14 DAY TRIAL // Valve has officially deployed the official mod and authoring tools for the PC version of Portal 2, allowing owners of the game to create their own puzzles for the recently released game.
Not even a month has passed since the release of Portal 2 and Valve is already allowing the community access to a pretty big range of modding and authoring tools for the new game.
The tools are now available as a free download through Valve's own Steam digital distribution service, for all owners of the PC version of Portal 2.
"The Portal 2 Authoring Tools include versions of the same tools we used to make Portal 2," Valve said. "They'll allow you to create your own singleplayer and co-op maps, new character skins, 3D models, sound effects, and music."
The tools include things like: - Updated version of Hammer, the Source level editor - Updated Faceposer - Example maps and instances to help build new maps - Updated suite of command-line compiling utilities. Valve emphasizes that the Portal 2 mod tools are still in beta stage, so there might be some problems or issues.
This shouldn't prevent many imaginative users from creating all sorts of new puzzles, test chambers and adventures for both the singleplayer mode in Portal 2 as well as for the cooperative one.
Portal 2 was released last month and is already one of the best reviewed games of the year, managing to impress through its amusing and clever story in the singleplayer and delivering an addictive experience through the cooperative one, which sees players work together with a buddy in order to solve even more puzzles.
While some gamers complained once more about its length, these new mod tools are certain to expand it, at least until Valve releases its own DLC Pack #1 this summer, with challenge modes for the singleplayer and multiplayer ones, as well as lots of other goodies, completely free.