MODDB page

maybe some of you have already noticed but I thought I’d just put it up here anyways:

We now have our own MODDB page at moddb.com!

I’m trying to slowly but surely leave this wordpress blog and focus on the moddb page since it’s a way for efficient way of publishing news, posting screenshots, uploading movies, It has a forum and it looks way better to!

So if you’re curious about the new moddb page visit it here!: www.moddb.com/mods/portal-stories

For now there’s nothing else to say so till next update!

 

-pieter

MARIS voice…again

If you have been following all these post for some time you might know by know we’ve had big problems with the voice of MARIS, from text-to-speech to letting some of my friends record them, and back to text-to-speech again. 

But now I know we’ve found the perfect solution: Rina-chan!

Rina-chan is a great voice-actress, she has voiced over a thousand characters and rising. A multi-talented girl who doubles as a writer and audio producer! For more information about Rina-chan check out her website here.

She will be doing the MARIS voice for the game, and Batfrog (from my previous post) will polish the voice with his mad audio editing skillz!

I’ll post a sample as soon as I can, happy waiting!

-Pieter

 

ps:  sorry for being so late but: HAPPY NEWYEAR ALL!!!! and happy cola drinking to colin!

sound baby!

as you might have read in the post beneath this one, we might have found someone to make the cool sounding MARIS voice for us.

WRONG!!! he will now be doing all of our sounds/voices effects!

so new team member: batfrog (sound-guy) <–warm welcome please!

slowly but surely this team is starting to grow into a complete set of all people you might be needing to create a mod. one more point for Portal Stories!

progress updates

about the MARIS promise, she’s done alright. but she still needed some polishing up to do like cables hanging from her body. so I’m sorry I don’t have any screen shots for you.

there has been some slight tweaks in the story and I think I’ve found someone to do the MARIS voice for us (still unconfirmed, I’m waiting for a reply).

as for the next beta, you’re not going to play anything until I got that opening scene all figured out. so I guess you’ll have to wait a few weeks, sorry

also I received the next question in my mail box:
“Are you gonna keep posting updates on this blog or are you gonna switch to a REAL domain? It will be much easier for people to reach you and you will be able to manipulate the interface yourself.”

The answer is simple, I’m not planning on trowing away money. I will switch to a real domain eventually but only like a month before the official release.

till the next update!

No big news…

Not much new happened since the last post.
I did get a call from Colin yesterday telling me he will be finished with MARIS by Friday! Let’s hope he keeps his promise and we will have screen shots up and ready by the end of this week.

contest winners

Congratulations to:

Rowtree

and

Portalboat

and two others people from wich we don’t know the name.

The reason for the result delay was because the winning ideas lacked only one thing: their names. I tried to figure them out but no luck so far.

anyways, thanks for all those who had send in an idea or design. Winners will receive E-mail notification and a place in the credits.

 

-Pieter888

design contest & some more updates!

hey all!

I’ve been experimenting with the MARIS voice A LOT. But finally I think I’ve found “The” MARIS voice. you can listen/download it via the download section of the blog. If anyone has some suggestions/tips/hints/criticism whatever. feel free to let me know about it by either leaving a comment on the blog or by contacting us by email: PortalStories@gmail.com

I’ve also added a “Contact” page for the blog so you will always know how to contact us.

So this is the final day for sending in the designs you all made. better hurry because we wont accept any designs that are send in after the deadline (November 20th) unless the design is rockin’ awesome and kick ass in many different directions. I think we will choose our winners in two days from now.

If your still interested in entering the contest you can check the contest page over here.

 

Happy waiting!

-pieter888

AVG security flaw

About the problem that I posted two days ago, I figured out this wasn’t my problem at all and I want to share you why the user32.dll mistake happend: THAT’S WHY 

the article behind the link clearly states the following: “According to AVG, an update released late Saturday fingered the “user32.dll” file as a Trojan horse. As per the program’s settings, the AVG software, shut the .dll away in quarantine, then deleted it.”

bad, bad me for using free antivirus software….

I was clearly a victim of a bad planned update from my AVG anti-virus scanner. I’m glad I managed to fix it, It has caused problems on pc’s WORLDWIDE! So I can count myself lucky just a note: NO PORTAL STORIES DATA WAS LOST! I only got a bit delayed

Also I heard word from Colin (our modeller AND cocacola addict) That the MARIS model is almost finished ^^

well, I got nothing more to tell you all. happy waiting!

-Pieter888

Lucky us!

Hey all,

Nothing really important to tell you all except that we are working on it

All the Portal Stories game files are stored on my laptop, witch means if something goes wrong with my laptop… we will have to start all over again. So this morning when I woke up, I turned on my laptop and BANG blue screen of death, something about a missing dll called user32.dll.

Somehow I managed to copy the user32.dll from my recovery cd to the right place so my laptop started running normal again. I promised myself this: From now on I’ll make a new back-up from Portal Stories EVERY week, or when huge changes are made.

I hope this will save Portal Stories from going boom

CHEERS!

-Pieter888

Portal Stories speeding up!

Hey all!

Pieter here,

A little thing about the previously posted poll (about what new stuff you would like in the game), the results showed to big favorites:

1. Bigger companion cubes (32%)
2. Slow motion fields (22%)

Somehow I think the second one is rather useless because it doesn’t make the game more fun… just easier.

But I never though Bigger companion cubes would make it to the first place! I feel kind of bad for the little cube… anyhow, we think the cube is perfect as it is: not to heavy, you can just jump on it, It makes a perfect portable shield, and it still fits through portals. 

Just to keep things short: We won’t be making any changes is the cube, but we will give slomotion fields some thought.

On to the next thing, the Portal Stories Team now includes another mapper!

He goes by the name of Demon and he’s a great lad to have around when making a mod like this  

This will speed up the progress of Portal Stories so give him a warm welcome.

As for the mapping contest: It is still going and we’ve seen some fair results so far. If you think you can do better, make sure to post you’re idea!

Have a nice day!

-Pieter888