That's right! It's time again to start talking about what we want to do with this year's 72hr. With the last 72hr event having the largest amount of submissions to an event ever, we've decided to change things up. Introducing the TF2Maps.net 72HR Jam. No rules, no limits, no holdbacks. This is big.
I'll spare you the strawberry/raspberry jokes and move to the point - this is not a contest. The scale has grown beyond what we can reasonably run that way, which is great news, but does mean we need to change our plans a bit. So how is the 72HR Jam different to the previous 72hr contests?
So yeah. Make something awesome! Do it however you want, and lets have fun together as a community.
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With that done, what we need to decide on is the date. I'm planning to run it this time, but I have some pretty gnarly exams in mid January. As such, I'd like to run on the 23rd-24th January or later. What weekends do people want to do? What can't they do? If we want to do earlier than that, that's also okay. Don't give us any bull about Valentine's Day - your first love is hammer.
I'll spare you the strawberry/raspberry jokes and move to the point - this is not a contest. The scale has grown beyond what we can reasonably run that way, which is great news, but does mean we need to change our plans a bit. So how is the 72HR Jam different to the previous 72hr contests?
- No Contest. No judging. No prizes. (Everyone is a winner!)
- No rules! You can make whatever you want - New maps, gamemodes, detail environments, particles, props, hats, weapons, plugins, sound mods. If it's TF2 related, you can make it.
- Collaborations are allowed. In fact, we want to encourage them - more on that later.
- We'll give you a time, as usual, and we'll probably have a specific place for posting things you've made so everyone can see them all.
- We'll be running regular playtests, and helping people run them, as usual.
- For non maps, make sure to constantly post what you're creating, so everyone can provide feedback.
- You won't be able to update for a few days afterward, so everyone can see what was done in the time period and give feedback. You won't have to wait for a judging period though.
So yeah. Make something awesome! Do it however you want, and lets have fun together as a community.
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With that done, what we need to decide on is the date. I'm planning to run it this time, but I have some pretty gnarly exams in mid January. As such, I'd like to run on the 23rd-24th January or later. What weekends do people want to do? What can't they do? If we want to do earlier than that, that's also okay. Don't give us any bull about Valentine's Day - your first love is hammer.