{"id":12651,"date":"2011-06-29T17:04:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T15:04:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"portal-2-map-contest-winners-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/12651-portal-2-map-contest-winners-revealed","title":{"rendered":"Portal 2 map contest winners revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PC Portal modding community <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkingwithportals.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Thinking with Portals\">Thinking with Portals<\/a> (not to be confused with Valve&rsquo;s official Portal two website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkwithportals.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Think with Portals\">ThinkWithPortals.com<\/a>) has wrapped up their Summer Mapping Initiative and selected 25 community developed singleplayer and co-op maps for download. Valve was involved in coordinating the contest.<\/p>\n<p>The top 25 maps can be viewed <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.thinkingwithportals.com\/newspost-t3812.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. The top three maps available for download are listed below.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/forums.thinkingwithportals.com\/downloads.php?view=detail&amp;df_id=861\" target=\"_blank\">Patent Pending 1.1<\/a> <\/strong>(single player)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">A 30-minute level of intermediate difficulty with four chambers set in the destroyed Aperture Science facilities. Some puzzle elements include hard light surfaces, discouragement beams, aerial faith plates, and excursion funnels.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/forums.thinkingwithportals.com\/downloads.php?view=detail&amp;df_id=602\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Infinifling 2.5<\/strong><\/a> (single player)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Infinifling puts the player directly into a chamber filled with redirections (we had to have some) and mechanics built on prevailing mid-air portaling techniques, though with less difficulty and more fun.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/forums.thinkingwithportals.com\/downloads.php?view=detail&amp;df_id=617\" target=\"_blank\">Edifice<\/a><\/strong> (single player)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">A medium-hard, fairly long map in the destroyed chamber style.<\/p>\n<p>Console gamers will have to hang on for the first and free Portal 2 DLC before they can get a taste of the new maps. The DLC is of course also coming to PC. It will include, according to Valve, &ldquo;new test chambers for players, leaderboards, challenge mode for single and multiplayer modes, and more.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/15227-Portal-2-custom-map-contest-winners-revealed\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Portal 2 map contest winners revealed\">Portal 2 map contest winners revealed<\/a><\/strong> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portal 2 mapping initiative ends with three winners\u2019 maps now available for download<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}