The Evolution of Portal Games and Mods 2.0

THE EVOLUTION OF PORTAL 3.0 WILL RELEASE ON APRIL 19TH, PORTAL 2'S 10TH ANNIVERSARY.
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Mods in order
0:00 - OG Timestamps by Gnawmon
0:08 - Narbacular Drop
0:29 - Portal
0:39 - Portal: Prelude
0:46 - Portal: Still Alive
1:03 - Portal 2 Mod
1:30 - Portal Pro
1:42 - Aperture Dejá Vu
1:59 - Factum Solus and Blue Portals
2:27 - Portal Unity
2:52 - Portal 2
3:19 - 4portal
3:33 - Portal Flash Version
3:47 - Rexuara
4:10 - 12 Angry Tests
4:27 - Dilapidation
4:51 - Chell's Way to Home (cant play yet)
4:58 - Portal Smile
5:11 - Cloned Cube
5:51 - Thinking with Time Machine
6:30 - Cosmogony
7:16 - A Minuted Millions
7:32 - Aperture Tag
8:25 - Above Aperture
8:44 - Portal Stories : Mel
8:55 - Portal 2: Into the Multiverse
9:28 - PortalHOT
10:10 - Eidolon
10:37 - Portal: Bright Lights
10:55 - Portal.EXE
11:10 - Wheatley's Unscientific Tests
11:18 - Portal After Hours
11:44 - Error
11:59 - Portal hope
12:15 - Portal ASIT
12:35 - Aperture Lunar Innovations
12:52 - Aperture Adventures
13:18 - Portal Infinitum
13:23 - Portal Stay Inside
13:27 - Portal Repercussions
13:30 - Test Gemini
13:35 - Valhalla
13:38 - Loreleine
13:42 - Aperture.exe
13:46 - Portal 2 Abyss
13:51 - Absolute Zero
Excludes VR and 2D Games.
-Mari0 - 2012
-The Lab - 2016
-Portal Stories VR - 2016
-Bridge Constructor: Portal - 2017
-Aperture Hand Lab - 2019
Music:
#1 - The Cake is a Lie (The Hamster Alliance)
#2 - The Solution (The Hamster Alliance)
#3 - The Thinking With Time Machine Menu Music
#4 - The Stanley Parable Demo - Anticipating Stanley
#5 - Portal Stories Mel - Deep Sleep
#6 - Portal Stories Mel - Testing Begins
#7 - Aperture Tag - You are a dead test subject
#8 - Portal Repercussions - Menu_test

[@domomess4719]

The logo i made is in the thumbnail! That was trippy to see out of nowhere lmao. Neat video!

[@BradyAus]

Ooooo! You did a great job with the logo, and thanks!

[@mrtrd3731]

Cool

[@mr.cornfish3349]

What one?

[@BradyAus]

Bottom middle

[@appliedatoms7066]

Looks like it *was* in the thumbnail.

[@linenine]

3:31 THAT TRANSITION

[@GoldPrince2468]

Most of the transitions tho. Brilliant!

[@filval387]

2:52 whoever did that mod is very talented, they should have some kind of company for making games!

[@RYFT0R]

*ah yes lmao*

[@ArstotzkaEmpire]

well, at least we agree that portal mod is the best. But what about that mel mod they've made? I didn't know people made mods for mods for portal before.

[@SageGilbert191]

We want portal 3

[@n0vag4ming]

@@SageGilbert191 what do you mean portal 3? We dont even have 2 yet!

[@kwabecikuwu9161]

@@n0vag4ming yea i think he was misleaded by the name of the "portal2" mod

[@unknownknife4993]

Love the fact alot are still in development and that alot of the P2 ones are just maps

[@BradyAus]

They say that Portal 2 mapping is harder than Portal 1 or Half-life mapping.

[@unknownknife4993]

@@BradyAus this video needs more views

[@BradyAus]

I agree, but what can I do?

[@unknownknife4993]

@@BradyAus I think its great that you took the time to put together almost all of the dlc and extras to the portal games

[@unknownknife4993]

Why not share it on reddit I bet some people would love it

[@eleskeletitto4900]

Thank god digipen students created narbacular dtop

[@squiltzzquilts9997]

hold on ima give u 98 diamonds for brining back my childhood memories

[@RakastanPorkkanakakkua]

Prey 2006 already portal-like portals and came just one year later. Also, Prey didn't only have portals, it also had gravity-defying platforms like in Mario Galaxy and you could also spin the axis of some rooms, making the wall be the floor and the floor be the wall. That game is so criminally underrated.

[@eliseosroom4392]

Valve even named an achievement after narbacular drop.

[@ohokay4663]

8:44 is my personal favorite, maybe even more than the original portal games. The companion core is just so fun ♡

[@COASTER1921]

I discovered it last year and was amazed by how polished it was. It's practically Portal 3 if one were to be made in the years after 2. The puzzles build on the difficulty set in Portal 2, the graphics are equally polished, and there was actual story to it. My only small gripe was the voice acting which could get a little shrill at times but it absolutely didn't detract from the experience.

[@AliYassinToma]

@@COASTER1921 its portal 1.5 but with better graphics design than portal 2

[@BradyAus]

Guys I have to admit, even I got a little shook by that jumpscare.

[@TheCoolEevee]

What jumpscare

[@BradyAus]

11:09

[@TheCoolEevee]

@@BradyAus So I was right. It *was* for Portal.exe

[@sewdyer98747]

lol

[@ms.pirate]

You added that in!!! I saw the gameplay of the mod and that was not in the mod! Don't act so innocent!!!

[@lastingwoe]

2:58 oh look, it's that cursed chamber

[@dankmachine]

What do you mean? There’s nothing wrong with my test chamber

[@dabakonader]

Couldn’t agree more

[@thecpg980]

5:55 Thinking with Time Machine? more like Thinking with Server Cheats.

[@JacobKinsley]

Thinking with console

[@thecpg980]

@@JacobKinsley yes

[@JohnnyBoiYT]

@@thecpg980 and you get HL2 weapons

[@theprimestskeletron676]

Into the Multiverse 100% released before Portal Stories: Mel. I vividly remember playing it while looking at the Steam page for Mel

[@protoborg]

Nope

[@Kiwi42]

Into the multiverse definitely released before Mel, but it may be because it was released in parts since it was a workshop series. Part 1 was without a doubt released before Mel

[@protoborg]

@@Kiwi42 OK. That's fair.

[@AliYassinToma]

yes but not all of it iirc

[@JacobKinsley]

Portal prelude and Mel are the two mods that genuinely feel Canon (prelude to a lesser extent because of the weird gman Easter eggs) and are also the most fun and challenging

[@asmylia9880]

Same goes for Aperture Tag and TwT-M imo

[@comnome4421]

@@asmylia9880 No, It doens't even connect to the portal history, and I don't feel that's canon

[@ItsAsum]

Honestly in my book, Mel is canon. Everything is perfect in it. Honestly one of the best mods to ever be created for any video game ever. Prism did a phenomenal job. Prelude feels way less canon, but that’s mostly because the scientists testing you had like 0 care for your safety. Not trying to say that aperture cared so much about safety but they pretty much cared for your safety as much as GLaDOS does which doesn’t make sense IMO. Still a good mod and with a bit of changes it can be perfectly canon (in my opinion). Mel was just so perfect though.

[@Heroheenie]

Also Prelude feels less canon because of the memes.

[@DeletedExpiration]

If i were to pick for one to be canon, DEFINITELY mel. it fits way to damn well

[@ianrapp]

1:29 how to make a good transition step one: have a bad pc (or just low FPS) step two: spin really fast step three: now your in another game somehow you done did it

[@lilacalil3931]

i really had hope in repercussions and i hope the developers come back soon and hit us in the face with a big "lol you thought". as for absolute0, its super exciting to see it come together all at the end. max fire and the people helping him have done a really great job with it. its sad to see so many creators stop working on their mods,because most of those mods at the end looked stunning

[@virtualfroggy]

I really hope Absolute0 gets completed, but if it does it will be quite a bit in the future, as its very pre-pre-alpha stage but for the amount that ive played it seems like its doing very well, the most lacking part is the portals themself

[@lilacalil3931]

@@virtualfroggy yeah. ive heard they've had some trouble with the story too. and the mods arent getting along and thres some issues with nobody getting along. apparently some dude leaked the script they had going and it was all pickle jokes lol

[@Rorius]

Hey, thanks for featuring Portal Unity :P It's crazy to see my little mod amongst so many legendary mods hehe

[@BradyAus]

You're very much welcome! Don't let the extent of the mod discourage you, your mod is only as good as you think it is! (And maybe a little better, yes, i'm kind egoist) (also how is Portal Unity Reboot going, we're all holding our breath for it)

[@Rorius]

Well thank you :P The reboot was kinda put on a long hiatus cause of other responsibilities, but I do plan to eventually get "something" released before I die xD

[@sulphurous2656]

I never thought I'd see Portal Unity again. This video was quite the trip down memory lane for the most part.

[@donutmerchant8393]

Hey don’t sell yourself short. You’ve made good stuff like the rest of the greats.

[@Rorius]

Aww, thank you :P You made my day hehe

[@zarnox3071]

Portal has such a creative community. Some community made puzzles are damn hard, too.

[@fadefoad737]

fun fact: in 2:57 if you look in the down corner you can see a message saying "ah its the cursed test chamber"

[@theticksquad8218]

MOD MAKER PREDICTS PORTAL 2!!!!

[@vCavernosa]

Plot twist the dev worked at valve portal team

[@siliconmonday]

Portal 2 came out in 2011 too bud

[@ggtylerr]

It was made after the trailers dropped...

[@SageGilbert191]

@@ggtylerr it was a joke

[@Funrollercoaster606]

I think it was a portal 2 mod to make it look like portal 1.

[@kmarci0620]

He really gave portal stories: Mel, one of the biggest mods for portal 2 about 15 seconds of screen time lol

[@chryst4l926]

It kinda annoyed me that he didnt really show what the mods were about at all most of the time, like boi how am i gonna know what a mod is about when you show me 15 seconds of an elevator ride

[@tal0z391]

He wasn’t trying to explain them, just show an evolution of the mods over the years

[@chryst4l926]

@@tal0z391 yeah but what evolution are you showing at that point, the visuals? Cause imo an evolution of mods should show the mods main feature

[@htg98]

​@@chryst4l926womp womp

[@bobslimytuber9493]

5:54 "Wow, this new Aperture Flight Gel works like a charm!"

[@rainstudios5047]

10:55 chell don't like aperture.avi

[@winelectronic101]

Also, did you know there are many beta mods out? (For the 1st Portal only). And, Chell's Way To Home was featured in the intro but ended up getting skipped over. There is also a Portal-Life mod which is basically altered versions of the portal maps whereas the combine and Xen have taken over APerture.

[@Anklejbiter]

RIP into the multiverse. The original creator lost his hard drive in a house fire and has taken down the project from demotivation.

[@littlebigdragon313]

W H A T

[@Anklejbiter]

@@littlebigdragon313 There are reuploads, but the original series is gone and likely to never return.

[@littlebigdragon313]

@@Anklejbiter what are the re-uploads this all sounds really fun

[@MixedVictor]

duhh if he lost is maps then decompile the release maps using bspsource not accurate but it works

[@billcipher7292]

Idk if that’s sad or funny

[@TheDanZS]

3:36 press f to pay respect for flash and all flash games

[@briandiehl9257]

Since when did they make a 3D flash game?

[@TheDanZS]

@@briandiehl9257 in 2011

[@briandiehl9257]

@@TheDanZS So how have i not heard of this?

[@TheDanZS]

@@briandiehl9257 because idk

[@hotpotatodude3473]

@@briandiehl9257 this is a mod that adds the levels of the flash version of the game in the actual game

[@IroAppe]

That is such a great collection of Mods! So many great mods that I have never heard of. Thank you very much! These are a great inspiration. And so smooth and professional too!

[@BradyAus]

Why thank you! BTW, I don't know it you know this, but that last mod (aperture adventures) is actually mine!

[@COASTER1921]

Don't forget Desolation in the development section! They have a very active community and just released new updates on the project last week.

[@winelectronic101]

Piece of advice for next time, make some of the text actually readable. I could barely tell what some of the titles were saying.

[@donutmerchant8393]

Also please make more content like this. It’s a year old but this video was really good and I think a lot of people would enjoy more content like this considering the view count. Thanks for making a video going over all of this also it’s a fantastic trip down memory lane!

[@KiyoshiHorranin]

13:38 Lorelaine would have become one of those mods with an unusual aesthetic, but the author decided to close it and we will never see the release of this masterpiece :_(

[@jacobh992]

We can't forget Narbacular Drop was a game developed by students who then got hired by Valve and created Portal. I feel like a major reason Valve isn't doing a Portal 3 (besides them not being able to count to 3 lol) and Valve is allowing so many new mods is because that's where they started off. And that's okay. It's the creativity and the passion we have for our games that drives new ideas and new concepts. Who knows, this may be someone's next big break. So to all the game developers, the fans, and the players...keep your heads high and keep dreaming; the possibilities are up to you

[@mrshinsenpai]

Portal reloaded is one of the best portal 2 fan games ever to

[@lim.6535]

Man I wish I had the talent to make mods like some of these. You can see just how hard everyone works together on these.

[@BradyAus]

I can teach you to make certain parts of a mod! Just contact me on discord!

[@lim.6535]

@@BradyAus why thank you! I feel I'm not quite prepared myself as I have a seven year old computer. I'll keep this in mind. It might take a few years more before I can get another but maybe that won't be such a problem.

[@sulphurous2656]

6:10 I never noticed until now you could see your legs in TWTM. I need this feature badly now.

[@PossumOnAVacuum]

I love how this is only recommended after portal reloaded

[@just_martin8002]

Still waiting for Repercussions xD

[@GoldenBeans]

i loved playing "subject X" when it was still mostly vanilla maps with a bit of modding, but the author took them down and replaced them with something completely different, dont remember what exactly extra mechanics it had but the futuristic clean aperture look was awesome

[@SpaceNinja116]

God I remember being so disappointed with After Hours

[@DerCharacter]

It’s kind of sad that Tier 3 never left the ground. The soundtrack Harry created for it was great

[@BradyAus]

Agreed

[@martischa2394]

Fun fact: before i knew portal unity's name is portal unity, i called it "portal blue", and when I search it, it comes blue portals

[@AllisonGhost]

I have updated Valhalla in 2020... Also you missed office prank since you were including map packs

[@BradyAus]

Sorry bout that, I’ll fix it in the next update!

[@user-bd4oc9jt9e]

Oh hey it's Wheatley crab guy.

[@dhaneshabhipraya]

above aperture: volume 200%

[@mineland8220]

Some transitions were pretty smooth doe, but dx 8

[@PiiTheCat]

Even after so many time this community is _still alive_ and strong

[@eduardocarranza4333]

Good pun XD

[@garrold7123]

There's also tons of mods on steam greenlight like destroyed aperture. Just gotta love how they all fucking die and before that we've been built up with hype and great hope and expectations to wait for 10 years so nothing happens

[@dominics.8796]

I would have made more sense to have a pitch black screen during Fanctum Solus. Jumping into that sludge would have been a perfect transition.

[@Bonnie39]

1:04 bro where do you find that? I can't find it anywhere.

[@BradyAus]

mediafire.com/file/2syym25ytuun391/Portal_2_Mod_Maps.zip/file

[@alanmix8183]

@@BradyAus is it a mod for portal 1 or portal 2?

[@elponogris8588]

The perfect song for the perfect vídeo

[@screentimer]

I’m watching this while on the toilet with a sore stomach

[@aaronchurch968]

thank you for the info

[@khaszafcatystan]

Can you give us a link to the mods?

[@user-ez4ir9rv1k]

Just go to the steam workshop

[@Lowmmvii]

So smooth transitions

[@alkroist]

Good video (:

[@hitbyabus4615]

Transitions smoother than a Prince Charming

[@riceniceman548]

Portal Prelude had such a bussin soundtrack mann...

[@Leader7353]

Aperture Tag and Portal Stories Mel are my favorites

[@thousandyardstaree]

Cosmo, Still alive and WUT are my fav.

[@grapsebad5338]

13:27 I followed repercussions closely for a while, shame to think it'll never be finished.

[@Portal2Player]

This is a pretty cool video, and I discovered a lot of new mods from this (Portal Smile, Clone Cubed). Also, will 3.0 ever come out?

[@somerandomdude712]

there is a new portal mod called portal reloaded i think it is? it add a third new unique portal, time.

[@Niyucuatro]

there's a bunch here that i missed when they came out. I'll have to check them

[@lazersword]

I miss these videos.

[@bruuuuuhhhhhhh]

And now portal reloaded

[@zombiehacker1941]

Bruh I Want To Make Mod Where Everything Is In Old Laboratories But I Don't Know How To Mod

[@SageGilbert191]

We need Portal: Reloaded and Portal: Repercussions

[@spottedjedi6710]

what one has the black mesa logo overlayed on the aperture logo? i kinda wanna check it out

[@bananabusboss4527]

There is from what I can tell one outdated Piece of knowledge and that is about Valhalla, as it got a update around May and then had a comment by the creator in December about how it would be playable. Anyways, cool video.

[@redshiftproductions9996]

Really sucks that you couldn’t play Factum Solus, those are some of my favorites.

[@thereal7mood3311]

portal 2 into the multiverse is my favorite

[@ArstotzkaEmpire]

Oh, I know all Portal mods! *video starts* Wait what?

[@sulphurous2656]

10:55 "I hate you so much..."

[@doofusboy7054]

And now Portal Reloaded is out and the new kid on the block

[@kacperfilipek8461]

I think the video would be better if you would have shown some unique mechanics in some of those mods. For example, in "Thinking with Time Machine" part the elements unique to this particular game weren't even there.

[@party.escort-B]

WHAT ARE THESE TRANSITIONS OMG /pos

[@ZMYaro]

Portal: The Flash Version Mappack was released in 2008, not 2011.

[@noname53718]

In begin on video song from «Portal : Prelude»

[@levigaming-1]

I’m currently playing aperture tag while watching this

[@BradyAus]

Noice!

[@nameplays]

Portal 2 was released on my birthday!

[@losfrail6142]

3:00 Triple lazer!

[@KnightoftheSorryFace]

Without narbacular drop none of this would exist

[@steepslopesmm2]

portal epic edition

[@harvestercommander3250]

Kind of wish there was more sounds of the actual games themselves.

[@joshtrashcontent4237]

Everybody gangsta til T R I P L E L A S E R

[@YishaiBarr]

A lot of good mods were missed out. But there are a lot of them. It would probably be difficult to put them all in. Also, with the Portal 2 workshop, the distinction between mods and mappacks is pretty thin. Mods just allow you to do more and bigger things that you can't upload to the workshop.

[@robk5969]

just wait for portal 3, made in source2, with ray tracing + enough particles to make your computer melt (release year: 999999 99999 999999999)

[@notaverygooddev883]

Good Music.

[@22Bence22]

2021 april Portal Reloaded

[@Fluffaye]

We may have forgotten portal reloaded

[@Caseofgames]

That wasn’t even out yet.

[@Rissa_1322]

There's a mod just to make. Portal 1 look like portal 2?did I get that right? That's so interesting for no reason.

[@bazicperzanity4771]

Narbaciular drop was a game inspired by portal 2 which is nice

[@bazicperzanity4771]

Search it up

[@bazicperzanity4771]

half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Narbacular_Drop

[@average7557]

actually valve got inspired by narbacular drop, not the digipen students.

[@opera_ghost8504]

agh, was looking away from the screen and missed the warning, looked back just in time to get jump scared orz

[@abangjagoan1370]

1 year ago i wonder if the mods are still active but i think if you do this again maybe put a link in the desc

[@yellowdude9425]

Stories Mel is definitely my favorite

[@carolinafabianagonzalez3711]

and... 2021 Portal Reloaded :)

[@andrey_sviridov]

Cool

[@windows10technicalpreview]

how did you make smooth portals (without waves)?

[@emperordalek102]

Are you sure you guys need a portal 3 because there are so many of them.

[@quintongordon6024]

You need to do an updated version with portal 3 nvm I was just dreaming

[@hisho-bh3lz]

in portal.exe i skiped to the jumpscare without knowing that is a jumpscare and i freked out

[@gopackerscho]

Did you notice the sign that says “oh look it’s that cursed chamber”

[@umarwa1222]

4:53 nice

[@Soulfur]

2:57 guys something is wrong with this video

[@auslanderauslander2941]

2:57 Guys i think something is wrong with my Test chamber