Valve take Hammer the Portal game engine into the classroom

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A great piece of work, I’m not sure if the developers or the kids enjoyed the experience more. Valve, the people behind some lovely video games; Half Life and Portal took the building tool behind Portal 2 into a classroom. Pointed some teams of 12 year olds at the basics of level design and watched them play. Inspiring stuff.