This Cake is Not a Lie: Portal on iPhone is Real
Last week a mysterious video surfaced of what appeared to be Portal, Valve’s popular puzzle game, running on the iPhone. Many commenters on YouTube, Reddit and other social sites called it a fake. And who could really blame them. The game shown in the video looked nearly identical to the PC version, how could a mobile device run a desktop class game? True, Portal is by no means a power hog like Crysis, but it’s not exactly mobile friendly either.
After reading through various comment threads I started to seriously doubt the validity of the video myself. So I contacted the creator of video to gather more information. He was kind enough to send me a copy of the game. I loaded it up on my iPhone 3GS and off I went. Even after launching the game and getting some hands on time with it apart of me still had trouble believing. I was simply amazed that Portal could actually run on the iPhone.
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I hope they get permission, what they should do is give 70% of the money they get to valve.
This has been confirmed, it is in full production as an app for the iphone but its still unconfirmed as to wether apple will actually allow it in the appstore without valves express permission since its been created by an independant developer, if he can get permission it is goign to be in the app store…and on my phone
if he dosent get permission im betting its going to appear in cydia anyway
really do you know when it’s coming out?
I wish it would be released via cydia too, just started playing portal on pc and it would be awesome to have on iphone
this would be fun if it was real portal, but i would still get it as long as it had GLaDOS talking
None the less, I would run it on my iPhone, regardless.
how can i get portal on i-pod?
You realize this is not real Portal, right? It is not powered by the Source engine, it is powered by Unity, and it is running a recreation of Testchamber 13. But I agree. It is a good game. BTW, it runs so smoothly because it is not real Portal.