Hey everyone!

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Portal Stories: Mel.

It's been an incredible 10 years, and I would like to thank each and every one of you, for your amazing support over all these years. In the decade since release, we've split up as a team, but still are in contact with each other. We've found jobs in the gaming industry: AAA, AA and indie. But also in education, communication and more.

I'm incredibly proud of what we've achieved. At the point of writing this, 50 people are still playing our mod. With a decade of hindsight, there are certainly things that I'd like to tweak and adjust, and I had hoped to be able to release a small remaster. This would’ve been mostly focused on better support for modern hardware. Unfortunately this proved more challenging and time-consuming than first expected. So it's on hold for now - maybe I will return to it in the future, maybe not.

I'd like to thank all of you, players of the game, who've followed us since the humble beginnings on ModDB, and those who have only recently found our mod. The amount of fan art, recommendations, and people who have called us inspirational has been humbling. And the fact that you all rallied together to vote for us as "Best Fan Creation" at the 2015 game awards, and "ModDB Mod of the Year" is still unreal to me. Thank you all so much, your support has meant a lot to us all. Thank you for being such an amazing community!

Lastly, I would like to say a personal thanks to some of the people who made this mod a reality:

Stephen, thank you for being an amazing level designer, a great collaborator and most of all an incredible friend. This game couldn't have happened without you! I'm sorry that my request for "a bit of help with a little project" ended up with you moving countries, a decade later!

Chris, thanks for being such an enthusiastic, hard worker, just getting stuff done. For being so incredibly receptive to feedback, and to be willing to learn and teach your incredible skills. I'm very sorry that even after 10 years, we're still teasing you daily in our game with your "statoion" typo!

Tamás, thanks for your awesome work on the portalgun particles, in pushing us to improve our lighting, and all the other fun particles you've made. I'll never forget the wonderful nights watching you play Alien: Isolation over Skype, that was a wonderful time.

Jacob Briggs, your wonderful posters really helped give our game character. And it's still really funny to see the reactions of people when the credits roll in when they first see the Rattman drawing of me. Maybe the brief of "make it look like we completely lost our marbles from working on the game" might've been followed maybe a bit ***TOO*** well!

Rachel, thank you for being an incredible artist, with amazing eye for detail, and for being such a great friend! Your portal gun in particular is still an absolutely wonderful model to look at, especially the little paperclip gives so much character. Every time I see someone post a picture of their real-life replica of the fun, it fills me with joy.

Ian, thank you for creating the wonderful story, and getting the right man to voice Virgil. "Time and Time again" is still a joy to listen to after all these years. Our conversations over the years have always been great fun, and hopefully we can meet IRL next year!

Stig, your performance of Virgil is superb, and really brought the story to life. The hours upon hours of cutting dialog might've turned Stephen slightly insane. But his vengeance with stitching together the most awkward takes for the Raingil sequence made it only better.

Harry, your videos, PR, and music have been hugely influential, and made the game that much more enjoyable. Can I finally reveal, after 10 years, that during the elevator scene at the end, the "gel blobs" are just blue painted rocks, and the wind sounds are just you going "woosh woosh"?

Jacob Anders, whenever we get a bug report of someone crashing the game, I always expect it to be someone noclipping in sp_a3_transition. The amount of detail you managed to get into that level is incredible, and it makes the level one of the standouts visually. Also let's never talk about how embarrassingly long it took me to solve that little destroyed chamber of yours.

To everyone else: thank you once again for your support!
I’m off to the shop to buy some cake to celebrate.

-Anna.

Hey Everyone!

Today we're releasing an update to Portal Stories: Mel that makes the main branch be in-line with the beta branch again. This means that all the previous bugs fixed in the beta update are now live for everyone!




* Fixed lighting issues with modern AMD GPUs.
* Added Vulcan support for the Linux build.
* Fixed wrong icon showing up on windows.
* Removed confirmation prompts for graphics settings.
* Removed the outdated libSDL2-2.0 from the linux build.

~ Anna

Removed the outdated libSDL2-2.0 from the linux build.

Fixed a potential issue on OSX and linux.

Hey Everyone!

Today we're releasing a beta update for Portal Stories: Mel that should resolved various issues:

• Fixed lighting issues with modern AMD GPUs.
  
• Added Vulcan support for the Linux build.
  
• Fixed wrong icon showing up on windows.
  
• Removed confirmation prompts for graphics settings.

We're aware of an issue where the inside of the container blocks the visibility of the door at the start of chapter 2, on certain AMD GPUs, and are currently investigating a solution.

If you want to participate in the beta, and let us know if you're experiencing any issues:

1. Right click Portal Stories: Mel in your Steam library
   
2. Select properties.
   
3. Go to the betas tab
   
4. Select "beta - Public beta branch"

This should download an update that's about ~35mb on windows. And even less on other platforms.

Please let us know if you're experiencing any issues in the beta branch!

~Anna

Hey Everyone,

Good news! Today we've pushed a couple of updates to Portal Stories: Mel and its soundtrack, so they are now available separately! As an additional bonus, we've added four new tracks to the soundtrack:

• Troubled Water (Trailer Theme)
  
• Waking Up To Science (menu)
  
• Adjacency (menu)
  
• System Corruption (alternate)
  
• Time and Time Again

If you search your Steam library, the Portal Stories: Mel Soundtrack should now show up, ready for you to download. If it doesn't: you can now get the soundtrack directly from Steam, without having to install Portal Stories: Mel first!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/322420/Portal_Stories_Mel_Soundtrack/

We hope you enjoy the soundtrack!



- Anna

Hey everyone,

Today we've released a small update to the Linux version of Portal Stories: Mel.

This fixes an incorrect launch parameter, which should resolve a lot of launching issues on Linux.

We've also removed libc++.6.so , which also caused a lot of issues in specific Linux versions.

Today we are proud to release The Captives: Plot of the Demiurge on Steam after over a year and a half of production. This is our first commercial game since releasing the award winning Portal Stories: Mel.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/666630/The_Captives_Plot_of_the_Demiurge/

The Captives: Plot of the Demiurge is a game set in a fantasy world and features Souls-like combat mechanics, compelling storytelling and the ability to customise a new character before each new level. However, in a unique twist, after completing a level all your previously customised characters continue to exist within the game world. Thus, rather than a single protagonist, you will be developing a whole cast of characters to interact with throughout the game!

• Character customisation of appearance, stats and weapons
  
• Souls-like combat
  
• Levelling choices in each dungeon
  
• Focus on storytelling

Replay the game with special Challenge Runs, combinations of unique modifiers to the game.
These include Roguelike Challenge which randomizes your build each time you play through the dungeons and Soul Challenge which restricts the number of checkpoints in the game and changes how healing works.

With a variety of individual modifiers you can also tweak the game to create your own challenge runs or make things a little easier if you get stuck.



Prism Studios is a small video game company based in Northern Ireland. In 2015, we released the Portal Stories: Mel mod for Valve’s Portal 2 game which was downloaded by over 1 million unique users. Now we are hoping to follow that success with our current project, The Captives: Plot of the Demiurge.

Getting this game to the finish line has been a challenge, especially since we are a tiny team trying to transition from the creation of an award-winning mod to a commercial product. Working without any budget or outside investment for over a year and half means that this project has been very much a labour of love!

You can keep up to date with our projects via

Twitter: https://twitter.com/PrismStudiosUK

Hey everyone,

We're happy to announce that we've launched our Steam Store page for our upcoming game The Captives: Plot of the Demiurge. You can add the game to your wishlist and follow the page to keep up-to-date with the development of the game there.




Steam Page for The Captives: Plot of the Demiurge.

Hey everyone,

We're happy to announce that we've launched our Steam Store page for our upcoming game The Captives: Plot of the Demiurge. You can add the game to your wishlist and follow the page to keep up-to-date with the development of the game there.




Steam Page for The Captives: Plot of the Demiurge.