The book "Portal. Cube, Cake, and Artificial Intelligence", which tells about how one of Valve's franchises turned into a complete and mature work, does not yet have a release date in Russia, but you can already study its cover now.
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.
