Most video game fans are familiar with Portal and it's numbered sequel, but developer Valve originally had a different idea for following up its unexpected 2007 hit.
F-Stop, as the canceled game was reportedly called, would have ditched the original game's portal gun for the Aperture Camera. (Aperture is a reference to the fictional corporation behind the portal gun, among other things.) Players would have used the camera to snap photos that would let them re-position objects in the world and tackle perspective-based puzzles.
The previously unreported Valve project is the subject of a new YouTube series called Exposure, from the indie studio Lunch House Software. The first episode, which released just before Christmas, takes a look at what would have been F-Stop's "base mechanics," with more episodes to come. Read more...
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