Creating & Finishing a TF2 Map... In only 12 days

[MrTwoVideoCards]

Yeah it will be done before Halloween.

[Vilham]

Looks very impressive and that is also an impressive timescale. I assume your on holiday or something?

It remains to be seen as to how it plays

[ErikKiller]

It remains to be seen as to how it plays

I'm guessing there will be 'patches'
Also, I declare that this certain deadline + later patching style of making stuff be named EAing it.

[MrTwoVideoCards]

Well the great thing about maps is that you can release beta versions, and eventually release a Final version based on feedback gathered by players. The idea here is to get it as "finished" as possible to hit the first beta. I feel that if anything will make it final, it should only be minor tweaking gathered from gameplay testing, and real-time scenarios on servers.

More or less the whole thing with most multiplayer maps in general is playtesting, and tons of it/ Sometimes it's hard to get that feedback, and the only real way to do it is by releasing iterative versions, aka patches.

Of course I mean this all from a custom mapper perspective. Obviously studios have tons of internal playtesting, but even then fresh eyes really help out.

[Vilham]

Well there is only so much that can be altered tbh without the original layout becoming worthless. And I know very well the design process, I have released maps before.

So as I said. It remains to be seen how it plays. Which it does.

[MrTwoVideoCards]

My comment was directed at Erik, but okay, sure.

[Vilham]

My bad.

[Jike]

hows city 17 coming along?

[Chopium]

I think the horizon behind the blue spawn needs more variation.

[MrTwoVideoCards]

I agree.

[ErikKiller]

The finale could be a huge doomsday lazor.

[m8nkey]

this looked promising. was it ever released?

[MrTwoVideoCards]

actually it's been running on a test server right now. It went beta and released, but I haven't put it up anywhere else. I'm probably going to release a seriously finalized version VERY soon.