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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 ...
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 ...
Single-player, multiplayer. Portal 2 is a 2011 puzzle-platform game developed by Valve for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. The digital PC version is distributed online by Valve's Steam service, while all retail editions were distributed by Electronic Arts. A port for the Nintendo Switch was included as part of Portal ...
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 ...
Later, prior to release of Portal 2 in 2011, a much more expansive ARG called the Potato Sack was run, arranged by a number of independent developers working with Valve, to simulate the re-booting of GLaDOS. The ARG resulted in the game being released several hours earlier than scheduled, among other details. [56]
Updated Fri, Apr 29, 2011 ยท 1 min read. Far be it from us to spoil even one second of Portal 2 for those who haven't finished it, but for those who have, Rock, Paper, Shotgun has posted a great ...
Michael Avon Oeming (young appearance) (Portal 2: Lab Rat) Andrea Wicklund (older appearance) (Portal 2: Lab Rat) Voiced by. Unknown (vocalizations in some music tracks) Doug Rattmann, often referred to as the " Ratman" is a character in both Portal and Portal 2. He was a former scientist working at Aperture and one of the few who survived when ...