if you ever need a creative pickmeup remember that the administrator in tf2 was just this random disembodied old woman voice who announced match info in the game
but then a young lady did a fan design of her for kicks on her blog and da account full of fanart, and valve loved it so much that they bought the character design from her, and they eventually hired her to draw official tf2 comics for them, and now the administrator’s this big developed character through multiple oneoffs and arcs and stories in the canon and the fan is now an inhouse comic artist working ft for valve
you never know where your artistic and fandom passions will take you, if you love it and exercise your creativity in fun interesting ways, you never know what could come out of it
Out of curiosity, I went out to find Makani’s original fanart. Here it is:
And here’s her first official appearance in the comic, made only one year later:
I think this is the first time that someone’s incessant fanposts on Tumblr have made me want to try a vidya game, but I am almost tempted to give TF2 a shot
I am surprised you didn’t tag me to this post.
Man, I don’t do multiplayer shooters. Ever. I think the last ones I did were a little Halo 2 with college friends, and then old Goldeneye on the N64 with middle school friends. I just don’t like it.
But man, TF2 is amazing. It looks good. It controls well. Every class has distinct advantages and disadvantages and 2-4 different versions of those depending on your loadout, and more than ANYTHING, it’s a game that encourages teamwork.
Like… one player moving to medic can shift a game so much. One player moving to sniper and taking out the opposition’s heavies. One to engineer, setting sentries at chokepoints and teleporters to keep your team on the front lines. One demoman laying traps on the point. One scout circling behind to take out opposing snipers or capturing a point from behind. One spy just wreaking all kinds of havok and keeping them paranoid and distracted. One good rocket-jumping soldier ruining their day because NO ONE LOOKS UP. And of course a good pyro who can either support their team or go full kamikaze and wreck a group so easily.
It’s just an amazingly designed game and I’m so hooked.
And the best thing is that it’s Free to Play, you get different weapons both through random drops and by getting achievements, and the stock loadouts are still some of the best. (The best soldiers and scouts I’ve seen, for example, still use stock primaries.)
haha cuz I knew you’d see it anyway. -.^
I love so many things about Valve and their game creation culture and it seems like the TF2 fans have picked up on that. hence the appreciation. maybe I’ll see if Jake wants to play with me soon.
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I think this is the first time that someone’s incessant fanposts on Tumblr have made me want to try a vidya game, but I am almost tempted to give TF2 a shot
