Summary: Expert gamer gives tips on getting to a safe space jumping through portals on platforms and not getting disoriented; learn more tips about Orange Box's game Portal in this free computer gaming video clip.
Raised in rural southern Illinois, John Sexton's entertainment options were limited to video games and sitting in the parking lot of the Mad Pricer grocery store. While Mad Pricer...read more
"Today, we're going to be learning how to play Portal, a game by Valve Software, a company with which I have no affiliation. So this was a very difficult puzzle, not conceptually but it's difficult to execute. So what we did was we had a portal that went down in the bottom of the chasm--that you can't see right here--in the entrance here, and we jumped in the chasm and came out of here which launched us high enough in the air to be able to shoot a portal down on this platform. Then when we fell back into this one, we came out of this one. And we shot another portal onto here and then we went back into this portal and popped out of this one. Did the same thing from here to here, and then we did the same thing from here to here, and that launched us across to this safe space. Thankfully, we're done with that very disorienting puzzle and that brings us to the end of this test chamber."