Portal - Still Alive

by Liquidream

Portal - Still Alive

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Hope you like it and don't forget: the cake is a lie!

(P.S. - The original game music was done by Jonathan Coulton)

References used:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6ljFaKRTrI
• https://www.vgmusic.com/file/bfae50e09af58a8f4415968b79464346.html
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAgJRLXGc8k
• https://onlinesequencer.net/49966

Holy crap. Just.... holy crap. This is so good. :D

（ ^_^） and then I saw my nick in there ヽ(´▽`)/

and, really, thanks for the wake-up call, might be YEARS since I pulled a portal gun trigger! where's my steam shortcut again?

This is crazy, dude! I love it!

:( Guess I'll go eat worms.

Really nice work though! I thought about it once, but I'm a musical luddite. I wouldn't have done it remotely the justice you have, so I'm glad you did it. Good job reducing it to what works on Pico.

This is such a great tribute! The Pico-8 community is truly one of the best groups of kind and creative people and I'm very proud to be apart of it.

Thank you for making this :D

Thank you, very GLaD you liked it - 'twas fun to make! :D

(Sorry Felice/PixelCod - knew I'd forget some ppl, I'm sure there are plenty others as well, D'Oh!)

Ageed, while the BBS has kinda slowed a bit, the overall PICO-8 community remains strong and awesome. So, I wanted to give a little something back!

Stay awesome everyone! now where's that cake :D

No worries, Liquid, I was just taking the opportunity to be dramatic.

I'm not even angry. I'm being so sincere right now.

;)

:D :D :D :D

(I proper belly-laughed at this - PERFECT!)

amazing, too bad I'm not in it, but good job anyway, I love that song

I always thought for some reason that one of the Turrets was singing this song. Now as I read into the lyrics more, I think it's actually Glad0s singing... hmm.

aw thanks for the shout-out, pico-8 pal! :>

Good work on the cover! I love the scanline art :)

@DerpsMcPineapple

Indeed, it's GLaDOS. That's really what makes the song for me. It's touching and frightening at the same time.

People who have played Portal 2 may not know this about the so-called Turret Opera, because it's not sung in English, but the lyrics are very meaningful and reveal an important element of the story. I won't say anything here, because spoilers, but for those who are done with Portal 2, it's well worth looking up a translation + explanation.

Thanks again all, much appreciated :o)
(again - sorry for those I missed)

@DerpsMcPineapple:
Yup, what @Felice said - couldn't have said it better myself! ;o)

I still wish I could've had mixed case in the lyrics, because one of my favourite lines is:

• "But I'm GLaD I got burned,"

...and it's just perfect coming from her. :o)

You can if you edit the .p8 externally, though everything's inverted - capitals will print in lowercase. Just don't save the .p8 in pico-8 afterwards, or it'll revert everything to lowercase again. exporting html/pngs will (should?) keep those changes though.

I think he meant due to spacing concerns?

Oh right, I forgot this doesn't use the default font. Please ignore me.

It actually is using the default font. It's just converting all characters to their smallcaps version before calling print(). You can see this in the innermost loop at the bottom of the source code. It's a clever way to fit more text vertically.

Felice et al.:
Correct. I'm using a helpful "smallcaps" routine (that someone else made - alas I forget who), coz I used it previously in SCUMM-8 and thought it looked cooler.

The fact that it also meant I could then squeeze more verse lines in (being about 3 pixels smaller in height than "regular" case) was a juicy bonus! :D