Employees of the «Bombora» publishing house showed the cover of the book «Portal. Cube, Cake, and Artificial Intelligence» (Portal o la ciencia del videojuego) by Eva Sid Martinez — a Spanish writer, journalist, and video game developer.
The Portal series has left an indelible mark on the history of video games: it has changed not only the ways of presenting information, but also the very form of interaction between the player and the game. This book shows how the Valve franchise became a complete work — how it was created and improved through observation, data analysis, experiments, testing, and surveys.
Readers will have the opportunity to understand how a student project turned into a cult puzzle, what the principle of «less is more» is, why a player in a relaxed state learns better, how the song Still Alive breaks the fourth wall, and what GLaDOS has to do with it.
When the pre-order for the book will open and how much you will have to pay for it, unfortunately, is not yet known.