Portal: *does everything in its power to make the player feel isolated*
Portal: you're alone
Me, with tears in my eyes: like hell i am.
*only kill turrets when I have to, otherwise picking them up and carefully putting them against the wall.*
*presses E on Rattman's handprints to press my hand to his*
*Calls every single thing in the game "buddy", even wallpanels*
*arrange cans into the shape of an heart in the Exile Vilify room*
Doug Rattmann would be a cool wolf (I love that man)
This ask just made me wonder what he'd actually look like as a dog, so here it is, Doug Rattman!Wolf au. He's a huskyWolf Mix who vocalises a LOT and has a little stuffed heart he carries with him.
I struggle a lot with drawing animals on some days, especially cats / dogs. Making cool looking markings also is rough, and I couldn't really get into the nitty gritty of this, I drew this at work LOL so i had to be quick!
You cant see it here but he'd have a scruffy little patch of fur under his chin like a beard
During playtests for Portal, users reported finding doors and passageways that lead them to “out of bounds” areas of the facility. One user reportedly found an “exit” in Test Chamber 18 and was able to photograph several areas and chambers they found. They reported that once a developer noticed where they were in game, they were pulled away from their computer and told that their time was up. No recorded gameplay exists and none of these areas have been found in Portal’s retail build.
It is rumored the player’s recorded time out of bounds was 5 hours, 23 minutes.
From me to @owlbaron , Happy Holidays and enjoy your @portal-secret-santa !!
I hope you like this little snippet into Chell and Wheatley exploring the many spots through Aperture, like a Rattman den. It was a lot of fun to work on this one!
(Also added a timelapse of the whole piece below the read more!)
So this might be a bit of a complicated question, but you know how the Bring Your Daughter To Work Day display has Chell's name on it? To me that seems to indicate that Chell was a child when GLaDOS neurotoxined everyone, but the Lab Rat comic seems to indicate otherwise, listing Chell as a test subject volunteer meaning she would have been an adult. So is this just an inconsistency or do you have any lore/theories that can square that circle, so-to-speak?
*cracks knuckles*
bring your daughter to work day is simply an annual event at aperture
the thing is is that Chell's potato science experiment has to have been made PRIOR to Cave Johnson's death, BECAUSE:
Here's young Chell writing about Cave Johnson on the placard behind her Potato Science Experiment, perfectly clear as day, literally showing that Chell saw Cave Johnson and him talking about how the kids could use as many potatoes as they'd like for their experiments. Cave had to be physically present at the Bring Your Daughter To Work Day that Chell attended.
In Portal 2, the Prototype Chassis Room you find at the end of Coop Course 6, which was the original GLaDOS chassis Cave Johnson was originally meant to be transferred into, is dated to have been made in 1989, meaning Cave dies prior to that point, and thus then places the Potato Science Experiments to come from the 1980's.
If you actually stop and analyse the area you find these Potato Science Experiments at, it actually matches the style direction that you see in the 1980's dated offices later in Portal 2 while you're in Test Shaft 09, same type of plaster and wall columning:
Plus, in the 1980's, we know that Aperture Science had started to invent the Modern, futuristic form of their technology, such as their modern Cubes and Buttons:
So simply put - the area we pass through in Portal 2 is not THE Bring Your Daughter To Work Day from 2003 that causes Aperture Science to be gassed by GLaDOS, it's a Bring Your Daughter To Work Day from over 20 years prior to the incident. Wheatley just easily seems to conflate it with the main BYDTWD incident due to how terrible the disaster was.
And I don't think I need to spell it out, but I will regardless - 20 years is more than enough time for Chell to grow up into an adult who would later apply to be a Test Subject at Aperture Science.
So there, there's the answer to that question.
TLDR; It's just a different Bring Your Daugther To Work Day from 20 years ago.
missed last year's Annual Doug Rattmann Portrait bc of art block from hell, had to make up for it 🥲
played around with CSP's shading assist tool for this, which was neat! I have a speedpaint video showing a little bit of it (except I started the recording after I'd already started painting, oops lol) over on my instagram!