meanwhile, in "games industry news that is actually good as hell & one you wish would be an example to other companies", Valve just made the Team Fortress 2 SDK available for anyone to develop with non-commercially www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=... - ThreadSky

caylen.bsky.social • 5 days ago

meanwhile, in "games industry news that is actually good as hell & one you wish would be an example to other companies", Valve just made the Team Fortress 2 SDK available for anyone to develop with non-commercially

https://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=238809

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sammy-smeargle.bsky.social•5 days ago

StBlackSt is gonna have a field day with this.

dalivelyghost.bsky.social•5 days ago

Tf2c and open fortress can finally get official steam releases now! Exciting stuff

caylen.bsky.social•5 days ago

immediate thoughts:

pretty good answer for a large TF2 community that wanted the game updated/changed/better supported, given Valve's motivations, and a nice compromise on letting a game continue on beyond it's EOL while also not making it abandonware

i wonder what botting community does with it?

caylen.bsky.social•5 days ago

also curious how robust the SDK is to fuck around with vs. Unreal Editor for Fortnite in regards of a solo dev or indie team building a prototype on it

UEfF is ridiculously good & easy to work with, but this might be better to prove interest with the "publish to Steam" benefit to get investors

cactrot.bsky.social•5 days ago

I mean Valve releasing anything is big news these days

caylen.bsky.social•5 days ago

they're putting out more stuff consistently than most big pubs for the past year tbh

cactrot.bsky.social•5 days ago

I guess that is true, regardless some wacko is going to put together a 64 player 4-team 4fort mod, it will be the best kind of insane and I can't wait to see it.

utilitylimb.bsky.social•5 days ago

vc-driven game companies getting absolutely clowned on by a dictator-driven company is a brutal indictment of shareholder capitalism

rotor.bsky.social•5 days ago

So i played qwtf for way longer than most people did and I loved it and then tf2 came out and I loved it as well, even if i was too old to be much good at fps games at that point. Its just been one of the most fantastic video game franchises ever imo[

caylen.bsky.social•5 days ago

team fortress 2 was some of the most fun I ever had LAN gaming or playing with YCS dorks. i was just about "aged out" of the genre at that point but still had a blast playing any of the classes.

i think a lot of its fans today like it for good reasons, and I hope this makes them happy

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