Valve’s Portal Not So Original?

July 21st, 2006 by Matt Stone in News

Narbacular Drop

I was pleasantly surprised with Valve’s portal announcement and trailer a few days ago. It turns out that the “portal” gameplay concept was actually from a game called Narbacular Drop, a game that won the IGF Student Showcase award. Apparently, Valve saw the game and contacted the indie developers, offering a few of them the contract to make the game using the Source engine.

You can download freeware game here (27 MB).

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2 Responses to “Valve’s Portal Not So Original?”

  1. Josh Says:
    July 22nd, 2006 at 12:14 am

    Nothing’s ever truely original, just 2 ideas that haven’t been paired together before.

    The reason the original game was created was to get noticed and get a job no?

  2. winning blackjack Says:
    August 12th, 2007 at 10:08 pm

    Salut !

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