Portal: The Flash Version

Portal: The Flash Version

Basic Information

Developer:	We Create Stuff
Publisher:	We Create Stuff
Distributor:	We Create Stuff Armor Games Newgrounds
Engine:	Adobe Flash
Modes:	Singleplayer
Genre:	Two Dimensional Puzzle Platformer
Ratings:	88 on Armor games
Platforms:	Laptop Desktop
Requirements:	Flash Player 8 and up (or any third-party Flash player that supports it, e.g. Flashpoint or Ruffle) Flash Player Global Storage 10kb Game resolution 800x450 Decent/Competent CPU

Portal: The Flash Version is a two dimensional game made with Adobe Flash based on Valve's Portal. It features the same environment and testing elements as Portal does, while even introducing some new features of its own. This game has also been recreated into the Portal Software Development Kit (Source SDK) and released as a Map-Pack. Some of the levels are included in the XBOX Live Arcade version of Portal, Portal: Still Alive. Some of the levels and mechanics used in this mod have also been "borrowed" over into a few other Map-Packs, or "Mods". This can most commonly be found in the Portal: Prelude mod, which uses the Electricity Field and a few of the levels used in the flash version.

Despite the Flash plugin being deprecated and disabled across browsers at December 2020, this game is still playable.

• Ruffle is a browser extension that allows the user to access Flash content, including this game by extension.
• Flashpoint is an application that added Portal: The Flash Version to its library on January 12th, 2019.
• Users who happen to still own old versions of Flash and downloaded files of PTFV can continue to play offline through that method.

Overview

Screenshot of the Main menu

The game starts with the words "Good morning subject 15837. It is time to begin your test." after which the first "task" (which is what the game familiarizes the test chambers as) starts with the use of the ASHPD or Portal Gun. The text on top of the screen suggests that the subject might not be familiar with the facility, but explains that they need to exit the rooms. The first task where the player can be killed in is Task: 10, where a ledge the player needs to Portal over is introduced. The first encounter with a dangerous mechanic happens in Task: 11, with a modified "Crusher" used in the trailer for Portal. Most of these tasks do not require precise timing, except for a few tasks featuring the High Energy Pellet (known as Combine Balls in the Half-Life Universe) or the dangerous "Electricity Field", that lights up for four seconds at a time and then pauses for three seconds.

Items and Mechanics

The game uses most of the mechanics that are used in the original Portal, but it also uses some scrapped and totally new mechanics as well. Here is a list of the mechanics that weren't used in the original Portal but made it to Portal 2 from the flash version. Portal: Still Alive, being largely based off of the MapPack and thus the Flash Version, includes all of the features introduced in those titles.

Item or Mechanic	Task	Portal	Portal: Still Alive	Portal 2
Security Camera	All Tasks
Crusher	Task 11			Modified
Unstationary Scaffold	Task 12			Modified
Electricity Fields	Task 13
Blue Plasma Wall	Task 16			Modified
Red Plasma Wall	Task 18
Button	Task 19
Energy ball	Task 21
Storage Cube	Task 25
Turret	Task 29

Controls

Left Mouse Button - Shoot Portals
A W D - Move
Q - Launch a Blue Portal
E - Launch a Yellow Portal
R - Close Portals
F - Pick up an Object
~ - Open up Developer Console (Can be Enabled Through the Settings)
O - Quick Quality Adjust
Esc or P - Pause the Game

Console

This game also includes an in-game console available through the options in the main menu, and can be opened by pressing ~. Some commands include:

noclip
god
gravity #
restartlevel
nextlevel
prevlevel
gotolevel #
createbox
createturret
createball
removebox
removeturret
use
help
commandlist
showlist
showcommand

Tasks

Screenshots of the tasks

Screenshot of task #01, "Meet the ASHPD."   Screenshot of task #02   Screenshot of task #03   Screenshot of task #04, "Portal-Proof walls."   Screenshot of task #05   Screenshot of task #06, "ASHPD+Momentum."   Screenshot of task #07   Screenshot of task #08   Screenshot of task #09   Screenshot of task #10, "You are not invincible."   Screenshot of task #11   Screenshot of task #12   Screenshot of task #13   Screenshot of task #14   Screenshot of task #15   Screenshot of task #16, "Anti-Object."   Screenshot of task #17   Screenshot of task #18   Screenshot of task #19, "Red Buttons."   Screenshot of task #20

Screenshot of task #21, "Energy Balls."   Screenshot of task #22   Screenshot of task #23   Screenshot of task #24   Screenshot of task #25, "Cubes."   Screenshot of task #26   Screenshot of task #27   Screenshot of task #28   Screenshot of task #29, "They can shoot you."   Screenshot of task #30   Screenshot of task #31   Screenshot of task #32   Screenshot of task #33, "Think with portals."   Screenshot of task #34   Screenshot of task #35   Screenshot of task #36   Screenshot of task #37   Screenshot of task #38   Screenshot of task #39   Screenshot of task #40

Trivia

• One of the things that made Portal: The Flash Version viral is the preservation of momentum. Even though it is a 2D game, preservation of momentum is very hard to code in practice.
• In task 16 as the player is passing the first Blue plasma wall, a character carrying a briefcase (presumably The G-Man from the Half-Life series) can be seen walking behind the window.

External links

• We Create Stuff, the creators of the game

Play

Online Links

• On armorgames.com
• On www.newgrounds.com
• On portal.wecreatestuff.com (doesn't work in some browsers)

Flash Alternatives

• Get Flashpoint
• Get Ruffle