Yeah, the puzzles were never really based upon stacking them, more about getting the boxes from here to there, which was such a big part of the original that i knew i had to include it one way or the other ^_^

Sounds awesome! I still need to finish the first one >.> haha. Hope the progress turns out to be relatively easy for ya

Keep up the good work!

Woot, so i have a break in my busy schedual to bring you guys a new screenshot of what i have been working on I have successfully implemented the new map decompresser into my Portal code, so along with support for more tiles, it also has dynamic tile rendering.  What this means basically is that you can have simple map design, but the map displayer will make it look a lot better.  For example the tiles that you cant shoot portals onto would normal take up over 10 different types of tiles, but with the dynamic map display routine it only needs one

I also did some rewrite with the physics code to give each tile some different attributes:

Solid:Whether or not you can walk through it
Portal Solid: Whether or not you can shoot portals throught it
Portal Support: Whether or not you can make portals on it
Deadly: Whether or not touching a tile kills you

So with this new system i have added some kewl new tiles.  Lasers, which are filed like tiles that kill you, but you can shoot portals through them.  Fields, which you can pass through but you cant shoot portals through.  And spikes, which just kill you Fields will also clear any portals you have set out when you pass through them, although this isnt in the screenshot below

Wow! That looks awesome! Great to see progress on this (and a lot as it would seem ) Only thing I notice in that screenshot that seems off is when you hit the spikes and the remains seem to pass all the way through that block. But still very cool Can't wait for more updates

Cool!  Also, I noticed that you got the portals to animate at different speeds, very nice.

Thanks guys I've been workin on trying to get it as close to the real portal as possible, and I honk it's getting there.  As of now there is 4500 byes of source which compiles to about 8000 bytes, which is 75% larger, but it does contain a lot of sprite data.  I'm going to need to switch to mirage soon once I start implementing an object system for plasma and boxes.

And yeah, right now death is very simple, there might even be different death animations for differen deaths in the future but for now I'm sticking with the basic guts death

I personally loved the death animation