Maptest Tuesday Nights @ The Cafe

ardysqrrl

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will edit this post with more details later

Want an extremely casual environment of new people to get a fresh look at your map? Enjoy watching people with very low skill? Are TF2maps gamedays just too early in the day?

Look no longer! Every Tuesday night at 7:30 pacific (10:30 eastern) we will play -YOUR- bad maps @ The Cafe of Broken Dreams!

simply upload your map here: http://cafeofbrokendreams.com/publicdrop.py

and show up during the event, and your map will be played! The only restrictions are more or less the same as they are at TF2M gamedays (map must be fully playable, buildcubemaps, etc)

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/cafeofbrokendreams <- our steam group
steam://connect/cafeofbrokendreams.com:27015 <- a link to the tf2 server itself

To clarify, The Cafe is not a mapper server, we are a general public server trying to foster a community of players with a love of custom maps. This is meant to be an additional method of getting maps tested, rather than some sort of replacement for gamedays. Hope to see you there!
 
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Penguin

Clinically Diagnosed with Small Mapper's Syndrome
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nobody should play here this is a terrible server
 

BrokenTripod

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Just now realizing I have no idea if I can make it tuesday night at 7:30. Shucks. I'll try.
 
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Submitted my map (coalmine_a1) but I won't be awake to play.
 

Zhan

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Is this still happening? what's the deal?

Happens every Tuesday! They have the feedback plugin installed so all of the TF2M people can leave comments and feedback. People aren't posting here since all that's needed to have your map tested on Tuesdays is to upload it to the Cafe public map drop (http://cafeofbrokendreams.com/publicdrop.py) and it will be played, without the more formal scheduling of the gamedays here.
 

REEJ

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Aug 26, 2010
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i'm gonna try to join you guys in these playtests, but gotta admit it's gonna be hard to do with my EU timezone
 
Apr 13, 2009
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i'm gonna try to join you guys in these playtests, but gotta admit it's gonna be hard to do with my EU timezone

Yeah, it's insanely late, and even if you attend you're not guaranteed to get your map played until several hours in.
It's a great initiative, but it's not for everyone...
 

ardysqrrl

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Oct 26, 2009
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part of the reason this event was started is because TF2M playtests were at an awkward time for me :V so yes, they're not for everybody.
 

Jack Riguel

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Bumping this since it's a great testing environment, but also for a request...

I'm not sure if I can make the test tomorrow, I'll try to race back ASAP from class but I might be too late. If anyone reading this is planning on attending, it would be super swell of you if you could record a personal demo just in case. I'll gift a couple items or a copy of mount&blade or something.

Send me a PM if you're interested. Map is TC_Kennecott, thanks again.
 
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