Gaming

Holy crap!

No, really. HOLY CRAP!!

Valve just vastly increased the replay value of Portal2. The Community Map Editor makes Portal mapping easy. It's all literally drag and drop.

I think by far the most challenging aspect of the editor is making a map the player can't break. I've found myself resorting to making every surface unportalable unless I specifically want the player to portal there. To disguise this, I've taken to revealing with a button and a flip panel as many of those as possible.

I sincerely hope this is only a first step and not a finished product, though. Not because it doesn't work as intended- it does- but because it isn't enough. I want to be able to put every last entity type into the editor, dammit, and the lack of even lighting options just bothers me.

However, as a proof of concept, as a trial run, as the best damn thing to happen to game mapping ever, this really does the job. Caroline, get me a bagel and some cream cheese. We have some testing goodness to spread!