Puzzle Creator

The Puzzle Creator (also known as Puzzle Maker or Editor) is a Portal 2 feature released on May 8th, 2012, allowing the creation of single-player test chambers within an in-game map editor. The Puzzle Creator was first mentioned within The Final Hours of Portal 2, "[An in-game level browser won't be of much use unless] Valve figures out how to make designing Portal 2 maps an easier process. It has a plain there too, it comes in the form of a simplified level editor [...] a Photoshop for test chambers".

The Puzzle Creator does not have a single official name; Valve published a blog post on the October 27, 2011 referring to the editor as the "Puzzle Creator", later referred to it on the blog post of April 27, 2012 as "Puzzle Maker" and simply call it "Editor" in-game.

Usable Testing Devices

• Weighted Storage Cube
• Weighted Companion Cube
• Discouragement Redirection Cube
• Edgeless Safety Cube
• Frankenturret
• Heavy Duty Super-Colliding Super Button
• Switch
• Weighted Storage Cube Receptacle
• Edgeless Safety Cube Receptacle
• Thermal Discouragement Beam emitter, catcher and sensor
• Aerial Faith Plate
• Excursion Funnel
• Hard Light Bridge
• Panel which can rotate in 180° to make it "portalable"
• Panel which can move to a 30/45/60/90° angle
• A group of panels which moves to make a stair
• Light
• "Stalker chamber"
• Goo
• Repulsion Gel
• Propulsion Gel
• Conversion Gel
• Cleaning Gel

Gallery

Pre-release

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  Announcement screenshot #1
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  Announcement screenshot #2