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Portal and Portal 2. Deconstructing C omputer Games Ruaridh Mansbridge. Visual style of the game. Set in Aperture Laboratories You play as the silent protagonist, Chell, an Aperture Science employee
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Portal and Portal 2 Deconstructing Computer Games Ruaridh Mansbridge
Visual style of the game • Set in Aperture Laboratories • You play as the silent protagonist, Chell, an Aperture Science employee • Other characters (NPCs) include Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System (GLaDOS), Wheatley, Atlas and P-Body(the latter two are playable in Co-op mode) (images of characters dotted around the slide) • Portal and it’s sequel use a first-person perspective
How do you play the game? • Portal and it’s sequel are both playable on home consoles and PC • The goal is to complete all the test chambers using your Portal gun and several objects within the chambers (e.g. Companion Cube, springs, white Portalable surfaces etc.) (images dotted around slide) • the only weapon you have is the Portal Gun (image below). you must get through each test chamber alive • The difficulty level cannot be changed
What genre of game is it • First-person puzzle game
What type of person do you think plays this game? • Both Hardcore and Casual gamers of any age or gender