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Portal 2 Proposal: The Wedding Cake is Not a Lie

Technabob — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 01:59:12 +0000

Who doesn’t love a good romantic story – especially when it involves Portal? Well, you can have your cake and eat it too, thanks to this tale of a guy and his very special Portal 2 proposal.

A guy named Gary Hudston wanted to do something very special to ask his girlfriend, Stephanie, for her hand in marriage. Instead of doing the “on bended knee” thing, he got creative. He sought out a game level designer to help him put together a wedding proposal, buried deep inside a set of custom Portal 2 puzzles.

What he got was much more than he could have imagined. Thanks to the talents of Douglas “TopHATTwaffle” Hoogland and Rachel “Miss Stabby” van der Meer, he ended up not only with an awesome proposal for his soon-to-be fiance, but some equivalently awesome and dastardly Portal 2 gameplay. The entire thing is captured in this video clip:

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Wasn’t that amazing? I can’t believe they even got Ellen McClain to do the voice of GLaDoS. Although, now I want to marry GLaDoS. If you want to try the levels out for yourself, you can download them here.

Stephanie, you have to marry Gary. You’d be a fool not to. That is, assuming you managed to get through all of the levels to the proposal stage.

[via Reddit via Rock Paper Shotgun]

Homebrew Easy Proposal Maker for Last Minute V-Day Plans [Nintendo Ds]

Alisha K. — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 13:00:36 +0000

Stumped for something special for your Valentine? Well, if you happen to be interested in popping the big question and you’ve got a homebrew-ready Nintendo DS lying around, you can plot your way to the perfect marriage proposal in minutes with Easy Proposal Maker.

Well, it’s perfect if your significant other just happens to like very simple games. Here’s how the homebrew program works: you enter your special proposal message, whatever it may be, and then convince your special someone to play the included tile game, The Search Master, which they have to beat in order to get to the proposal. Could be a recipe for disaster–imagine if your special someone couldn’t or wouldn’t finish?

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At least it doesn’t look too complicated….

[Easy Proposal Maker via Inside Nintendo]

Together 4 Dead: a Zombified Proposal

Alisha K. — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:00:55 +0000

There’s nothing more romantic than a midnight escape across the rooftops, just you, your lover, and as much ammo as you can carry, as the ravenous undead hordes slobber below you, rotting arms waving in a symphony of rage and hunger. Well, Paris, maybe. But it’s a close one. And there’s certainly no better place to propose than the middle of a zombie apocalypse.

One frisky young zombie hunter, who wanted to be joined with his slaughterin’ buddy for all time, decided to propose via a blog post about the couples’s favorite zombie-killing game: Left 4 Dead. The post was all about the game’s excellent setting and ambience, particularly in the safe rooms where survivors hide and restock. The rooms are covered in messages: declarations of hopelessness, pleas for help, and notes to loved ones. It didn’t take much to add something to one of the screencaps…. something like a marriage proposal.

Good thing she actually read the whole post and paid attention, eh? The above image was included, as well, linked to the “yes” option beneath the picture with the proposal. I can only guess that he plays as Francis, while his lady plays as Zoey. The couple that slays zombies together stays together!

[The Thunder and the Surf via Hawty McBloggy]