Overall interesting map, only thing I didn't like was the part where you had to grab the cube through the fizzler and give it enough time to not be fizzled. Maybe a little bit of a visual cue such as an red marking on the ground or even light shining in that area could help give a little more context to this mechanic you're trying to introduce given this is the first map and all.

Great challenge.

Second laser puzzle is already an Act 8 difficulty puzzle. Map maker clearly has no idea what they're doing putting such a difficult level on LEVEL 0. WHAT FRUITCAKE MADE THIS MAP??

Obvious softlock trap: if you open a blue portal in the first orange portal (powered by a pedestal button) with a cube dispenser, no emergency measure will happen

Blindrun
Not too hard but not a total walk in the park either. Good balance. Reminds me of the difficulty I had solving some of the official tests that appeared later in both games the first time.

My only issue with anything is the fact that it’s not clear how to spawn the cube in the last puzzle. Half of the time was me looking around trying to figure out how to get that cube - I even thought the map might actually be broken because it didn’t auto-spawn. Maybe that was the point. 😅But if it were me I would have had something big fall from that button platform, or put clearer signage, highlighted it somehow, or something.

Difficulty: 4/10
Enjoyed: 7.5/10

very frustrating

Needed a bit of walking around to see where the heck do I go and what the heck do I do (and some of those pedestal buttons can be hard to spot), but wow, nice puzzle. I'll admit I solved the light bridge part way quicker than I otherwise would've, because I spotted a move I've already solved in Mel... :P

The moment where you grab the laser cube through the fizzler to disable the fizzler before the cube is destroyed was a bit hairy (is this even intended?) and angling the lasers around in the last room was a bit much, but a very nice puzzle overall.

Great

How do you solve this one? There is no portal gun and it seems there's no way out of the room.

MOST ANNOYING TEST EVER

My favorite map Ive played yet. Challenging but not overboard. Amazing! First one played from you and Im excited!

Nice and simple

Are the portal colors switched for anyone else once they get the dual portal device (left click fires orange and right click fires blue?)

Nice job very challenging but nice.

he MADE PORTAL STORE MEL

Did I play this before? I think so but I was a noob at the time I certainly did not get to last room.

great map!!

MY GOD! This is amazing! unfortunately the last of your chambers that remained unplayed

Creative puzzles with just as creative solutions, but very finnicky and requires frustrating micro adjustments or multiple attempts to solve.

Grabbing the cube through the fizzler in the second test is an interesting mechanic to work into the solution, but it's a little bit janky. It took me way too long to figure out that I could do that without disintegrating the cube, because that's what happened every time I tried it until I positioned myself correctly. Extremely finicky for a required step.

Great map, challenging in a different way than I'm used too.

Good map, but you can kind of break the first map by using the cube to jump up the ledge (with the help of the wall sticking out), then end up going through without taking the portal gun. Granted, you'd have to do this on purposely knowingly skipping taking the portal gun :P

Amazing!

Second area problem: When I get a hold of the two reflective cubes, I direct the laser into the port with the star (the one that opens the portal leading to the other half of the portal gun) the previous orange portal leading to the laser itself shuts off and a new one doesn't open... am I doing something wrong?

too much leading around.

Good puzzle, though two things stuck out to me that Valve does that's absent here.

1. Clearly conveying information to the player.
In the third area, where you have the light bridge, I had no idea how to get the cube, because the ledge where you fling yourself up to looked like scenery to me, and I only realized to get the cube from there when I got desperate.

2. Rules should be consistent throughout.
In the area with orange portal gun, I tried to place a portal on the wall across from the gun in hopes to use the cube (still behind the glass) to open the portal to the gun. As soon as I tried to do that though the orange portal fizzled out, and any attempts of doing it from anywhere else caused the portal to fizzle out. This doesn't happen at all in the vanilla game, so throwing this in was not only really furstrating but added about 7 more mintues of banging my head against the desk trying to figure out how to solve the puzzle in your way.

A very chalenging chamber, but a very enjoyable one

where do I get such things as in this level

Got stuck :(

Well thought out series of chambers. Played 0 & 1 so far and I find they require more than average thinking in order to solve. Looking forward to the rest.

Great puzzle, beautiful and fun and not too hard :)

A well-made and rather difficult puzzle. Well done!

I enjoyed the puzzle. Nothing beyond easy-medium other than finding that hidden pedestal button. How about an antline or some indication of where the button is? Regardless, very nice hammer work and nice puzzle overall.

I found it. Wow, that is ridiculously hidden.

What drops the laser cube in the second room?

That took me longer than I care to admit, but it was definitely enjoyable to solve.

Hey, that was pretty fun.

Well, always learning. Thanks to previous commentors about cubes and fizzlers. Great map, thanks!

that took hours. 11/10

here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFY6ZljYe1M

GREAT PUZZLE !!! :)

Beautiful looking puzzles. The only thing I didn't like was the last puzzle. I solved it ok but I had mixed feelings about the portal shut off trying to send a laser to the second cube using a portal.. The programming for that condition is impressive to prevent a unintended solution. It looks unneeded to me. It may be better to place walls to block angles to the star sinage laser catcher than to use panel shut of trickery. I've seen puzzle maps that use flickering lights to catch the attention of players.

OH MY #@%$!@ GOD! I've been stuck on this test for AGES! now thats its done i can get on my life and with the next 6 chambers :) ... im boned arn't I?

8/10 :)

I hate you, creator. But thank you.

Interesting puzzle my friend.

Interesting that a glitch in Portal's physics, being able to touch a cube that's on the other side of a fizzler without touching the fizzler, is built into a puzzle as a required part of the solution. If you didn't know that was possible, you could spend a very, very long time wracking your brain. The fizzler is not supposed to be like a laser field in that regard.

Why?

wow, this was a good one, it's nice to keep making progress, even if it's just a little as you go. I did get stuck once, but thanks to ik's comment about having the reflector cube near the emansapation grill in the 2nd part and grabing it without touching the grill i got passed that part (idk if that's what I was supposed to do, but it was the only thing i could see working). Other than that, I made baby steps here and there and eventually solved it. 8/10

Holy wow, this one made me think hard. In the final room I was like "I can do that, but I can't do that at the same time" but when I thought things through, the solution was pretty easy to find.