Why are you even doing this? Portal on the iPhone sounds cool, but I'd much rather have an official port of the game, or a new one made by Valve, than an unofficial one. This thread was made like a week ago and the only information we have is that it uses duel-stick controls. That's not a great sign.
Call the game "Teleport". Make the portals Green and Red Make the character a dude. There goes all copyrights.
hhaha maybe not the banana part, but everything else sure. essentially you could do all this and change things. then either put it on the store or contact them and ask if its ok
Unless Valve patented or copyrighted the gameplay mechanic. But doing those things would avoid the glaring problems.
There's quite a few games that doesn't LOOK like portal, but play like it and never got copyright issues
Portal is based on "Aqueous Jump" which was made by the portal team anyway. however, everyone is right, the mechanic is not copywrited, only the designs within.
It's Narbacular Drop, actually. And it was a senior project for one of those game developer colleges, I think DigiPen. Valve saw the demo and hired them very shortly after they graduated.
Ya, that's what I thought right from the begining as well. I could never tell what people were getting excited about. My only other post in this thread was quite awhile back pointing out that there was no news in this thread, Valve would never let it happen, and the developer was acting pretty weird. I in no way saw what people were getting excited about or why they were taking the thread seriously.
