User:Mikado282/Who invented TF2?
The point of asking "Who invented TF2?" is to illustrate is that basic elements of Team Fortress 2, particularly various game modes, were traditional youth games and training for centuries before computer gaming drew us all indoors ....
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Baden-Powell invented Team Fortress 2
Sir Robert Baden-Powell was the founder of Scouting.
One of Baden-Powell books for Scouting was Scouting Games (1910). One game that proved most popular was Capture the Flag, which is still played in Scout camps today (pictured).
Another game mode he wrote for the youth was Dispatch (Escort).
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The SCA invented Team Fortress 2
Legally incorporated in 1968, the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) is, in the main, a massively multiplayer role-playing game founded upon first-person Medieval Mode combat; and, as soon as the pre-Internet telecommunications of the United States became advanced enough for BBS, the SCA grew into full MMORPG, albeit with a huge IRL ARG.
Particularly popular modes include Dueling (Launch), Tournament Mode (Launch), Arena (Launch), Capture the Flag, King of the Hill, Two Fort, and Control Point; but, we also developed variations of Player Destruction and PASS Time (like The Blood of Heroes), all with none of the tiny baby server limits of only 36 players (a few "servers" host thousands of players).
Particularly into the 1990s, the SCA began to develop semi-permanent, and eventually permanent, IRL levels, generally of the One Fort arrangement.
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Pauline Palmer Meek invented the Team Fortress 2 Storyline
Published in 1966 but read by Mikado282 in early 1969, Pauline Palmer Meek's book Just-Alike Princes invented the Team Fortress 2 Storyline.
- The story is about twin sons of wealthy parents. As such, the twins have many nice toys.
- However, the twins are rivalrous, unable to share; whatever toy the one attempted to play with, the other would destroy.
- Each broken toy was carried away by their chamber maid.
- Attempting to end the jealousy, the father gives the boys a new collection of toys split evenly between them both, each boy receiving a complete duplicate set of clothes and toys, one set colored RED and the other colored BLU.
- Nevertheless, the boys continue to fight over their toys, but now twice as many toys are broken.
- The last set of broken toys that the chamber maid carries away is a large box of the mixed broken RED and BLU trains.
- The boys have all of their toys taken away and are forced to sit in chairs.
- At this point, the boys wish they had a toy to share; and the chamber maid brings back the remains of the RED and BLU trains, from which the boys build a RED/BLU train to share!
- The story closes with the twins dressed in matching purple.
Glacier Lodge invented Team Fortress 2
No, really, in August of 1968, Dad took my brothers and I here in Estes Park to meet the soon to be other half of our family. For eight years, I had my birthdays here. We would go up the hill behind the cabins to play Two Fort in the granite boulders.
(This was also the first place I ever actually played shuffleboard.)
