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<\/p>\nAspiring megalomaniacs can now get their first look at Valve’s new puzzle creator for Portal 2.<\/p>\n
While the Portal 2 Authoring Tools released earlier this year were popular, Valve say they got a lot of feedback saying they were too complicated to use, alienating gamers who weren’t architects or structural engineers.<\/p>\n
The new tool set aims to be a simpler and streamlined, and for most, more fun. Valve’s philosophy behind the design is “powerful, but straightforward”.<\/p>\n
It’s not just the creation of the puzzles that Valve hopes to streamline either, they’re making it a lot easier to both play others’ puzzles and share your own.<\/p>\n
In their words, “[players will] be able to immediately upload those levels to their Steam Cloud and share them with other players online. We’re also building a community site to host all of these player-created puzzles. The site will allow players to quickly find new puzzles and add them to their game, ready to play, with a single click. Players will then be able to rate the puzzles they’ve played, leave comments for puzzle creators, and follow creators they like.”<\/p>\n
To illustrate their straightforward approach, they’ve released screenshots of the editor in action, and one has to admit that it does look very sleek and non-threatening. Then again, so did GLaDOS. Check it out:<\/p>\n
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Source: Valve<\/a><\/p>\n