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Re:Portal as a required college text by moultano on Saturday August 21, 2010 @04:31AM (#1622479)
Passage would be a much better option: http://hcsoftware.sourceforge.net/passage/

It's very short (5 minutes,) free, and you don't have to worry about anyone in the class not having enough skill to complete it.

It's also communicates in a way that only a game can. The rules of the game themselves are most of what gives it its expressive power, not the narrative or the visuals.

Re:Portal as a required college text by patchwork on Saturday August 21, 2010 @05:14AM (#1622504)
I never win this game.
Re:Portal as a required college text by pierre_M on Saturday August 21, 2010 @03:16PM (#1623451)
It's also boring, ugly, and at a level of sophistication roughly equivalent to a depressed fourteen-year-old kid's poetry

Waaah, life sucks And you're going to die Isn't it horrible And meaningless?

Portal at least has some craft to it.