TF2 Trading Cards - Part 1

June 27, 2008 - Jakob Jungels


During the development process with most of our games, we end up creating content that, for a variety of reasons, may never see the light of day. Sometimes we may not have the time to bring the content to finish, sometimes we use them as a company-only experiment, and sometimes the content just isn't in line with what we're doing at the time. Needless to say, there's a fair bit of cool stuff that we've never been able to share with our fans. We're happy to say that this blog has now given us a unique format in which to share some of the unused artwork with you.

At some point during the shipping of TF2, the TF art team built a set of trading cards as promotional tools at cyber cafes. We find it unfortunate that we were never able to produce these at a larger scale, considering how much work went into them and considering how proud we were of them as final pieces of art. The four here are a couple examples of the cards that were built, and we plan to continue to release some as time goes on.



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