Blue Portals

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January 2024
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Blue Portals Blue Portals is a first person puzzle platformer running on the Source Engine. Restricted to just blue portals, you have to get through a variety of interesting tests, with brand new game mechanics!

Overview

The mod is for the game Portal Portal. You explore the Blue Portals Development Center, getting by, test by test. The mod has custom maps, materials, models, and audio. The mod was developed by Reepblue and ChrisWeyland, and released in 2010. The 2014 release includes Extended Play, Conversion Cubed, and both entries for the PlanetPhillip mapping competition. It also adds full support for the Steampipe update. The mod has an average of a 9.1 rating on ModDB, from a combined total of 375 votes at the time of this page was written.

Blue Portals: UP

Blue Portals: Understanding Portals was going to be an expansion to Blue Portals, being developed by ChrisWeyland and WinstonSmith. It took place in a different Blue Portals center, and had a slightly different art direction.

Blue Portals: Refresh

Blue Portals: Refresh was an attempt at picking up where they left of, since UP was canned. It was going to be a little more “fun” with vibrant colors and party balloons. It eventually turned into a version of Blue Portals 2 running off Portal 2 Portal 2. It was reported that the performance was terrible, and there are unfortunately no photos of it in that state.

Blue Portals: 5th Anniversary Edition

Blue Portals: 5th Anniversary Edition was an attempt at getting a version of Blue Portals greenlit for Steam. It would have included revamped assets, bug fixes, steam achievements, and some general enhancements. Rhetorical Games were involved in its development. It apparently isn't cancelled, and is "between developers" as of 2020.

Blue Portals: Redux

There’s a version coming to steam still currently in development, called Blue Portals: Redux. It’s being developed by Rhubarb & Rhubarb. It was initially teased in 2019, and not too much is known about it.

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