A Crew Fortress 2 charity drive is being held in July by neighborhood website TF2Maps in assist of charity Docs 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 recreation’s neighborhood to affix in and create TF2-related issues in assist of the humanitarian organisation.
The foundations are easy – all you must do to take part is to “make one thing for or about Crew Fortress 2.” It may be one thing in-game or a real-world undertaking, so long as it’s associated to Valve’s free-to-play recreation. 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 every little thing else in-between.”
TF2Maps asks that anybody taking part ensures that they don’t work on the undertaking exterior 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 workforce emphasises that planning upfront is allowed, however that you need to not begin creating your submission till the occasion is reside. You may additionally use customized content material from different folks in your creation, as per TF2’s typical guidelines, so long as they’re appropriately credited.
Additional particulars will be discovered on the devoted TF2Maps Jam web site, together with a full FAQ. The workforce notes that in case you are unable to take part in the course of the designated interval, then you possibly can as an alternative apply to make your creation throughout a time of your selecting – however asks that you just limit your self to the identical 72-hour restrict as everybody else.
The TF2Maps workforce will likely be livestreaming in the course of the occasion, and so they’ll be displaying off in-game creations together with map testing classes to supply suggestions on anybody making maps (which, as its identify would possibly counsel, is the group’s specific speciality). Extra neighborhood tasks may also be showcased throughout ‘Jam Ketchup’ classes over the course of the occasion.
In the meantime, Valve has been responding to the latest #SaveTF2 marketing campaign with a number of Crew Fortress 2 updates aimed toward serving to gamers boot bots from their video games.
