Haha, I will do that. Yeah, Chell's potato project is the freak mutant potato, and one of the materials was "something from daddy's work" or something like that, so she's almost certainly the daughter of one of the staff. Apparently there is a little girl in the Portrait of a Lady, too, who can only be seen if you turn up the brightness in the image - I found the painting on my first go-through but didn't even think to mess with the monitor brightness when I saw it, of course. So I have yet to look at that. But I'll see what else they have on the TVTropes page.
Also I was reading today about the original concept for Portal 2, which apparently was actually a prequel set in the 50s and didn't involve portals as a gameplay element at all. The full story is apparently only viewable if you buy an iPad app, frustratingly enough, so I'm waiting for someone to crack that, but as much as I do love Portal 2 I wish they hadn't entirely scrapped the prequel idea. They just got too much negative feedback from play testers, I guess, who all wanted Chell and GLaDOS and portals in their Portal games.
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Date: 2011-04-27 01:02 (UTC)Also I was reading today about the original concept for Portal 2, which apparently was actually a prequel set in the 50s and didn't involve portals as a gameplay element at all. The full story is apparently only viewable if you buy an iPad app, frustratingly enough, so I'm waiting for someone to crack that, but as much as I do love Portal 2 I wish they hadn't entirely scrapped the prequel idea. They just got too much negative feedback from play testers, I guess, who all wanted Chell and GLaDOS and portals in their Portal games.