Alan Galey, Ellen Forget and Brendan Allen, eds. “ApertureScience.com: A Critical Edition”

There was a time when Portal, the first-person puzzle-platformer video game developed by Valve, was everywhere. My younger daughter once dressed for Halloween as Chell, the game’s avatar-character, wandering the neighborhood with a ponytail and carrying a modified Super Soaker water gun as her Aper...

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מחבר ראשי: Jones, Steven E.
פורמט: Article ou chapitre numérique
שפה:Anglais
יצא לאור: Variants 2025
גישה מקוונת:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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סיכום:There was a time when Portal, the first-person puzzle-platformer video game developed by Valve, was everywhere. My younger daughter once dressed for Halloween as Chell, the game’s avatar-character, wandering the neighborhood with a ponytail and carrying a modified Super Soaker water gun as her Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device (or Portal Gun). Cosplay like this, fan wikis, the grass-roots popularity of the closing-credits song (“Still Alive”) and the meme-like virality of the catchphra...