You had so much promiss ProtoGalaxy

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What a cruel uninteresting fate you suffered.

[Tera_GX]

It did have a lot of promise! Back when Portal 2's ARG was in progress leading up to launch, I made a prototype of Portal mechanics working in PG. The portals actually worked as intended! (Shoot anywhere, control portal type placed, successful 2-way portal.) I'm proud of my SourceStudio T-shirt, but it represents a nonexistent company T_T

[luckz]

Aw.

[Alex]

Thanks for all the support over the years! I hope more players will enjoy the game now that it's free!

[luckz]

Originally posted by Alex:

Thanks for all the support over the years! I hope more players will enjoy the game now that it's free!

Hey! There's no announcement as to why it's free now, is there? Did you explain it anywhere?
Are you working on another game and want to promote it?
Did sales drop to zero and you decided it might as well be free now that nobody is buying it anymore?
Is it part of some not publicised Valve initiative for older games? Saira also recently became free after many years.

[Zorklis]

So is this free forever or for limited time?

[AuburnRDM]

I guess I will cherish the gift form of this game in my inventory forever.

[shak59]

This game has some fun gameplay mechanics (smashing enemies into wall with tractor beam!). I think it's only let down by level design and graphics. music is great, content is all there, just level design, real graphics and a single player campaign would have made this a win.

[Miraglyth]

Originally posted by Alex:

Thanks for all the support over the years! I hope more players will enjoy the game now that it's free!

Wait, this is the announcement?

A few people have recorded achievements now as well, so either they're using SAM or there's actually been a silent update to match this transition.

Edit: Holy smokes, either they've been fixed (judging by the players who've been getting this recently as shown on sites like astats, likely) or I've found a workaround to make them work by accident (unlikely).

[Tera_GX]

Originally posted by Miraglyth:

A few people have recorded achievements now as well, so either they're using SAM or there's actually been a silent update to match this transition.

Edit: Holy smokes, either they've been fixed (judging by the players who've been getting this recently as shown on sites like astats, likely) or I've found a workaround to make them work by accident (unlikely).

I'm not sure what SAM is, but after you pointing out this astats site, I signed up to show the achievements were at a time a real thing. I earned 100% while the devs were still alive, witnessed some patches break a few achievements and fix others multiple times. I find it unlikely that there would have been a recent update that fixed them all since Source Studio no longer exists. Though I was indeed surprised Alex made this one small announcement. I would love to see this be revived...

[Miraglyth]

Unlikely or not, that site only had about 5 people recorded with any of them (it doesn't appear to know you haha) for years until Alex's post and since then 10 others have recorded some in a relatively short time.

It was that sudden growth in the achievers which had me looking around to see if there'd been any changes to find this topic. And, as I mentioned, the game's giving me them now after I close the game having earned some.