A game made with the level editor of the first 5 original Tomb Raider
As Portal Runner was (like an open secret) an Army Men “Tomb Raider” game, making a second part using a new and improved editor based on TRLE (Tomb Raider Level Editor) was a logical rather than obvious decision. How did no one think this before?
This game will be a sequel to the original Portal Runner, immediately after, to years after the original game . But there will also have missions in the past of the original game and the rest of the Army Men franchise. It will explore strange new worlds, but will be set primarily in the Plastic World (the plastic soldiers world), secondarily in the Real World (the gigantic human world), and the rest in new places, possibly some worlds seen before, such as the Medieval World, the Prehistoric World and the Space World.
The protagonist this time will explore the places in the Plastic World that connect to the mysteries of the Real World and the rest of the other worlds set in the Toyverse. Completely new and familiar places that we went through in previous games will be revisited, (like Dr. Madd castle) following the footsteps of Sarge and Sarge Hawk, after they disappeared. Investigating, not just shooting and moving forward as if that’s all there is to it.
Strange and New World… but also well known locations
These well-known familiar locations we’ll see in Portal Runner 2 have evolved and changed over time, and we will know what became of these places after all this time (time after the last time we saw them). In addition to new and known places, we will also visit new places but located in the known areas, such as Desert, Alpine and Bayou from the original Army Men and Army Men 3D, or new locations in known Real World locations like Army men3D’s Bedroom from “Clean Up This Mess!“, as well as Fort Plastro, the Green base from the first mission of Sarge’s Heroes, the Blue City of World War, Greentown from Sarge’s War, Dr. Madd’s Castle from Sarge’s Heroes 2, among other areas.
Characteristics:
- It will be an adventure game, actually like a classic Tomb Raider game, a sequel of Portal Runner (maybe called Portal Runner 2 or Army Men: Portal Runner 2).
- It will be starred by Vikki Grimm and/or maybe the Tan version of Vikki, depending on what place in the timeline this will be placed. But if old models of Sarge’s Heroes can be acquired and adapted, it will be placed after Portal Runner and before Sarge’s War… or maybe during Sarge’s War (or both).
- It will be a prequel to this community game project story line, we called “Toyverse”.
- It will be a game for old graphics, revisiting old scenarios from old Army Men games and maybe other games, like “Battletanx” via Videogame Console Portals.
- If one of the protagonist will be Tan Vikki, the game will explore the nature of this new character, and the conflict with her old herself. This is a different Vikki and an Evil or Anti Hero character.
Making of Portal Runner 2
Below is a YouTube playlist with accelerated summaries of the design process, each about 10 minutes long, followed by some real-time recordings of the work.
