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Podcast: Software Engineering Daily
Episode: Portal 64 with James Lambert
Description: Portal is a 2007 game developed by Valve, where the player encounters puzzles that must be solved using the "portal gun", a device that can create inter-spatial portals between surfaces.Portal 64 is an open-source re-write of Portal that can be run on original Nintendo 64 hardware. The game was developed by James Lambert and gained enormous praise as a technical and creative achievement. The project was ended in 2024 at the request of Valve.James joins the show to talk about the process of developing an N64 games, the toolchain for building Portal 64, its physics engine, the design...