Game Design Challenge: The Next Step For Team Fortress 2

TCurtis · 08-15-2012, 09:53 AM

Hey all! We've just kicked off the newest Game Design Challenge.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to design the next major update for Team Fortress 2.

Full details can be found here: http://www.gamecareerguide.com/featu..._the_next_.php

Feel free to post here if you have any questions -- good luck!

Protector one · 08-16-2012, 04:02 AM

Given Steam's upcoming community update with extra emphasis on user generated content, I'd say a logical next update for Team Fortress 2 would be to increase mod-friendliness. Some might argue Valve's Source games are already very mod-friendly, but look at what they did with the Portal 2 level editor. Not until that thing was released did the number of custom maps available explode. I imagine something similar could be done for behavior modification. An easy built-in scripting language, or perhaps some sort of drag and drop system for creating new behaviors. Anyway, that's what I'd like to see for the next update.

halleylight · 08-16-2012, 08:22 AM

Wah, I haven't played any Team Fortress games before. I'm not sure if I can make it in time.

TCurtis · 08-16-2012, 11:10 AM

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Originally Posted by halleylight

Wah, I haven't played any Team Fortress games before. I'm not sure if I can make it in time.

Luckily, TF2 is free to play, so if you want to give it a try it won't cost you anything. Plus, you don't need a very powerful machine to run the game -- I've played it a number of times on some pretty old hardware!

Protector one · 08-25-2012, 07:28 AM

User generated content, man. Edge is on to them too! It's inevitable! It's in the zeitgeist!

http://www.edge-online.com/features/...lay?page=show&

TCurtis · 09-05-2012, 09:58 AM

Hi all,

The results for this challenge are live! Congrats to all of our top entries.

Full details: http://www.gamecareerguide.com/featu...me_design_.php

halleylight · 09-05-2012, 12:26 PM

Ahh, I failed this time. Gotta try harder on the next one. Thank you for the hard work !

WittyMulley · 09-05-2012, 11:53 PM

Thank you for picking my submission; I am glad you liked it!
I am looking forward to the future challenges.