tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1579476453301624046Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:35:16 +0000The unofficial prequel to Valve Softare's Portal.http://www.portalprelude.com/index.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Nicolas)Blogger63125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1579476453301624046.post-5222617045900526673Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:44:00 +00002009-10-09T21:03:26.761+02:00Today, it's been exactly one year since we first released Portal: Prelude. It was a hell of a year, but even if there's still some people discovering or playing the mod for the first time right now as I write, things highly cooled down. We tried to calculate the total download count, but this is just too hard to do after one year. Some websites have gone down, some websites don't count downloadshttp://www.portalprelude.com/2009/10/happy-birthday-portal-prelude.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Nicolas)30tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1579476453301624046.post-509476306259011611Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:41:00 +00002009-07-01T19:48:32.696+02:00For the few of you that are still arriving on this website for the first time, welcome! Take your time to understand what's going on via the links on the right and feel free to download the mod if you wish. Dont forget that there's a FAQ answering most if not all of the most common questions I received by e-mail during the last months. Remember, to play the game, you need Portal, this is not a http://www.portalprelude.com/2009/07/reminder.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Nicolas)12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1579476453301624046.post-2227459162693020453Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:52:00 +00002009-06-29T17:58:33.592+02:00A week ago, I praised our new player, Stimich, who managed to break almost all the time trial records on Portal: Prelude. Today, it has come to my hears that there could be a problem. Some fellow speedrunners warned me about some suspicious details on Stimich's videos and I decided to give it a little investigation. After a few hours of research on the Internet with my friend Google and with thehttp://www.portalprelude.com/2009/06/cheaters-aboard.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Nicolas)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1579476453301624046.post-1657456205442744680Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:15:00 +00002009-06-24T00:30:01.500+02:00For those of you who aren't really fond of scores and speed runs and don't regularly follow our challenges ladder either, be advised that there was some huge changes recently. During the last months, the scores were somewhat freezed and nothing changed significantly. But a newcomer appeared two week ago and now, he's slowly crushing every score, beating 10 time trials out of 14. As you can see, http://www.portalprelude.com/2009/06/challenger-appears.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Nicolas)11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1579476453301624046.post-692625980957824790Sun, 05 Apr 2009 14:30:00 +00002009-04-07T21:29:47.521+02:00Almost six months passed since the first release of Portal: Prelude, and even if the team is now working hard on something else, we keep watching our big baby grow more and more every day. Six monthes after the release, the time has come for a little overview of the situation. My Portal: Prelude folder in Thunderbird contains 2246 emails. I can't count the ones I didn't replied to, but it http://www.portalprelude.com/2009/04/portal-prelude-approaches-million.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Nicolas)22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1579476453301624046.post-8063927236674136287Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:25:00 +00002009-03-28T14:57:08.065+01:00Here we are. Almost half a year passed since we began communicating on this project and we believe it's time to unveil our next plans. Welcome to I Hate Mountains! Stay focused on this new website from now on! Beware, the following is a shameless copy of the about page. What? You hate mountains? No, it's not a joke, and no, we don't really hate mountains (only Francis does). "I Hate Mountains" http://www.portalprelude.com/2009/03/i-hate-mountains.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Nicolas)13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1579476453301624046.post-4982939545418246548Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:54:00 +00002009-03-11T23:02:13.852+01:00Looks like I'm repeating myself over again, but after our third place at ModDB's Mod of the Year Awards, Portal: Prelude didn't win the FilePlanet's Best Mod of 2008 Awards either, but made it to the third place (again)! Surprinsigly enough, we managed to beat the most downloaded mods of 2008 (again). Pirates Vikings and Knights 2 (Half-Life 2)Insurgency (Half-Life 2)Portal: Prelude (Portal)Losthttp://www.portalprelude.com/2009/03/portal-prelude-wins-third-place-at.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Nicolas)11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1579476453301624046.post-7027171802252044417Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:30:00 +00002009-03-05T18:37:05.699+01:00I just did a "post mortem" interview on Portal: Prelude, the Mod of the Year Awards, and stuff with the folks at GamesModding.com. There's nothing really new if you followed the development of this blog from the start, but if you didn't and/or want to know a bit more about the hows and whys of this mod, you should pay them a visit. The interview is right there. There's some really interesting http://www.portalprelude.com/2009/03/post-mortem-interview-kind-of.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Nicolas)7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1579476453301624046.post-7725633672057483270Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:58:00 +00002009-03-03T11:41:05.750+01:00Ok, that's right, it's a kind of big surprise. After 114,000 votes, Portal: Prelude didn't win the ModDB's Mod of the Year Awards, but made it to the third place! Surprinsigly enough, we also managed to beat the most acclaimed mods of 2008, including nearly every mod that got into Steam during the year. Project Reality (Battlefield 2)Zombie Panic: Source (Half-Life 2)Portal: Prelude (Portal)http://www.portalprelude.com/2009/03/portal-prelude-win-third-place-at.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Nicolas)14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1579476453301624046.post-3112094563715063115Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:39:00 +00002009-02-12T19:11:40.343+01:00Today, the votes for ModDB's Mod of the Year ended. We are now waiting for the results, but I doubt we'll get anything against such badass mods like the 99 others. But today is also the day FilePlanet launched their "Best of 2008" Awards! And surprise, Portal: Prelude is nominated in their "Mod of the Year" category. There is only 8 mods in competition, so I believe we have a bit more chances tohttp://www.portalprelude.com/2009/02/fileplanets-best-files-of-2008.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Nicolas)11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1579476453301624046.post-6100153261806947607Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:40:00 +00002009-02-03T00:45:42.314+01:00That's it! More than 350,000 downloads later, Portal: Prelude 1.1.5 (final) is released! This new version is shipped with more than 115 bug fixes, improvements and additions (since 1.0.0). We know everything's still not perfect (voices, grammar, difficulty), but we believe we put enough work in this mod and thus, this version should be considered final (except if something really bad happens). http://www.portalprelude.com/2009/02/portal-prelude-115-released.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Nicolas)10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1579476453301624046.post-6348085758120982432Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:37:00 +00002009-02-02T19:56:41.282+01:00During the last few days, I finished, packaged and tested the new 1.1.5 version of Portal: Prelude, and I decided to upload it to ModDB.com on Saturday. Then, when I saw they accepted the file on their website, I wrote a news on ModDB and announced the release. And today, I realized that the file that was uploaded on their website was totally corrupted. I don't know when and who really corruptedhttp://www.portalprelude.com/2009/02/portal-prelude-115-epic-fail.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Nicolas)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1579476453301624046.post-282078027289581884Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:48:00 +00002009-01-19T19:24:09.749+01:00Surprisingly and contrary to what everyone believed in and around the Portal: Prelude Team, we managed to make our way to the top 100 mods of 2008 for any games. Curiously, our little UFO made its way though 4,863 mods to the top. I must say that I was very surprised, because I didn't even try to publicize ourselves for this event and no one seemed to believe it could be possible to win anything http://www.portalprelude.com/2009/01/top-100-mod-of-year-awards.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Nicolas)12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1579476453301624046.post-3902349672976850588Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:58:00 +00002009-01-02T23:02:23.505+01:00Well... first, Happy New Year 2009 to everyone. I was kinda busy during the 31st and the 1st, and I didn't find the time to pass by. I don't know how it works in other countries, but in France we have a deal that says you can wish the new year until the 31st of january. So here it is. Then, I'm writing here to spread the word about something big that has just started today. The ModDB's Mod of http://www.portalprelude.com/2009/01/its-time-to-kick-some-ass.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Nicolas)13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1579476453301624046.post-8374955330337916783Thu, 25 Dec 2008 12:02:00 +00002009-01-04T14:21:05.899+01:00My team and I would like to wish you a merry Christmas! During the last weeks, a lot of fans asked for some download link to the new tracks of the 1.1.0 version. I thought I'd give it to you for Christmas, so here it it with an exclusive track/remix made by Valentin Brunn that I just found: Exclusive Valentin Brunn - Still Alive Prelude You can go and comment on his Vimeo page!Jarrett Heather - http://www.portalprelude.com/2008/12/merry-christmas.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Nicolas)10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1579476453301624046.post-8619538404503224387Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:48:00 +00002008-12-02T00:59:19.898+01:00We are definitely not dead. In fact, we are more awake than ever. That's right, our little vacations now looks like a whole abandon of the community and the support, but I really needed time to concentrate on my real life a bit. My two friends got their lives back too, Jérémy got back to school and Marc found a job at Ubisoft France, congratz for him. I know I still need to fix a few things out http://www.portalprelude.com/2008/12/not-dead-at-all.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Nicolas)15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1579476453301624046.post-2041067450219345124Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:40:00 +00002008-11-13T00:55:39.554+01:00On our forums, I met a couple of guys that are plain crazy and defy each others to see which one of them will manage to beat the challenges of Portal: Prelude in the least time, steps and portals. These guys are so skilled at Portal that most people can't even understand what they're doing on these videos! Check this out: This is why I decided to build them their own little official ladder, http://www.portalprelude.com/2008/11/portal-prelude-challenges-ladder.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Nicolas)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1579476453301624046.post-3422802430978370764Sun, 09 Nov 2008 04:27:00 +00002008-11-10T15:54:10.650+01:00Pfiou... it has been a hell of a month since the release. For the moment, we didn't made a final debriefing yet, because every member of the team (including myself) is taking vacations since the release of the 1.1.0 update. All we can say is that the downloads are still increasing at an incredible speed of 3,000 a day (and that doesn't include all the downloads started from another website than http://www.portalprelude.com/2008/11/radio-silence.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Nicolas)15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1579476453301624046.post-8092636052131330855Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:04:00 +00002008-10-31T01:12:41.360+01:00That's it! 145,000 downloads later, Portal: Prelude 1.1.0 is released! This new version is shipped with more than 80 bug fixes and additions, along with slightly easier/less frustrating first levels. Warning! Savegames are NOT compatible. Your progress with chapters unlocking is saved, but not savegames. Both the Portal: Prelude 1.1.0 complete installer and the 1.0.0 to 1.1.0 cumulative patch http://www.portalprelude.com/2008/10/portal-prelude-110-released.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Nicolas)45tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1579476453301624046.post-5750246720984885926Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:37:00 +00002008-10-30T16:45:20.781+01:00The 1.1.0 update is coming this week. We don't really know when yet, because it still needs a bit of work and we also need to contact each mirror to make them update the file. So, we can't really give you a definitive release date for the moment. When everything will be compiled/ready, I'll make a list of changed files and see if it's a good idea to make a "1.0.0 to 1.1.0 patch". But obviously, http://www.portalprelude.com/2008/10/portal-prelude-110-change-log.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Nicolas)43tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1579476453301624046.post-2370301415827348619Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:32:00 +00002008-10-24T09:55:35.702+02:00Some people asked us why we decided to use two commercial tracks in Portal: Prelude. They claimed it was a wrong idea and that was right, we missed a few opportunities because of this choice (mainly press coverage). Even if we tried to shorten them up and degrade their quality as bad as we could (Scorpions' extract is only 50 seconds long and degraded a lot) a few people still claimed it wasn't http://www.portalprelude.com/2008/10/matter-of-music-rights.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Nicolas)32tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1579476453301624046.post-8252127472984854751Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:51:00 +00002008-10-24T02:11:34.024+02:00On our forums, eddy posted this: Yeah your mod was really on MTV in the show called Gameone (in Germany). Very nice job guys ! Its splitted up in 6 parts. The mod is shown at the 3rd part at 1:15, here's the link: http://www.mtv.de/videos/19785652 (on the right side are the other parts: teil 1, teil 2 and so on). Now, the problem is that we can't see anything from France (apparently), the only http://www.portalprelude.com/2008/10/portal-prelude-featured-on-mtv-germany.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Nicolas)12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1579476453301624046.post-5185160018886730414Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:31:00 +00002008-10-22T00:28:14.322+02:00Skilled players wanted! We're looking for skilled players to get an idea on where to place bronze, silver and gold medals for the 15th, 18th and 19th challenges of Portal: Prelude that were not present in the first release. We are nowhere near enough skilled and we really don't have the time to work on it before the release of the patch, so we need to know your best scores, with a video proof if http://www.portalprelude.com/2008/10/skilled-players-wanted.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Nicolas)15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1579476453301624046.post-5609433578550690308Sun, 19 Oct 2008 22:38:00 +00002008-10-20T03:13:34.981+02:00Ten days after the release, here are some news regarding the upcoming patch we're working on. Here's what we did for the moment: Upload sountrack artworksAdd ID3 Tags to the MP3Reupload a compilation of all the MP3Change the soundtrack pageFix elevators when you can get stuck underUpload the walkthrough to MetaCafeAdd a disclaimer when the game startsFix the uneven difficulty of the first http://www.portalprelude.com/2008/10/some-news-regarding-upcoming-update.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Nicolas)24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1579476453301624046.post-3604015388086733263Sun, 19 Oct 2008 12:39:00 +00002008-10-19T14:48:52.943+02:00Another Portal master named Katz, heres's what he says: Here's my first Portal: Prelude video, my least step record on the first chamber. I spent many hours examinating this chamber, I'm sure it's possible to cut down a few more steps with nice tricks, but I don't belive it can be done under 20 steps, because you have to get the gun anyway. [...] I'm pretty sure more videos will come, I really http://www.portalprelude.com/2008/10/another-skilled-player-more-than-we-are.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Nicolas)8