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Portal: Still Alive was announced as an exclusive Xbox Live Arcade game at the 2008 E3 convention, and was released on October 22, 2008. [63] It features the original game, 14 new challenges, and new achievements. [ 64 ]
Portal: Still Alive was a standalone version of Portal with additional content for the Xbox Live Arcade, released in October 2008. [31] The game included new achievements, additional challenges from the existing test chambers, and additional non-story levels based on those found in the Flash -based Portal: The Flash Version created by We Create ...
Still Alive. " Still Alive " is the song featured in the closing credits of the 2007 video game Portal. It was composed and arranged by Jonathan Coulton and was performed by Ellen McLain, who voiced the Portal antagonist and in-game singer of the song, GLaDOS. The song originated in a meeting between two Valve developers and Coulton about him ...
The frequency of her voice sessions allowed Valve to experiment with GLaDOS's lines and how they came out within the final game. [40] After finding that "Still Alive" was a large part of Portal 's success, Valve included more music in Portal 2, including further involvement from Coulton. [41]
Tyler Wilde from GamesRadar noted that "The cake is a lie" became one of the most repeated video game quotes by the year 2009. [10] Stephen Totillo, who was an editor at MTV.com in 2008, attributed part of Portal ' s widespread acclaim to the phrase, along with its theme song, "Still Alive", and the Weighted Companion Cube. [11]
The game won 76 awards, including 37 Game of the Year awards, [97] and was recognized for innovative design and game mechanics. [99] [100] [101] The dark humor of Portal and the ending music track "Still Alive" were also singled out for awards. [102] [103]
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 ...
Valve is an American video game developer and publisher founded in 1996 by Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington. The company is based in Bellevue, Washington. [1] Valve's first game was Half-Life, a first-person shooter released in 1998. [2] It sold over nine million retail copies. [3][4] Alongside Half-Life ' s launch, Valve released development ...