: Marco

Marco — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:37:13 +0000

c mon guys.. As fake as it could be!! Look at the way he
touches the iphone and how it responds!!