Portal 2 and the Power of Paint People

What a packed PAX 2011 it was, we've got a full set of interviews coming your way today including one with Joshua Weier, the Project Lead at Valve on Portal 2.

Prior to the interview, I was blown away by the PAX Portal 2 trailer, but I noticed something that I put to Joshua.

"In the demo you are showing at here at PAX East you have the use of special paint that gives the player special abilities. I saw this before on a game called 'The Power of Paint', is the same people who made that game working on Portal 2?," I asked.

Joshua responded, "It is the same people! The original Portal was made by Digipen students who were brought into Valve to make Portal 1 that was based on the game they developed called Narbacular Drop. So we went back to Digipen and saw The Power of Paint, really liked it and brought the developers of that game internally to work on Portal 2.

"When we talked to them we were really influenced by Portal and this is how we learnt to build our game, so it's just so funny that they based their game on Portal and now they are working on Portal 2."

Full interview will be up on SPOnG later!