Portal: Prelude

[NykO18]

Hello,

I'm sending this message because this website is among the most popular websites talking about the Half-Life universe. I found you via the Valve Developer Community, and I need to ask you a favor. We're a team of three frenchies, and we are happy to announce that our current project, Portal: Prelude is nearing its conclusion.

You may ask yourself, "what the hell is this all about" ? Portal: Prelude ? Never heard about this, huh ? Yes of course, and this is exactly the point. You never heard about it because it was developped in the dark, and kept secret until almost fully finished and polished. Now, the game is nearly finished and we are looking for sponsors to help us promote the game around the Internet and provide hosting if possible. First, we would really appreciate you to help us promote our work, by relaying the news and offering a link to our official trailer. And in a second time, if you are able to provide us with a hosting mirror for the game files (approximately 750 MB) please let us know by sending an email to press@portalprelude.com.

Here's a list of media you can use to build a news :

- The body message here (if needed) : http://www.portalprelude.com/2008/09/wh ... -about.php

- The trailer : http://www.portalprelude.com/videos.php

+ Vimeo : http://www.vimeo.com/1739740

+ Dailymotion : http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6ro9g ... videogames

+ Youtube : http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=X2XExZ1FFoU

Others :

- Screenshots : http://www.portalprelude.com/screenshots.php

- The soundtrack : http://www.portalprelude.com/soundtrack.php

- The team : http://www.portalprelude.com/team.php

- The forums : http://www.portalprelude.com/forum/

The game is set to be released somewhere around the end of september, or the beginning of october.

We hope you'll take us seriously and help us to get the visibility we need.

Sincerely,

— NykO18 (Portal: Prelude Manager)

PS: Don't take me wrong if I post the same message on a lot of different places. That would have been sooooo long to make a custom one for every website. That doesn't mean you're not counting for us. Communication is hard.

[e-freak]

awesome! feature on hlportal coming soon (means you'll be featured on our website and all magazines published by our partner-publisher) now give us some DL!

[Furyo]

If Nyk018 is in charge, you can only assume things will be good. Need help testing the maps, give us all a call

[e-freak]

http://www.hlportal.de/?site=news&do=sh ... ws_id=6320

The first pages are starting to crawl:

http://cstrike.de/comments.php?newsid=15052 (they don't belong to our partner-sites but they copy-cat our news always and in this case it could be helpful )

[D3ads]

That's looking superb! I like how you've got locations outside of the portal area as well

[NykO18]

http://www.hlportal.de/?site=news&do=shownews&news_id=6320

I really appreciate what you did there.

Thank you so much for that kind attention.

[Defrag]

Really, really slick trailer. Loved the music and the level design & attention to detail is impressive. I will be downloading this Best of luck!

[-HP-]

Man, this is looking awesome!

[Inveramsay]

That definitely looks good, heck that video could be mistaken for something valve made. Good job!

[Hourences]

Neat, I will certainly play it when it is released

I would liked a new theme though. Away from the white-brown-black portal style.

[Freak]

that is absolutely awesome! can u tell us how long the whole gameplay is?

[aevirex]

Very nice. I will definitly reinstall Portal once this is out!

[FrieChamp]

I would liked a new theme though. Away from the white-brown-black portal style.

Yea I don't mean to belittle your efforts, it is probably tons of work to create as it is, but a visually different setting would have been awesome...

[Nysuatro]

The video reminds me of a gamegraphics video of a demoparty in Germany.

Looking forward to play this. Congratz with the release.

[aevirex]

The video reminds me of a gamegraphics video of a demoparty in Germany.

Looking forward to play this. Congratz with the release.

Hehe yeah. The beginning (credits) reminded me of one of Farbrausch's demos (debris iirc).