Take On Valve in a Round of Team Fortress 2
By Jonathan on Tuesday, October 16th, 2007 at 11:43 AM PST In Gamer Life, Half-Life, Microsoft, Valve
Valve has announced a special event to celebrate the release of The Orange Box. On October 19th, through Xbox Live, players will have the chance to take on the developers of Team Fortress 2 themselves in a few friendly rounds of the game. On that day, from 3-7 PM PDT (6-10 EDT), you’ll be able to chat and play with the level designers, programmers, artists, writers, and animators who worked on the game and learn a few insider tips and strategies. To participate, simply add the gamertags below to your friends list. On that day, you can invite or be invited by a member of the Valve team into a game.
- gamewithdev1 (Matt W.- Level Designer)
- ValveArtist1 (Matthew S. – Artist)
- ValveAnim (Matthew R. – Animator)
- ValveProg1 (Vitaliy – Programmer)
- ValveProg2 (Adrian – Programmer)
- ValveProg3 (Kerry – Programmer)
- ValveProg4 (Robin – Programmer)
- ValveProg5 (Jim – Programmer)
- ValveLevelDes2 (Dave – Level Designer)
- ValveArtist2 (Nick – Artist)
- ValveLevelDes3 (Scott – Level Designer)
- ValveProg6 (David – Programmer)
- ValveWriter (Chet – Writer)
That’s all well and good, but when do the PC players get a chance to take on the Valve team?
Via Press Release
I guess the PC gamers will not get a chance. The publishers tend to favor the console players because consoles is how you can reach the casual gamers more easily.
I don’t know about that, Gabe Newell has said more than once that he does not have a good outlook on the xbox 360, and the way that Microsoft does it’s video games.
He think that consoles should have the same customization options that a PC has.