Portal 2: DLC map editor coming early 2012

Posted October 22, 2011 by Jeremy Peel in News.

Valve have announced a second free DLC update to Portal 2, which will feature an in-game map editor and the ability to share player-made maps online.

Valve are riding high this weekend, crowdsurfing on the outstretched hands of their fans, who voted Portal 2 Ultimate Game of the Year at the Golden Joysticks in London yesterday. Back in Valve Corp. HQ in Bellevue, though, they’re hard at work on a new DLC map editor, for release in early 2012.

This is brow-furrowing news for those who’ve been enjoyed the authoring tools Valve released back in May, a modified version of the tools used to put the game together.

But 2012′s in-game editor will be “easy-to-use”, according to its own press release, and will let users build and share single-player and co-op maps with the community, who can view, play and vote on them with a single click.

It sounds like ‘usability’ is a word doing the rounds at Valve currently, and that we’re in for a fully-integrated mod-picking interface to rival Little Big Planet.

No platforms have been mentioned at this point, which – fingers crossed – means that user-made maps will be available across PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 early next year.

Portal 2′s first round of DLC, entitled Peer Review, released on October 4th.

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