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It’s been described as “ Half-Life fanfiction”, but since it’s written by one of the main creator of the series, it could be considered canon. This portrayal is far more personal, though, and dives into the character’s psyche and explores his motivations.īreenGrub is not a comic, but rather a Twitter account maintained by Valve writer Marc Laidlaw. Tenacity is a two-part Portal fancomic by artist Raintalker. Much like LAB RAT, it offers a behind-the-scenes view of events through the eyes of Doug Rattman. It explains the events of Portal through the perspective of the mysterious unseen character that leads Chell through the guts of Aperture in the game. It features the wonderful art of Andrea Wicklund and was written by Valve’s own Eric Wolpaw. LAB RAT is an official one-shot Portal comic, published by Valve. It’s an unapologetic romp of old-style heroics. The escapism is fun and never comes across as self-indulgent. The Adventures of Hercule Cubbage is a Garry’s Mod comic reminiscent of vintage boys’ adventure comics. Duke Nukem and Doom Marine are roomates who occasionally have adventures with Walter the scientist. Though it wasn’t about Half-Life specifically, it featured retro FPS characters interacting and getting up to shenanigans. Strife Strips was a sprite comic than ran from 2000 to 2007. Although she is no longer active on the Internet, some of her comics have been archived. They portray characters and scenes from the games in humorous and off-the-wall ways. “With a bigger team, we hope we can integrate new puzzles, more unique VR-friendly mechanics and vastly improved assets,” the description for the addon explains.Click on the titles to be taken to the comic sites.Īrtist Shuvuuia was a beloved Half-Life cartoonist back in the mid-00s. The first playable demo of the addon for Half-Life: Alyx was put together by four people in less than a month and features more than 200 models that are ported or new, according to the creators, and they’re offering the ApertureVR Source Pack with “prefabs, models, scripts, maps and more that allows creators to design more custom test chambers in VR.” Last year we looked at another mod that let you walk through a Portal 2 map and pick up some items, but this latest one actually offers a bit of gameplay and its creators hope it can serve as the basis of much more. There’s no portal gun here, there’s only four test chambers and we were only able to successfully complete the first two - there seemed to be a progression bug with the third one at the time of this writing. The mod is called ApertureVR – Thinking Without Portals and it does a fantastic job recreating the look, feel and sound of Valve’s classic Portal 2 adapted with Half-Life: Alyx’s gravity gloves to pull cubes over to you. A new addon for Half-Life: Alyx offers a couple test chambers inspired by Portal 2 that you can solve in VR without a portal gun.
