{"id":1216952,"date":"2025-02-19T12:41:04","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T17:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1216952"},"modified":"2025-02-19T12:41:04","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T17:41:04","slug":"valve-releases-full-team-fortress-2-game-code-to-encourage-new-free-versions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1216952","title":{"rendered":"Valve releases full Team Fortress 2 game code to encourage new, free versions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Valve’s updates to its classic games evoke Hemingway’s two kinds of going bankrupt: gradually, then suddenly. Nothing is heard, little is seen, and then, one day, Half-Life 2: Deathmatch<\/em>,\u00a0Day of Defeat<\/em>, and other Source-engine-based games get a bevy of modern upgrades. Now, the entirety of Team Fortress 2<\/em> (TF2<\/em>) client and server game code, a boon for modders and fixers, is also being released.<\/p>\n

That source code<\/a> allows for more ambitious projects than have been possible thus far, Valve wrote in a blog post<\/a>. “Unlike the Steam Workshop or local content mods, this SDK gives mod makers the ability to change, extend, or rewrite TF2<\/em>, making anything from small tweaks to complete conversions possible.” The SDK license restricts any resulting projects to “a non-commercial basis,” but they can be published on Steam’s store as their own entities.<\/p>\n

Since it had the tools out, Valve also poked around the games based on that more open source engine and spiffed them up as well. Most games got 64-bit binary support, scalable HUD graphics, borderless window options, and the like. Many of these upgrades come from the big 25-year anniversary update made to\u00a0Half-Life 2<\/em><\/a>, which included “overbright lighting,” gamepad configurations, Steam networking support, and the like.<\/p>\n

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Valve’s updates to its classic games evoke Hemingway’s two kinds of going bankrupt: gradually, then suddenly. Nothing is heard, little is seen, and then, one day, Half-Life 2: Deathmatch,\u00a0Day of Defeat, and other Source-engine-based games get a bevy of modern … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1216952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1216952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1216952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1216952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1216952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}