Chatting with Screwdriver from No Bright Shadows, about their soon to be released title, Crystal Ball Critters, developing in Unreal over Source, their origin story of Parkour Fortress and their return to source for Parkour Forever.
Author: John Irwin
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Special: Pre-Fortress 2 and the SDK
A week before recording this, Valve Software released a software development kit specifically targeted towards Team Fortress 2 modders. This update gives permission to developers to create their own versions of TF2 and then to release them on Steam. Immediately making them available to a potential audience of millions us gamers.
Unsurprisingly this has lit a rocket under various modding teams who, before this had been locked out of doing anything remotely approved of with their hard work. Taking the chance to find out exactly what this means for one modding group I sat down with Sour Dani and FarLander of Pre-Fortress 2.
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KritzKast #458: Mermaids in the rear mirror
This was recorded some time after Copenhagen Games 2018. I sat down with two of the casters, one from 6s; GrumpyKoi and one from Highlander; jakeowaty, to get their take on proceedings.
Updates
March 28th – Competitive relaunch
March 28th – Fixes 01
March 29th – Fixes 02
March 30th – Fixes 03Also on the show
TeamSource.TF | Hugs.tfUpdate: A little of the conversation surrounding the “player of the week” section has been lost to time. Hence the outcome being totally different from the initial conversation.
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KritzKast #457: Agent Gunn
We’re talking with two of the winners of the 2017 Saxxy Awards, UEAKCrash and FryingDutchman. These lucky, but incredibly well deserving gents, along with a crowd that reads like the “who’s who” of TF2 creative endeavors for 2108, will be heading off to see Valve’s new studio, just as soon as they can all get time off work.
Nominees
Action | Comedy | Drama | Short | Extended
Winners
Action: Board Room, jig
Comedy: Chicken Strike, mori
Drama: Legacy Baron, Mouseholidays
Short: Player’s Portrait Crazyhalo, Mall, testinglol, SedimentarySocks, 2P, Hex
Extended: Leak! Anomidae, Toyoka, Fames, Kostamoinen, ItalianNinja, EDJE, ttmr, Taco_, The Winglet, Woozlez, XB33, dekker, Sgt. Bash, Pumodi, Blade x64, Py-Bun, CoBalt
Overall Winner: Agent Gunn : Hypo, Nonamesleft, SedimentarySocks, Callegos, Donhonk, Populus, Blaholtzen, Square, Five, UEAKCrash, Void, Fuzzymellow, Zoey, NeoDement, Harry, DatGmann, Colteh, Frying Dutchman, Bapaul, Additional Sound by SoundsnapAlso on the show:
Journey to the East – https://journeyeast.tf2maps.net/
Copenhagen Games – http://www.copenhagengames.comSpecial thanks to all of our Patreons patrons:
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KritzKast #456: better than I remember
Recorded 8th March 2018: Joined initially by Muhai and eventually by Aar to go through our views on the 2017 Saxxys, the Titanium Tank deadline and other stuff.
Some of the SFM mentioned on the show:
Also, we’re on the blog
Special thanks to all of our Patreons patrons:
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KritzKast #455: return to REWIND II
Recorded on 1st March 2018: 7th Annual Saxxy Awards are upon us.
RGL are having a European Prolander Cup.
The Famous 15 go to the Nordics SFM Competition was launched.
REWIND II: Why go to LANs?
Titanium Tank Deadline
Chloemew shows us how to make war paintsSpecial thanks to all of our Patreons patrons:
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KritzKast #454: Sami Engine
LAN hero, and world traveller Samiface joins the stream. She reveals the secrets that lead to her breaking the land speed record at Nevada in ’83. Only kidding – was just checking to see if you were awake. Which you clearly are. Well done.
Also on the show:
REWIND II
Copenhagen Games
TeamSource.TF CG competition
TF2 community challenge for Feb 2018
Prolander Newbies Cup
Newbie Cup
The Palaise MGE Double Community Clash
One Day Prolander CupSpecial thanks to all of our Patreons patrons:
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KritzKast #453: End of Inferno
Ding Dong the Inferno update is dead. Or to be more precise it has been put into a long slumber, as of Feb 14, though it is still possible to complete whatever contracts you’ve left over. It’s another Agro only show for this one, thought I’m getting better, not nearly half as mad sounding as last time. That is better, isn’t it?
Also on the show:
Metal Slug Fortress 2
Heart-mom tattoo contest
10 Years later
Copenhagen Games TF2 DiscordSpecial thanks to all of our Patreons patrons:
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KritzKast #452: B4nny
It almost doesn’t matter at this point if you’re into TF2 esports or not. There are just some people who have been knee deep in it for so long that they seem to transcend the question of whether or not it’s a good idea. One such person is B4nny. And we were lucky enough to get him to ourselves for nearly a whole hour.
Also on the show:
TF2 Pro League
B4nny Twitch | YouTube | Twitter
REWIND I | REWIND IISpecial thanks to all of our Patreons patrons:
Chris Schetter, Five Iron, Fox Fairline, Allyson, [YAK], Ben55, Knusperfrosch, Viking34, RTGame, Critical Flaw, Donkey, NiceAsh -
KritzKast #451: Titanium STN
STN Trading have started to make a name for themselves, sponsoring pretty much everything that moves. Finally we have a chance to sit down with the owner, Spyfly and one of his admins, Ben55. Origin stories incoming.
Also on the show:
ETF2L Season Awards
MvM Titanium Tank, Servers | wiki | medal progress
Minecraft Fortress 2 by u/StoneBana
One man’s Hat collection, 352 stout shakos
STN Trading, STN.tfSpecial thanks to all of our Patreons patrons:
Chris Schetter, Five Iron, Fox Fairline, Allyson, [YAK], Ben55, Knusperfrosch, Viking34, RTGame, Critical Flaw, Donkey, NiceAsh