Fighting Mongooses on Level Design

CB of the Fighting Mongooses, continuing to relentlessly spam the blog with inanity. Today's topic: architecture! That's vague, though, so let's narrow it down just a hair, and correlate the design of the Testing Center with the mindset of its deliciously diabolical propagator, GLaDos. Note that this is in reference exclusively to Portal the First.Before GLaDos' intentions have been made explicitly...

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Fighting Mongooses Part Two

I Played through portal again to get myself in the mindset. I wanted to have a mind full of Weighted storage cubes before I started looking at the theory of study. One thing I noticed from a theatrical point of view, There is very little music. There is the occasional radio in a Rat Man nest or with a few cubes. Other than that, I can think of only really think of a few moments with music. The moment...

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Narrative Speculation of Portal

The "cake is a lie" is the key to understanding Portal's narrative meaning. Possibly referencing the nature of our world, where we are told from a young age that the world is our oyster and there is many splendors to be achieved. But in truth, the prize, goal and cake aren't actually achievable things, just the journey to that lie. However, is Portal referencing the journey to the lie is the prize....

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Just learned a new word!

"Psychogeography"Not sure what it is (though I can guess) but it sounds like something you should all look up. I saw it mentioned in a comment about studies of how amnesia functions in video games.There is SUCH interesting work going on in this field...

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Fighting Mongooses Are Go

Chris Bennett of the Fighting Mongooses, reporting in. Collectively, our team has devoured the original Portal and supped on the screenshots of the sequel. Needless to say, we're hungry for more.We've gathered up a few sources already - we're going for a nice, even mix of incisive interviews offered up by those darling little developers, and pretentious undergraduate theses we found in the interweb's...

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FIRST MEETING

Hello, all. We will have a very brief class meeting this coming Tuesday, April 26th, at 10:00am in the Drover Den. I'll hand out some info and we can check out the new console, download Portal, etc. See you the...

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