Sunday, August 3, 2008

New Team Fortress 2 Environments?

According to the latest Team Fortress 2 blog update, the folks over at Valve Software are planning to create some new environments for their popular multiplayer shooter and are looking for your feedback! Here's a little snippet from the article:

One of the things we're looking at for the next update is the creation of a new type of environment for our levels to be built in. We're pretty happy with the way our environments have turned out so far, but as we create more and more maps with these achievement packs, we want our level designers to have more to work with in terms of giving their settings a unique look.

The challenging part of this type of design process is in finding types of terrain and structures that provide an understandable, interesting set of visuals and at the same time staying within the constraints of what we want to do with gameplay. In addition to this, we want to be able to stay within the strengths of the engine that TF is built around.

Your ideas must meet a specific set of criteria. Click here to learn more!