{"id":796,"date":"2023-04-11T16:29:28","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T16:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalgoodplay.com\/?p=796"},"modified":"2023-04-13T09:17:27","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T09:17:27","slug":"portal-writer-on-what-it-would-take-to-make-a-3rd-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalgoodplay.com\/?p=796","title":{"rendered":"Portal Writer on What It would Take to Make a 3rd Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Valve has often been teased for being a studio that never makes third games, but that doesn\u2019t mean that fans can\u2019t be hopeful. What\u2019s interesting is, <em>Portal <\/em>writer Erik Wolpaw actually wants to push forward with a third game, but the ball is ultimately on Valve\u2019s court.<\/p>\n<p>Talking to <em>My Perfect Console podcast<\/em> (via PC Gamer) Wolpaw explained that it\u2019s up to Valve developers to commit to making <em>Portal 3<\/em>. He explains, <em>\u201cIn a flat structure like Valve, there is an opportunity cost to doing anything. Whatever is going on at Valve right now requires the dedication and participation of the people working on it\u2014and it\u2019s voluntary.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Portal 2<\/em> had come out way back in 2011, and though the premise of the games are simple, a lot of fans have been praising its very simple, yet original gameplay loop. Even now, the fandom for <em>Portal<\/em> manages to keep things alive with multiple memes and all kinds of fanart and cosplay.<\/p>\n<p>If anything, it feels like Valve is stubbornly sticking to its rule of making no more than one sequel for a game. Besides <em>Portal<\/em>, the studio is still being hounded by fans online for a third <em>Half-Life<\/em> game or a sequel for <em>Left 4 Dead 2<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t know what a third <em>Portal<\/em> game could be about, but with Wolpaw clear about moving forward, hopefully Valve would give him a chance to develop a third game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valve has often been teased for being a studio that never makes third games, but that doesn\u2019t mean that fans can\u2019t be hopeful. What\u2019s interesting is, Portal writer Erik Wolpaw actually wants to push forward with a third game, but the ball is ultimately on Valve\u2019s court. Talking to My Perfect Console podcast (via PC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalgoodplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalgoodplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalgoodplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalgoodplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalgoodplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globalgoodplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":988,"href":"https:\/\/globalgoodplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions\/988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalgoodplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalgoodplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalgoodplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalgoodplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}