SC2Mapster

RPG Interface by Sweepingzero

It's been a long time since I didn't news any cool interface. Sweepingzero is working on a RPG and has done a pretty good job at recreating from scratch the whole interface. He is looking for talented people in order to work on the map :)

Kerrigan Model by Underp4ntz

This is the first released edited model! Take nova, put some hairs and glows and you get Kerrigan :) The model tools are becoming a lot more evolved and stable, you should now be able to work on custom models without too much problem!

Melee: Orbital Decay by BoomStevo

Orbital Decay is a 4 player melee map developed toward 1v1 by BoomStevo. I really don't know what else to say ... Play it, it looks well made! (I'm sorry, I'm not really good when it comes to melee maps ...)

Warcraft 3 Armor Reduction by KorvinGump

I'm pretty sure that a lot of you are tired of units in Starcraft 2 dying like flies. You want tough units like in Warcraft 3! KorvinGump made a one-trigger system that lets you implement the Warcraft 3 armor reduction. As a result, there will be less units on the battle field and it'll lag less :)

Custom Live Tournament - Nexus Wars

Since the last tournament had to be cancelled Tinman decided to launch a new one, and with $300 prizes!

The tournament will be in two weeks, just to give people time to set up teams and practice. The date will be September 11th at 4 PM Paris time (7 AM San Francisco, 10 AM New York). The tournament will be casted live by yours truly on the Custom Live stream.

I hope this will bring more interest in custom maps, so everyone who can should sign up.

Game Mode

• Map: Nexus Wars by Lipschitz
• 4 vs 4

Prizes

• First: $250.00 and 1-year Curse Premium
• Second: $50.00 and 6-month Curse Premium
• Third: 3-month Curse Premium
• Participation: 1-month Curse Premium

Entry

• You have to have an available EU account.
• Your team must be registered 6 hours before the tournaments starts.
• You need to be online 30 minutes before your match.
• Register here

Map Preview

Here is a map preview by HuskyStarcraft, this is of a older version of the map so most bugs have been sorted out, this video just explains what is the goal.

World of Warcraft-like terrains by glomby

glomby managed to make a Starcraft 2 map that has the look & feel of World of Warcraft. I won't say more, just look at the video and be impressed :)

Destructible Island by Molsterr

Did you know that it was possible to change the terrain with actors? Probably ... But what about making destructible island with it! It's a cool trick that I am sure you will find a great gameplay to go with.

Terrain Showcase by CheddaCheeze

This is really impressive what's possible to do with only some doodads! Check out this terrain showcase by CheddaCheeze. As a side note, he wants to find a great project to terrain on it :)

Blizzard Featured Maps

Another round of featured maps has come.

Europe

• Baneling Arena by lotsofcolors
• THE Card Game by Clord

Barracks of the Dead: Space Slaugther by d3operator

You liked House of the Dead or Time Crisis type of game, you will be really pleased to see that this kind of game can be ported on Starcraft 2! We just need to plug a gun on the computer and the experience will be fantastic :)

Virtua SC2 Racing by Doubotis

Few days ago HaggisNZ released an impressive car movement engine using physics. Doubotis decided to use it to make a real game out of it! He created another engine that has race management (start, end, laps, boosters), car AI, saving system ... A great example of cooperation :) It will be published soon on Battle.net!

Black Space by Studio Viking

There haven't been much campaign projects yet. Black Space is a project that is currently in early stages of development but since they already have a trailer, that's worth newsing it :)

Fan Arts

Six new Starcraft fan arts have been added to the Blizzard section.

G4TV

Your maps have been featured on a video from G4TV. Even if they can't spell the authors names right (progRammer instead of progammer and maulu05 instead of malu05) it's quite remarkable and I'm glad they chose your maps!

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<span style="color: red;">Today's news continues ... read below!</span>

UPDATE: Xaragoth and Tinman are going to host a map session instead of the tournament. It's being called Custom Live. If you made a map you want them to play tell them! They will be really happy to do so.

Due to the lack of participants, the SotiS tournament is cancelled!. I realize that having only 2 days to find a team of 3 is a bit too hard. I am sorry for those who wanted to join and watch :(

In September 2010 Issue of PCGamer sc2mapster has been featured in the useful links for a mapping tutorial they did :) I've read those magazines a lot in my childhood and would never have thought working for a website being written in one of those! That's really awesome! Next time we make the front-page :)

Magic Arrow

I'm tired of people asking for my Battle.net ID so I've made a little image-tutorial for an unknown feature: the Magic Arrow!

Play Cinematic Scene by progammer

Xaragoth during his two workshop showed us how to use the previewer to do actual cinematics. However we had like no idea how to play then ingame, the only solution was to record them to make a video. progammer tackled this problem and found how to do it :) He made a test map that lets you play any of the campaign cinematic. However this area is still unexplored and there are still a lot of gray points.

        Game - Preload "CinematicScenes/Terran01.SC2Scene" Immediately
        General - Wait 0.1 Game Time seconds
        Sound - Play Terran01_ME (Unnamed) with "CinematicScenes/Terran01.SC2Scene" using "Cam_Export" for (All players)

God's Grove by Samro225am

I do not news often melee maps as I am not really able to distinct what makes a good or bad one. Samro225am for his map called God's Grove has made a clever thing: he annoted the map with all the special elements (Ramp, Xel Naga, Expands) this way even noobs as me can understand it :)

DAG - Destroy All Monster by KerenskyLI

KerenskyLI is working on a Godzilla-type map and is proud to release the first gameplay video. He is looking for beta testers in order to polish the map before publishing it out :)

First Contact by SCLegacy

sclegacy has got an impressive cinematic team. They have released 2 videos in the past months that are just awesome. They did all the models from scratch if you wonder and gave a behind the scenes explanation.

I'm going to post a real news later on, I just want to post this tournament post now as it is this sunday, in 2 days. I want you to have the time to make teams and join it :)

If you can "like" this post on bnet (even if you have a US account, it works too) so it is being featured that would be awesome. Thanks!

Custom Map Tournament

As the first tournament was a great success, we are going to hold a new one :) It will be shoutcasted by both Xaragoth and Tinman.

The tournament will start this sunday (in two days!) at 4 PM Paris time (7 AM San Francisco, 10 AM New York). It will last about 3 hours and is made to have some fun :)

You are all welcome to enter the tournament :)

Game Mode

• Map: Storm of the Imperial Sanctum (SotiS) by ekcolnovkol
• 3 vs 3

Entry

• You have to have an available EU account.
• You have up to 1 hour before the tournament starts (sunday 3 PM) to register your team!
• You have to be there on sunday from 3.30 PM to 8 PM.
• Post your Battle.net IDs here (That was a wrong link ... sorry!)

Map Preview

If you don't know the map, here is a game footage by ApolloStarcaft.

Reward

• First: 1-year Curse Premium
• Second: 6-month Curse Premium
• Third: 3-month Curse Premium

To begin with, a little image by Gorandor that made me laugh.

The moderator applications are now closed :) Thanks for all the ones who applied!

Wiki

As you probably know, we have a wiki but so far it hasn't been useful as it was abandonned. And since a wiki can be really useful we decided to revive it! We are going to do it step by step and the first one is the trigger section. All the triggers are now available on the wiki. So far there is nothing more than what's in the editor BUT it's up to you to add content.

There are three ways to help!

• Add comments! You have a question about a specific function, you have discovered something ... Post a comment. It takes 5 seconds and will help everyone out :)
• If you have knowledge of a subject, edit the article and complete it. You can put links to more explanations, how it reacts in edge cases, ...
• And finally, if you are viewing a forum thread that asks a question that would better be on the wiki, give a link to the wiki and post the answer there :)

Actor	AI	AI Advanced	Animation	Bank
Camera	Catalog	Cinematics	Conversation	Conversion
Data Table	Debug	Dialog	Environment	Game
General	Leaderboard	Logic	Math	Melee
Objective	Order	Ping	Player	Player Group
Point	Portrait	Region	Selection	Sound
Story	String	Tech Tree	Text Tag	Timer
Transmission	Trigger	UI	Unit	Unit Group
Visibility

Hide! by Bounty_98

Hide! is a pretty cool map concept where you have to hide from the slayer as long as possible. It's using a WASD third person view and looks like to be playable without lag on battle.net! I don't know if the game will be a success but I like it :)

SC2 Fan Video by HASHMAX

HASHMAX made a compilation of all the cinematics of Starcraft 2 and combined them to create a campaign trailer. This is really well done!

Tinman Introduction

Tinman is going to start shoutcasting custom maps and he made an introduction video :)

Diablo 3 Artisans

I know this is not Starcraft related but Blizzard just released a new video of Diablo 3 at the Gamescon featuring the crafting in the game. Get more infos on that on diablofans :)

I don't usually watch sc2 replays but this one is so epic! It's a game versus TT1 and MasterAsia that lasts an hour with a lot of action! It's commented by HDStarcraft and is really worth to see. You really want to stay up to the end :)

Driving System by HaggisNZ

HaggisNZ just released a proof of concept map about cars. He made a driving system using physics law that looks really nice. If you want to impress your players, just add it inside your map :)

Mercenary Battle by Redfox777

Redfox is working on a heroes + lane map that is really promising. He says that's a DotA-like map but: I am making it faster and giving it a more "actiony" feel to the game (more haloish you could say). Matches will be shorter, death time will be shorter, there are man cannons at the bases to shoot you into battle quicker and the map is much more open. All items are consumables and spawn on the map in specific places like they would in halo.

Sotis Commentaries by ApolloStarcaft

Many people are doing custom maps commentaries and that's really great, keep them coming :) Today ApolloStarcaft is commenting the map Storm of the Imperial Sanctum (Sotis) by ekcolnovkol.

There's a new minor patch (7 meg) on the US, it'll probably hit the other regions soon. daxxar took a nice picture you probably won't see often :)

Moderator Recruitment

Hello,

5 months ago we launched SC2Mapster.com at the start of the Starcraft 2 Beta. The Galaxy Editor had not yet been released at that time and we had to edit the Blizzard Maps we were given by using an MPQ editor and notepad. At that time, we had to do all editing by hand, through XML. We've come a long way since those days, now the editor has been released and the size of the community has tripled, and has been growing every passing day.

With this in mind, we need to expand on our staff in order to keep our community a friendly place! As of right now, we're looking for users to help moderate the forums, though in the future there will be other positions open, such as Wiki Editors, etc. Below is a list of basically, what you would be doing as a moderator...

Responsibilities

• Manage the incoming projects (maps & assets): accept them, tell users what they could do to improve it ...
• Move the threads that are not in the good forums
• Help people with the software: the WikiCreole markup, questions relative to the projects ...
• Handle the reported messages
• Many other things we don't have in mind: basically you are given full rights on the forums to help make them a better place!

Be an active member of the community

We don't want to pick people that are just moderating. We want to have people to help us making Mapster better. As a moderator, you see a lot of what's going on in the community and you are privileged to improve it!

• Be part of the newsing process by telling the cools things that you see.
• Make useful actions such as keeping up to date a sticky topic (a FAQ, Tutorial listing ...) or contributing to the wiki.
• Make things move! You'll get support if you want to organize things such as contests, tournaments ...

How to apply

Send a PM to Sixen and vjeux (at the same time! click the link) with

• Your age and the country you live in.
• The projects you've done (mapping and non-mapping related)
• What you have done on Mapster so far.
• What forums you would like to moderate. (Have in mind that the biggest the forum is, the more work there is to do).
• Give suggestions on how to make Mapster better :)

Make sure you meet those criteria:

• Have more than 20 posts on Mapster. We want people that are active in the community right now :)
• Be motivated to help and have the time to do it properly.

Thanks!

Blue Post

A blue post was made concerning the 30-seconds cooldown. While there's no real content, you may be happy to know they consider revising it :)

Quote:

30 Seconds Cooldown (Source)

Overall, we're not completely satisfied with the current system for launching custom games—the auto-start feature included—and we know that players have concerns, as well. Because of this, we're paying close attention to the feedback we receive each day (from viewers like you) and are currently looking for ways to improve the player experience.

While that might be considered cryptic, we're still working out all the details. We've definitely been listening, though, and will be discussing how best to iterate on custom game lobbies and Battle.net, in general.

WoW Model Exporter by chuanhsing

NiNToxicated has been working on various model im/exporters and the latest one he released was about WoW Models. However the process is really tedious as it involves grabbing files in the mpq, going through 3ds max ...

Hopefully chuanhsing one of the developers of WoWModelViewer decided to add an export to M3 (Starcraft models) feature. The process is now reaaalllyy easy, you browse your WoW models and if you want one you just click the export button. It exports all the textures and models and all you have to do is to drag them into the galaxy importer!

So far it contains the same things as NiNToxicated script: Geometry, Materials, Skin & Bones, Animations. The rest needs to be decrypted :)

Cool Models by Mari0B

Before the release of the game, Mari0B made a nice listing of all cool models that may make into the game as they have been already showed off by Blizzard. Will you be able to tell which ones are available and which ones aren't?

Debates - Troll by Rodrigo

There are trolls everywhere, and especially on Debates. Rodrigo gives us a fun definition of them :)

So far mapster has been a great place for map developers, but we needed some place for custom map players :) I opened a new forum called Map Review where you can talk about the map you played on bnet, post replays, share strategies ...

If you entered a wrong character name on battle.net, Blizzard is going to allow you to change it. The first change will be free.

Also, as a side note, Sixen is not a newbie! He is first of his 2v2 diamond league together with net, the ceo of Curse! I wish Blizzard could set-up custom games ranking so I could get my instant of fame too :)

PartyCraft Commentary by ColbyCheeze

Another strategy from ColbyCheeze, this time on a fun map PartyCraft.

Papercraft by mimilowns

Mapster is not only about maps but all the work done around Starcraft 2. Today I want to feature a papercraft made by mimilowns. He managed to make a turret with paper, this is really impressive! It looks like a real one :)

Stairs Concept by slaydon

slaydon the author of World of Starcraft will publish it soon on Battle.net, meanwhile he wants to show off a stair system. He hard-coded the position with triggers and it looks a bit chumpy but overall it works.

Valve DoTA

Icefrog, the creator of DotA AllStars joined Valve some times ago and there are details that encourage us to believe that Valve is working on a standalone DotA: they registred Dota Trademark.

Also Jon St. John, who is the voice behind Duke Nukem, wrote a twitt "Had a great time in Seattle last week recording for DotA. The guys at ValveSoftware are awesome!". Talk about it on the forums.

Ingame Cinematic Machinima by Gorandor

You played the campaign and seen the cinematics before each mission. This is all done through the Galaxy Editor and Gorandor had the great idea of using all the high quality models and make a cinematic of its own. So far this is only a test but that looks pretty awesome. Imagine this at the beginning of your map :)

Income Wars Shoutcast by ColbyCheeze

ColbyCheeze did another shout casting of a custom map. Today he gives the strategy to beat the map "Income Wars" :) If you want more commentaries on custom maps, TinMan is looking for maps to shoutcast!

Interface Contest Votes

The interface contest is over and there are 4 entries. This is few but they are of great quality.

Show Off

We are going to make a special match at the end: Vjeux (me) and Clord (the maker of the map) vs the winners. It's going to be fun!

• Smeargle STFU vs Vjeux & Clord (Replay). The game was pretty intense, Smeargle finishing with less than 100hp!

Final

The first to 2 victories wins!

• Losers of Life(0) vs Smeargle STFU(2) (Replay 1, Replay 2)

Semi Finals

In these games, The first to 2 victories wins!

• Smeargle STFU(2) vs Time Jumper(1) (Replay 1, Replay 2, Replay 3)
• The Crabs(0) vs Losers of Life(2) (Replay 1, Replay 2)

• Team MerryMakers vs Losers of Life (Replay 1, Replay 2 - dc): Disconnections due to a storm

Pools

Pool A

Smeargle STFU(3), SC'S(2), Neko Mimi Mode(1), Mapster Blaster(0)

• Mapster Blaster vs Neko Mimi Mode (Replay)
• Smeargle STFU vs SC'S (Replay)

• Mapster Blaster vs Smeargle STFU (Replay)
• Neko Mimi Mode vs SC'S

• Neko Mimi Mode vs Smeargle STFU (Replay)
• Mapster Blaster vs SC'S ( Replay)

Pool B

Time Jumper(3), The Thorminators(2), naPz(1), Falling Stars(0)

• Falling Stars vs The Thorminators
• naPz vs Time Jumper

• Falling Stars vs naPz
• The Thorminators vs Time Jumper

• The Thorminators vs naPz
• Falling Stars vs Time Jumper

Pool C

Team MerryMakers(3), Serpents of Gordon(2), Easy Company(1), Team Nublets(0)

• Easy Company vs Serpents of Gordon
• Team Nublets vs Team MerryMakers (Replay)

• Easy Company vs Team Nublets
• Serpents of Gordon vs Team MerryMakers

• Serpents of Gordon vs Team Nublets
• Easy Company vs Team MerryMakers

Pool D

Losers of Life(3), Flappy Joe(2), Nucular lunch deetacted(1), Hien(0)

• Flappy Joe vs Hien
• Losers of Life vs Nucular lunch deetacted (Replay)

• Flappy Joe vs Losers of Life (Replay)
• Hien vs Nucular lunch deetacted

• Hien vs Losers of Life (Replay)
• Flappy Joe vs Nucular lunch deetacted

Pool E

The Crabs(2), Red Apples(1), NicNapz(0), Anus

• Anus vs NicNapz
• Red Apples vs The Crabs (Replay)

• Anus vs Red Apples
• NicNapz vs The Crabs (Replay)

• NicNapz vs Red Apples
• Anus vs The Crabs

Teams

1. Mapster Blaster (Sickness.580, Otixa.174)
2. Neko Mimi Mode (Seifer.782, Helral.454)
3. Smeargle STFU (Forsen.298, Hjälten.780)
4. SC'S (SClol.852, SCrofl.197)

1. Falling Stars (SuiK.655, Cloud.997)
2. The Thorminators (TerranGhost,758, NapalmFlame.851)
3. naPz (Thukio.755, Ghosy.655)
4. Time Jumper (Trikx.818, Asuma.759)

1. Easy Company (Seffire.400, Bleedz.275)
2. Serpents of Gordon (Smithmonkey.945, Sinner.689)
3. Team Nublets (Bablo.376, Karn.202)
4. Team MerryMakers (Phaaze.598, enraze.406)

1. Flappy Joe (Orbiter.493, Neox.811)
2. Hien (Dagnus.985, Hiro.626)
3. Losers of Life (Antiga.940, fietstas.277)
4. Nucular lunch deetacted (greedape.589, acid.879)

1. Anus (JustJones.723, Phife)
2. NicNapz (Babalu.808, MartimcFly)
3. Red Apples (iOverflow.110, Slik.661)
4. The Crabs (Horrorplant.727, tedde93.205)

Organization

The first phase will be pools of 4 teams. All the teams will play against each other team in the pool. The first of each pool will then move forward. Win gives 1 point, Lose doesn't give any. In case of two teams having the same number of points, they will make a fight and the winner will move forward.

The second phase will be semi-finals and finals in BO3.

The Custom Map Tournament is going to happen this friday and there are only 8 teams registred! I organize this tournament so we can have fun playing the same map together. You can all join, even if you never played the map before :) You just have to find one partner and go!

Circle Hero Selection by SweetZombieJesus

In many maps you want a hero and it's really boring to make a nice selection. SweetZombieJesus (Nice nick btw :) ) has just released a library that let you do just that in no time. It will help you focus on the real part of the game!

Changing Editor Region by Sixen

As you know, when you upload a map in the US, only the US people can play it. But since your map is great you want everyone to play it! The current solution is to ask people to upload it for you but it is really painful. Sixen has found an easy way to change the region of your editor. This way you can upload the latest versions of the map in a few minutes. The only thing you have to do is to find people that trust you to give you their account.

1. Go to Start > Run > type regedit
2. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Blizzard Entertainment\StarCraft II Editor\Preferences
3. Right-click in the left-pane, select "New > String Value"
4. Edit the name of the Key to be, "BattleNetHost" minus the quotes.
5. Double-click that key, set the value to be "us.logon.battle.net" minus the quotes.

The server names are as follows:

• NA: us.logon.battle.net
• EU: eu.logon.battle.net
• KR: kr.logon.battle.net
• CN: cn.logon.battle.net
• SEA: sg.logon.battle.net

Comic - Terran's Quest

DarkTampellar found a comic in a russian forum and decided to translate it in English. It's called Terran's Quest and is actually pretty funny :)

Debates Video by RodrigoAlves

Rodrigo is back with a new video for his map Debates. He is crazier than ever! There is a private joke inside the video, will you discover it? :)

• Update: The contest is now 2 vs 2 so more people can join. Making a team of 3 is rather complicated. Join here.

Custom Map Tournament

I am looking for someone to shoutcast the event. Please send me a PM -fast- if you are interested.

In an effort to make Custom Maps renowned, I am going to launch the first tournament! Some games will be shoutcasted so everyone will be able to watch in real-time! The tournament will start this friday at 7 PM Paris time (10 AM San Francisco, 1 PM New York). It will last about 3 hours and is made to have some fun :)

You are all welcome to enter the tournament :)

Game Mode

• Map: THE Card Game by Clord
• 2 vs 2 (3 vs 3 The number of player has been lowered so more people could join!)
• Sudden Death: After 20 minutes, the buildings are going to lose 1hp/s until they have 1hp left.

Entry

• You have to have an available EU account.
• You have two days (Thursday 11PM) to make teams of 3.
• You have to be there on Friday from 6.30 PM to 11 PM.
• Post your Battle.net IDs here

Map Preview

If you don't know the map, here is a game footage by ISoulreaverI.

Reward

• First: 1-year Curse Premium
• Second: 6-month Curse Premium
• Third: 3-month Curse Premium
• Everyone else: 1-month Curse Premium

Terran Defense vs Infected Onslaught by Darvlok

Long time since I newsed a single player map. Here it comes! Darvlok has been working on Terran Defense vs Infected Onslaught which is a 2-player campaign-style map but which can be played alone. If you are bored to play everytime the same 10 maps on bnet, you probably want to check it out :)

Easter Eggs by BlueFacedGit

BlueFacedGit started a thread on the forums to give screenshots of the campaign easter eggs. Then people submitted more ... and here it is: newsed! :)

AC130K - Ruins by malu05

malu05 has been working on his Third Person Shooter AC130K for a while but he is stuck because of Battle.net latency. Nevertheless he did upgrade the map with many campaign doodads and it looks more awesome than ever.

I want to thanks slightlyrandom for writing this news (unfortunatly, I did not increase my english skills over-night :( )

Dialog Item Templates by Helral

So far, people that wanted to do a custom UI had to hide the default UI and code from scratch all their interface. However Helral found a way to move the default elements where you want to!

Using his Dialog Templates, you can now use any of the individual UI elements made by Blizzard independently of all the others, allowing you heaps of freedom to make the UI look just right.

To get to the projects development thread with more examples and coding stuff, look no further.

Weekly Terraining Exercise #1: Dawn of a new era by Mozared

Mozared has issued a call to arms, requesting terrainers and terrainees both join in and practice their terraining for the betterment of mankind. In the first of these weekly exercises, the theme is the Dawn of a New Era. The week is now over and there are nice entries.

Announcing Cheat Sheet by AsaPhelps

If you've been wanting to use that Announcer Voice Blizzard recently added to the editor, but haven't been able to figure out what exactly to use it for, AsaPhelps is here to help you.

He has compiled a Cheat Sheet, a list of all the Announcements and what arcane number to invoke to call them forth. A major 81, and all 'round 149.

Quote:

Level, Round, Wave, Stage, Lap, Next, Previous, Final, Bonus, Ready, Go, Stop, Start, Begin, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100, 1,000, 1,000,000, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z, Success, Failure, Cleared, Finished, Reset, You, Win, Lose, Die, Victory, Defeat, Pass, Failed, Boss, Go!, Out of Bounds, Disqualified, New Record, Hero, Item, Power Up, Secret, Reward, Player, Objective, New, Received, Discovered, Found, Revived, North, South, East, West, Choose, Chosen, First Place, Second Place, Third Place, Safe, Good Job, Nice, Warning, Danger, Caution, GG, Locked, Unlocked, Activated, Deactivated, Phase, Area, Fantastic, Hardcore, Epic, Hey, Hello, Welcome, Goodbye, Red, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange, Black, White, Gray, Brown, Teal, Pink, Light, Dark, First Blood, Double Kill, Triple Kill, Instant Kill, Headshot, Ownage, Killer, Masterful, Ganked, Humiliation, Annihilation, Fatality, Finish Him, Left, Right, Up, Down, Killed, Quit

Standard Tower Defense Commentary by colbycheeze

Another great commentary of colbycheeze on the map Standard Tower Defense by maverck. He is looking for team mates to complete some maps. If you are interested ColbyCheeZe#165 (US I guess ...)

Starcraft 2 Lead Writer Interview by Playworks

Playworks, a Singaporean gaming publication, has done an interesting interview with Brian Kindregan, the lead writer on Starcraft 2, where he reveals a bit about how the story so far came to be, and what might be in store in the future installments of the series.

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Playwork: Tell us, what was your main inspiration when forming the story and the character development?

Brian Kindregan: Well, the entire StarCraft team is made up of geeks. And we all love science fiction movies, Tvs, books, comic books and games so the range of inspiration was pretty broad. For me, the main inspiration would have to be the first StarCraft game. When you are working on something that has such a rich history, you would already have a sense of what the universe is like, what the people in it are like, where it’s all going. You can actually look at an idea and ask yourself, does this feel like a StarCraft idea.

Interview with Michael Morhaime by the LA Times

In a slightly more serious tone, the LA Times interviewed Michael Morhaime about how he got started, the history of Blizzard, and his experience with leading the company to where it is today.

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"We felt it was very likely the fee would be a deterrent for people, and that WoW would not sell as quickly as some of our previous games," he said. All of Blizzard's production decisions were based on that conservative projection.

But to Blizzard's delight, and terror, WoW sold furiously, leaving the underprepared Blizzard temporarily unable to keep stores stocked with the game. "For the whole first year, we scrambled to keep up with demand," he said. "It probably took years off of our lives."