Personal take on this, let me give you a little backstory about myself as i think that's important here. I worked a year QA for a major company and got a good feal for how larger companies function, I start very soon at another game company as a 3d artist and i've spent the past couple months doing environment art for an…
Funny you should mention portal, there's an excellent 2d flash version already out: http://portal.wecreatestuff.com/portal.php Portal definitely falls next to "minecraft" for a very innovative game with simple gameplay that doesn't rely on fancy graphics. But it's also very mouse driven and requires lots of very precise…