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Ido TalWe Create Stuff

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About me

Ido Tal, 16

High-school student

A true gamer

Years of interest and experience with Flash and web development

Independent game developer

Founder of We Create Stuff

Co-creator of the Flash game Portal: The Flash Version – together with Hen Mazolski

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Portal: TFV (The Flash Version)

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Portal: TFV - Background

Based on Valve’s game Portal

Started as an excitement of Valve’s expected game and its concept

Valve’s Portal wasn’t out, so we decided to make our own version of the concept

Using our familiar environment:

Macromedia Flash 8

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Portal: TFV - Background

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Portal: TFV - Development

Technical details:

Pure Macromedia Flash 8 product

Coding in ActionScript 2.0, from scratch

Took about a couple of months to develop

Development

Engine, physics

Art, animation

Script, maps

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Portal: TFV - Development

First momentum concept running

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Portal: TFV - Development

Momentum concept running today

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Portal: TFV - Development

Level 24 sketch

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Portal: TFV - Development

Level 24 today

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Portal: TFV - Development

Task doors

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Portal: TFV - Development

Cubes’ physical weight can be used in order to solve some puzzles

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Portal: TFV - Development

Console

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Portal: TFV - Development

Multiple features responding to one another

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Portal: TFV - Success

Hits

Played over 5 million times worldwide (estimation)

Newgrounds: 2,000,000 plays

Kongregate: 500,000 plays

Armor Games: 500,000 plays

Other Flash sites: > 2,000,000 plays

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Portal: TFV - Success

Recognition

Awards

Newgrounds Daily, Weekly and Monthly prize,

Kongregate Weekly and Monthly prize

References

PC world - Game On, blog

The New York Times - Politics, Spreadsheets and More Are All Grist for the (Free) Game Mill

CNET, Crave - The ten most addictive online flash games ever made

Kotaku – Hot Flashes

And many more

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Codename ‘Galil’

Concept

Real-time strategy game

Sidescroller Shooter

Modes:

RTS – Command your army, gain resources, construct your base and eliminate the enemy

Shooter – Support your army in the battle, power up the hero, gain new abilities, command local platoons

Media:

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Codename ‘Galil’

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Codename ‘Galil’

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Codename ‘Galil’

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