The progress is saved in an external appvar, so as long as the versions continue to use the same save format, you should never lose your progress when you update to a newer version And thats good to hear that it works now!

http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/14/148/148116.html

Congrats Builderboy and awesome interview

(Someone should put mention the interview in the first post (as an edit)

I showed this game to my friends in school and they all loved it
Congrats again

Yayy super excite for the feature It's too bad I have to wait a whole year to be in the contest for POTY though

Yeah i think the cutoff date was December 1st. Some years, the cutoff date is late November when the POTY is announced then, while sometimes they choose to wait after Dec 1st if the POTY news arrive late.

Also the following pic was from 2005, a few days after xLIB xLIB Revolution made Engadget front page. Back then, it peaked at 2800 downloads in a week, 1 more than VTI:



Now look at what Portal Prelude managed to do in even less time!

the game

the game

And nice to see it on Clubic. I wonder if it ever made Engadget, since I didn't see it there. Usually blogs can take a few weeks before picking it up (like nDoom). At least hopefully the Portal fanbase isn't similar to standard FPSes though

The funny thing is how some people say they want you to port the game to the PC exactly as it is, with no graphical improvement, because they like the old-skoolness of it, and other people say they like it more than other 2D clones because the story seems more developed. Might want to wait for a full PC port, though, so the calc gets enough time to have its share of attention. It would be nice to see a TI-Nspire, 84PCSE and Casio PRIZM port, though...

I think clubic was talking about http://portalprelude.com :S

Well they posted a video of my game, so I don't see how there could be a mistake

Unless they mistook your game as a calc port of Portal Prelude. I didn't even know there was already something called Portal Prelude until someone mentionned it in comments somewhere.

You could say they are related, as the computer version also takes place before GlaDOS was hooked up, but there are story differences as well as the computer version has a more developed ending.

You could say it was inspired, but I had already started working on Portal when I came across that mod. I think the fact that we were both working across the same premise led to similarities in the story, although I will admit the small cut-scene near the middle was definitely directly inspired by a similar event that takes place in the mod.