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Portal
Console
PC
Genre
Puzzle
Action
Released on
Oct 10, 2007
Portal is a 2007 puzzle-platform game developed and published by Valve. It was released in a bundleThe Orange Box, for WindowsXbox 360 and PlayStation 3, and has been since ported to other systems, including Mac OS XLinux, and Android (via Nvidia Shield).
Portal consists primarily of a series of puzzles that must be solved by teleporting the player's character and simple objects using "the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device", a device that can create inter-spatial portals between two flat planes. The player-character, Chell, is challenged and taunted by an artificial intelligence named GLaDOS (Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System) to complete each puzzle in the Aperture Science Enrichment Center using the portal gun with the promise of receiving cake when all the puzzles are completed. The game's unique physics allows kinetic energy to be retained through portals, requiring creative use of portals to maneuver through the test chambers. This gameplay element is based on a similar concept from the game Narbacular Drop; many of the team members from the DigiPen Institute of Technology who worked on Narbacular Drop were hired by Valve for the creation of Portal, making it a spiritual successor to the game.