lost in games

Wouldn’t it be great if Portal had co-op? Basically it is important for players to talk to one another and co-ordinate their actions. It is still just a rough idea but here are some suggestions on how it could work.

• Each player will have a different shape/size so that he can only access his own two portals and not that of his partner e.g. cube vs ball or tall and thin vs short and fat­. This way you don’t have four portals.
• Continuing the above thought. What if each player is holding the portal gun which only the other player can access. i.e. Player cube opens ball shaped portals for the ball shaped player. Then co-ordination between the two players will increase as each player will direct the other on when and where to open the portal. Imagine those moments in Portal where you flying through the air to open portals on the next level platform.
• Simultaneous actions to pull off (two portal guns) like switches or balancing levers or exploding platforms. For example, imagine a platform which can only be stepped on if there is one player at the same time on each side thus balancing the platform.
• Stages where one player is imprisoned or trapped and needs to escape with the help of the other. For example one player cannot go out of a certain perimeter because the platform will explode or because of a laser fence.
• Player 1 sees things which Player 2 cannot. For example switches, boxes, and other items. This means that once the two players enter the room, they will need to talk about what each player sees and thus have a complete picture of the room.

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