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2000-2009 The 2000s

Game development

Portal shows how much a short game can accomplish

Included in a multi-game bundle released on October 10, 2007, Portal grew out of a student project. It taught its own spatial rules entirely through level design and finished in a few hours.

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Valve Corporation, DigiPen Institute of Technology
Platform
Personal computers, Home consoles
Region
North America
Period
The 2000s

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Teaching a player through arrangement of space rather than instruction became a reference standard for design, and the game is used in courses to demonstrate it. It also legitimized brevity, showing that a few concentrated hours could be a complete work rather than a compromise.

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