Process
Build Process
The Portals themselves went through several iterations.. From its humble beginning as an ikea end table with a monitor and a desk lamp to the placeholder mdf boxes to the final plywood and acrylic Portals they are today. I kept a fairly updated build log on the blog, but the abridged version comes across in […]
Pre-Portal Explorations
In the beginning, before there were portals, there were a lot of other experiments. These are a few of the many. The First Person Creator is clearly where the seed from which Portals came to be. But I really do think all the experiments had nuggets of useful discoveries which got rolled into the final […]
Kickstarter Campaign
As part of my process I created a Kickstarter campaign to raise funding for the project and get feedback on the idea in its early stages. The campaign successfully surpassed its goal and helped the project gain some publicity as it was featured on the Kickstarter homepage and on various blogs. Part of the fun was also […]