{"id":44,"date":"2007-11-03T12:18:07","date_gmt":"2007-11-03T19:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hunkele.net\/blog\/2007\/11\/03\/the-cake-is-a-lie\/"},"modified":"2007-11-03T12:18:07","modified_gmt":"2007-11-03T19:18:07","slug":"the-cake-is-a-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hunkele.net\/blog\/the-cake-is-a-lie\/","title":{"rendered":"The cake is a lie!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Valve’s “Portal” has opened a whole new…..Portal….. into the world of gaming. What made the original Half-Life such a great game was that you had to use your head, it was not a button masher. The last versions (HL2, Episode 1&2) put their focus into visuals effect, lighting, physics. All of which create a great gaming environment, but the addition of the portal gun just makes things really fun.<\/p>\n

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The premise of the game is that you are a test subject evaluating the portal gun through 18 test chambers, all the while being promised cake at the end…. The idea is to shoot 2 portals, one to walk in, and one to walk out. Check out this video explaining the concept.<\/p>\n

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This new machanism creates a dynamic that makes game play very engrossing. Even though some levels left me wanting to tear my hair out, I really enjoyed the game. I would like to see this incorporated into the Half-life series. Some people have found a way to “hack” the gun into Half-life 2<\/a>, but my attempt was unsuccessful.<\/p>\n

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Valve’s “Portal” has opened a whole new…..Portal….. into the world of gaming. What made the original Half-Life such a great game was that you had to use your head, it was not a button masher. The last versions (HL2, Episode 1&2) put their focus into visuals effect, lighting, physics. All of which create a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hunkele.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hunkele.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hunkele.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hunkele.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hunkele.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.hunkele.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79,"href":"http:\/\/www.hunkele.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/79"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hunkele.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hunkele.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hunkele.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}