Valve Announces Portal 2 Test Chamber Challenge

Valve has just announced a new contest that Portal 2 fans from all over will appreciate. Introducing the Summer Mapping Initiative, the test chamber creation contest. In the contest players will submit their custom-created test chamber maps to compete for prizes and spotlight from Valve.

A website called ThinkingWithPortals.com is sponsoring the contest, and they are proud to announce such a creative endeavor. The contest will run from today through Monday, June 6th, ending at midnight. Here are some rules/requirements for the contest:

Rules and Requirements

• Maps must be submitted no later than June 6th at 11:59pm EDT.
• Both Singleplayer and Co-op maps are allowed. You may submit one map of each game mode.
• Maps cannot contain custom assets of any kind. No exceptions. Spend your time working on your puzzle, not making models, textures, sounds/voices, or other extra content.
• Maps must contain both an Entry and an Exit elevator, the style of which as appropriate for your map theme. 1940’s Aperture maps can use the old style elevators, destroyed Aperture can use the destroyed looking elevators, and so on.
• Maps must be able to be completed without using engine or portaling glitches of any kind.
• Entries must be uploaded to the ThinkingWithPortals.com Download Database and uploaded in a compressed file format (such as ZIP, RAR or 7z).
• Entries must include the source VMF.

For more information you can head to the ThinkingWithPortals website and check out the official form. I look forward to seeing just how the contest works out, as I am sure there will be some extremely complicated test chambers circulating around out there. Are any of you planning to enter out there?