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Portal projects

People love Portal!
(FYI: Portal = popular video game from Valve software.)
Exhibit A: Recreation of the PC cases found in the game
Nick writes -

You've got a stock PC, but don't have enough cash to build a new one. Well...Mod it! After seeing me play a little of portal, my wife liked the look of the Aperture Center computer cases. So I decided to turn my stock PC into a "Portal PC." Enjoy!

Game reference or not, that's a fine looking machine. - Link

and Exhibit B: The companion cube shaped tissue box

After playing Portal, I needed my very own companion cube, but didn't want some cube cluttering up my desk. So after spending some time in the hobby store, I found a nice cube shaped tissue box holder, and thus my useful companion cube was born. - Link

Perhaps a game based heavily upon physics has a tendency to become physical?

Update:

Inspired by work seen here, Francis cooked up this neat weighted companion cube candle - complete with a how-to
Thanks Francis!

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Comments

Oldest comments listed first.

Posted by: AKirA on March 11, 2008 at 7:06 AM

YEah people love portal, as me in this video! :)

Translation on the information side of youtube
http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=xFvPjrBrL5A

Posted by: Katee on March 11, 2008 at 8:30 AM

Portal isn't just a 360 game, it is also a PC and PS3 game. In this case I'd probably go with "(Portal is a popular video game from valve.)" so you're not singling out a single console.

Posted by: zof on March 11, 2008 at 11:51 AM

I would like to mention it was released for the uber PC people before it was for any console lock in suckers. Support developers not microsoft or sony, and buy it for PC! sorry had to get that off my chest.

Posted by: Collin Cunningham on March 11, 2008 at 12:13 PM

@Katee - Thanks, duly noted.

Posted by: Jake on March 11, 2008 at 12:17 PM

Indeed, I take offense to it being called a 360 game. It's not. It's a port.

The PC version is superior.

Posted by: Z on March 11, 2008 at 2:11 PM

I think someone forgot to mention the cake is a lie.

Posted by: positive anion on March 11, 2008 at 6:34 PM

Huge success!

Posted by: Brandon on March 11, 2008 at 8:23 PM

one word describes this mod: SEXY

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