A Group Fortress 2 charity drive is being held in July by group website TF2Maps in assist of charity Medical doctors With out Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières). The occasion is scheduled to run for 72 hours from July 22 – 25, and encourages anybody within the FPS sport’s group to hitch in and create TF2-related issues in assist of the humanitarian organisation.
The foundations are easy – all it’s important to do to take part is to “make one thing for or about Group Fortress 2.” It may be one thing in-game or a real-world challenge, so long as it’s associated to Valve’s free-to-play sport. Some examples given are maps, fashions, or mods that might be utilized in TF2, in addition to “warpaints, animations, movies, work, drawings, fan fiction, woodwork, stonework, legwork, homework, and all the things else in-between.”
TF2Maps asks that anybody collaborating ensures that they don’t work on the challenge outdoors of the prescribed hours of July 22 at 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm GMT to July 25 at 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm GMT. The staff emphasises that planning upfront is allowed, however that you should not begin creating your submission till the occasion is dwell. You might also use customized content material from different individuals in your creation, as per TF2’s standard guidelines, so long as they’re appropriately credited.
Additional particulars may be discovered on the devoted TF2Maps Jam web site, together with a full FAQ. The staff notes that if you’re unable to take part through the designated interval, then you possibly can as a substitute apply to make your creation throughout a time of your selecting – however asks that you just prohibit your self to the identical 72-hour restrict as everybody else.
The TF2Maps staff will likely be livestreaming through the occasion, they usually’ll be displaying off in-game creations together with map testing periods to supply suggestions on anybody making maps (which, as its identify may recommend, is the group’s explicit speciality). Further group tasks may even be showcased throughout ‘Jam Ketchup’ periods over the course of the occasion.
In the meantime, Valve has been responding to the latest #SaveTF2 marketing campaign with a number of Group Fortress 2 updates geared toward serving to gamers boot bots from their video games.
