Portal: The Flash Version

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Portal: The Flash Version
Developer(s)	We Create Stuff
Release date(s)	October 9, 2007
Genre(s)	Flash Browser Game, Puzzle video game
Mode(s)	Single-player
Platform(s)	Web-based (universal)
Distribution	Freely available on Newgrounds
System req	Flash Player 8 and up (Formerly)
Input	Keyboard and mouse
Designer(s)	Hen Mazolski, Ido Tal
Composer(s)	Ryan Champion

 

Portal: The Flash Version (often shortened to TFV) is a Flash game based on the gameplay of Portal.

Overview

Portal: The Flash Version is a side view 2D game, which takes advantage of Portal's most well-known mechanic: the Portal Gun. Many other elements from Portal are included in the 2D world, such as Energy Pellets, Weighted Storage Cubes and Sentry Turrets. It also features a few elements of its own, such as the Blue Plasma Walls, Red Plasma Walls, and Zappers.

The game has been ported into 3D in the form of a mappack for Portal. Some of its maps were reused for Portal: Still Alive.

Controls

Control	Action
Left mouse	Shoot a portal
W	Jump
A	Move left
D	Move right
Q	Fire blue portal
E	Fire yellow portal
R	Close both portals
F	Pick up/drop an object
~	Open console
O	Adjust quality
Esc/P	Pause

Differences from Portal

Portal: The Flash Version was developed prior to the release of Portal, being released one day prior, so there are some noticeable differences between The Flash Version and Portal. This is due to The Flash Version's developers having only trailers and other pre-release content to work with.

• The player is a unnamed male character, like Chell's placeholder model.
  • The player is only referred to by their subject number: 15837.
• Levels are referred to as "tasks" instead of test chambers.
• Task numbering starts with 01 instead of 00.
• The player starts with a fully upgraded Portal Gun in Task 01.
• The secondary portal is yellow instead of orange.
• The Portal Gun firing sounds are randomized, instead of having the sound correspond to the color of portal fired.
• Failing to place a portal or using R to fizzle portals plays the Gravity Gun dry fire sound.
• Falling through a portal always makes a wooshing sound, not just at high velcoities.
• Pistons make Crane sounds when moving, instead of Armored Personnel Carrier sounds.
• Energy Pellets have a much louder looping sound.
• Picking up and dropping objects with the Portal Gun plays the Gravity Gun pickup and drop sounds.
• Buttons make a light switch sound when deactivated.
• Elements are connected via dashed yellow lines instead of indicators.
• Sentry Turrets lack voices, using the sound effects of the Half-Life 2 Combine Sentry Gun instead.
  • Also like Combine Sentry Guns, they reactivate if they are brought upright again after being tipped.
  • Their lasers turn blue when firing.
• GLaDOS is not present. Instead, there are text prompts from an unseen announcer.

Guidance Text

A number of Tasks have text prompts that appear at the start. These are referred to as "Guidance" in the options menu, and can be closed by pressing Enter.

Intro

Good morning, subject number 15837. It is time to begin your test.

Task 01 ("Meet the ASHPD")

You may have noticed that this morning, you woke up in a very strange location. Your task today is to find your way to the exit door, and go through it, alive. You may not be able to complete this task by using your body only, but thanks to the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device (ASHPD) - the impossible is easy. Try shooting two holes, one reachable through your cell and one out of it. See what happens.

Task 02

As you may have learnt in the previous task, your portal device can shoot two different portal holes - yellow and blue. Each will lead you to the other's location.

Task 04 ("Portal-Proof walls")

The darker walls you may see in this task are different than the walls you met in previous tasks. Those are the the [sic] portal-proof walls - you may walk on them, but you cannot open portals on them.

Task 06 ("ASHPD+Momentum")

In some tasks, such as this one, you may thank us for taking this task at planet Earth. You need to use height and gravity to catch momentum, then use it to fly high and fast as you can, making unreachable spots - reachable.

Task 07

Those are the moving platforms. You can open portals on them only when they become active.

Task 09

Sometimes you will need more space than the room you are inside can give you to catch speed. That's where the infinite loop comes in.

Task 10 ("You are not invincible")

As we explained before the exam, some tasks may risk your performance as a human being.

Task 11

At some points, it's all about agility.

Task 12

And at some other points, it's all about timing.

Task 13

By the IQ exams you have taken before the test, you may already know what happens to those who stay between these two fields when they are active.

Task 14

Remember - portals can get you where your body can't.

Task 16 ("Anti-Object")

Blue plasma walls - you cannot go through them, but the density of your portal shots can.

Task 18

Red plasma walls - you can go through them, but it may not be a healthy thing for you to do. Every living creature that goes through them will be vaporized.

Task 19 ("Red Buttons")

One of the keys for your success are the red buttons. Stand still on them in order to make certain applications work.

Task 20

Here, unlike the previous task, the button must be held down to keep the door open. Alas. When you get off the button to go through the passage, the door closes. I will leave the thinking to you.

Task 21 ("Energy Balls")

Another inseparable part of your success are the energy balls. Your goal is to guide the ball into its receiver, activating a certain application. After a number of seconds the ball will explode, and a new ball will be launched. It is highly recommended to avoid any contact with the energy balls. It might vaporize you.

Task 25 ("Cubes")

Cubes. These metal chunks are very important for your success. They weigh more than you when you were 32, meaning they can hold the red buttons for you. They can also protect you, from some new challenges to come. You can portal the cubes and also pick them up using your ASHPD.

Task 29 ("They can shoot you")

Subject 15837, meet your first interactive friend - the turret. The turret will shoot you to death as long as you are in their sight. You cannot destroy turrets, but you can disable them by making them fall down to earth - making sure they are no longer stable. But be careful, after the turret gone unstable, it will shoot some warning shots. You can also pick up the turrets using your ASHPD, but you may want to be careful doing that.

Task 30

Energy balls and cubes may not destroy the turrets, but they sure can help disabling them.

Task 36

You are doing well, subject 15837. You are a good person.

"Cake!"

Congratulations, subject 15837. You finished all your tasks as a test participant. Your reward is waiting in the middle of this room, and you will be taken away through the exit door as soon as you are ready.

Console commmands

If enabled in the options, pressing the ` key will bring up a console styled after the Source engine's own console. Clicking inside the text field allows one to type out a command.

The following commands can be used:

Listed

These commands are listed when using help.

Command	Parameter	Description	Notes
info		Information.	Prints the version number, game website, and email addresses of Tal and Mazolski to the console. This same information is on the title screen, in the bottom left corner.
kill		suicide.	Prints "subject commited [sic] suicide with an invisible crowbar." to the console.
die
help		partial command database.
commandlist
showlist
showcommand
sound		enable/disable sounds.
sounds
aim		allow [SPACE] dummy portal.	Toggles the ability to show a portal placement hologram by holding Space. It is green when a portal can be placed, and red when it cannot.
space
detectshot
quality	0-3	set quality level.
effects	0-2	set effect level.
gravity	0>#	set map gravity level.
prevlevel		go to previous level.	If used in Task 01, the player will be taken to a large empty room with "?" on the sign, as well as "ZOMGOWNED" faintly visible on the wall.
nextlevel		go to next level.
showfps		visible/invisible fps and level name.

Unlisted

These commands are not listed when using help.

Command	Parameter	Notes
autoquality		Prints the same console messages as sound, but does not toggle the game audio.
cake		Prints "ZEH CAKE IZ A LIE" to the console.
console		Prints "that's me!" to the console.
createball		Spawns an Energy Pellet.
createbox		Spawns a Weighted Storage Cube.
createcam		Spawns a Security Camera.
createcompanion		Spawns a Weighted Companion Cube. Can be used only once per level.
createcompanioncube
createturret		Spawns a Sentry Turret.
crosshair		Toggles the crosshair.
dance		Toggles the ability to make the player dance by holding A and D. Can be prepended by a forward slash.
dynamiccam		Toggles camera following the player.
dynamicam
easteregg		Prints "you found it." to the console.
flash		Prints "it crashes a lot. And does problems with Vista x64 ):" to the console.
gman		Prints "yes, you can find him, visualy [sic], in this game..." to the console.
gmod		Prints "GMAN APPROVES." to the console.
god		Toggles player invulnerability.
gotolevel	0-42	Loads the specified level. Level 42 is the end credits.
hello		Prints "why hello." to the console.
hl2		Prints "is awesome." to the console.
hl2ep1		Prints "is truly awesome." to the console.
hl2ep2		Prints "is a great looking game which I have not yet played. but by the time you read this I probably already have." to the console.
iphone		Prints "don't even start." to the console.
iwanttoplayagame		Prints "you are already." to the console.
lol		Prints "lots of laughs?" to the console.
lolcopter		Prints "that's my ride home." to the console.
lost		Prints "charlie's dead ):" to the console.
nightmarehouse		Prints "is a hl2 mod by us D:" to the console.
noclip		Toggles noclipping.
nonsense		Prints "exactly, it doesn't make any sense." to the console.
orly		Prints "ya rly." to the console.
pie		Prints "Not just a pie, me friends, an APPLE pie." to the console.
portal		Prints "now you're thinking with portals. no, nothing was activated." to the console.
portalproof		Toggles the ability to place portals on non-portalable (dark) surfaces.
removebox
removecam
removeturret
restartlevel		Restarts the current level.
restartmap
roflcopter		Prints "that's the father of lolcopter." to the console.
shoopdawoop		Prints "IMAH CARCHING MAH LAZAR" to the console.
showmapbox
showportalbox
showportalhitbox
showportalmask
showshots
showshot
showsteps
showstep
stop		Prints "():" to the console.
stopallsounds		Stops all sounds currently playing.
stopsounds
tf2		Prints "well, I liked the first..." to the console.
thanks		Prints "anytime." to the console.
time		Prints "what's the point? you know the time, you're just teasing me." to the console.
website		Prints "wecreatestuff.com" to the console.
wecreatestuff		Prints "oh, we totally do." to the console.
xbox		Prints "X BAWX!" to the console.
zing		Prints "zzzing!" to the console.
zingcraft		Prints "zzzzzzzzwish!~" to the console.
zomg		Prints "ZEUS OWNED MY GEODUDE." to the console.
zomgowned		Prints "lol." to the console.

Trivia

• The main menu uses a looping portion of Self Destruction from the Half-Life 2: Episode 1 soundtrack, from approximately 0:18 to 0:27.
• In Task 16, the G-Man can be seen in the window in the bottom center of the level.
• The "blue plasma walls" and "red plasma walls" served as the inspiration for Hard Light Bridges and Laser Fields, respectively.

Gallery

• 

  In-game screenshot.

• 

  Ditto.

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  Ditto.

External links

• Official website
• Newgrounds page

See also

• Codename: Gordon - a sidescroller spin-off of Half-Life.