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Potato Sack. The ARG's theme of potatoes reflected a part of Portal 2' s story, in which the game's antagonist ( GLaDOS) is powered by a potato battery. The Potato Sack is the name of an alternate reality game (ARG) created by Valve and the developers of thirteen independent video games to promote the release of Valve's game Portal 2, in April ...
Valve had only one idea: releasing Portal 2 on Steam early through this ARG. The rest was crafted as a result of this indie summit, including coded messages hidden in the games at varying levels ...
For fans, the recent Portal 2 ARG began with the discovery of unexpected, hidden messages within the "Potato Sack" bundle of indie games. As it happens, the project's development also started with ...
On April 1, 2011, Valve released another alternate reality game called the Potato Sack. [127] Players tried to solve the multi-tiered puzzle, coordinating efforts through web sites and chat rooms. Some journalists believed the game denoted the release of Portal 2 on April 15, 2011, instead of the target release date of April 19, 2011.
The countdown to next week's release of Portal 2 continues and, in this day of digitally delivered games, there's no better sign that it's really happening than this: the pre-load. For those of ...
A brief history of hidden Portal-related messages. The three image files encoded in the sound turn out to be slides detailing the ARG that led to the reveal of some Portal 2 info -- also using ...
An alternate reality game (ARG) is an interactive narrative that uses the real world as a platform, ... Potato Sack: 2011 Valve: Portal 2 and 13 indie games:
The diligent Potato Sack players did their job, unlocking Portal 2 a bit early. The Steam version is unlockable right now. This hours-early release is the culmination of an insane ARG that's been ...