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Elite Agents by Trieva

Blizzard recently spotlighted EliteAgents by Trieva ...

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In Elite Agents you take control of a squad of three marines and attempt to outmaneuver and outthink your opponent, taking out his troops and capturing map objectives. You decide what kind of composition you deploy with, from the beefy ‘heavy’ class to the versatile ‘scout’. Game creator Trevor ‘Trieve’ Quach gives players with different playstyles the tools they need to dispatch their opponent as they see fit. If you like the idea of blasting apart several marines in one shot, the rocket launcher is the way to go. If you prefer finesse in your combat, flash grenades will be your tool of choice, disabling and blinding your enemy.

The goal of the game is to earn points by eliminating marines, capturing the flag, and holding the hill. You can only move one marine at a time and each marine can only take a limited number of actions per turn. Moving, attacking, switching weapons - everything deducts from your total action value, so planning ahead is a must for you squad to be the most effective.

Be sure to read the rest of the article for a fun author interview!

Earth 2150 by Zealkg

This project is a tribute to the old Earth 2150 RTS game, made in 2000. Gameplay is separated into two different venues, one is the strategic map, which is more risk like, where you have access to a global world map with upgradeable bases that can be attacked and conquered. The other side of the game is the battle map, which you enter when you attack another players base.

Update: Map Night is happening once again! Get your maps tested, find new and exciting games, and have lots of fun!

Hive Keeper by Bibendus

Hive Keeper is a map we've been following and showcasing for three years now; Blizzard has decided to jump on the bandwagon and highlight this awesome project! Again, the map was inspired by Dungeon Keeper, created in the Starcraft Universe, but kept similar to the original unit roles and abilities. Stay tuned to the Battle.net article for an interview with Bibendus!

Update:: Want to get feedback on your maps for free? Want to play lots of fun maps with the community? Of course you do, so join us for Map Night!

Heroes of the Storm BlizzCon 2013 Coverage by Sixen

Once again, I had the chance to go to BlizzCon this year, and as usual, it was a blast. I spent a lot of my time focusing on Heroes of the Storm, and as such, was given the opportunity to interview game director, Dustin Browder. Aside from my interview, feel free to check out the rest of my videos, which include panel recaps, and my initial thoughts on Heroes! For other BlizzCon coverage, be sure to check out our information dump.

Hey folks,

After a long wait, we are happy to announce the addition of Amazon.ca Gift Cards to the CurseForge Store! No longer are Canadian authors locked into PayPal for their point expenditures; we have $10, $20, $50, and $100 Gift Cards in stock now.

Whiteout by Crainy

Some of you might remember CrainyCreation from his feature-length machinima, Rebirth of the Swarm. He's just released his Blizzcon movie contest entry, which is a short video aimed at approaching the Heart of the Swarm "Ingame" cinematic quality. There's lots of custom animation and fancy compositing work that went into this one, and it shows.

Give the video a look and make sure you leave your thoughts in the thread here!

We'll be posting a more in-depth article about all the news from Blizzcon in the near future, so keep an eye out!

Blizzcon 2013

Hey guys! As many of you probably know, Blizzcon 2013 is going on as we speak, and it's awesome! For all the latest updates, please keep an eye on this thread.

Here's some of the biggest announcements and videos so far. Again, be sure to check this thread for the full list of details!

First of all, the Starcraft 2 Arcade is now free, meaning anybody can play your maps even if they haven't purchased starcraft 2. Next, the level cap has been raised to 35 and you'll get some brand new Carbot decals and portraits. And hey, if you don't like those, you can make your own with the new custom clan-decal system! Speaking of clans, groups and clans can now schedule events within the client to make grouping up easier than ever. Next, we've got a new map pool and a remastered version of the soundtrack!

More information will be added as it becomes available! Click here for the complete list of what's happened so far!

More gameplay videos are available here.

Update: Want your map tested for free? Want to have tons of fun playing cool Arcade games? Look no further than Map Night!

I'll be heading to BlizzCon! If you want any questions answered about Heroes of the Storm, leave them in a comment here.

Warcraft: Alliance and Horde by StevenLuo

Watching this video blew my mind.. Have you ever wondered what Warcraft 4 may look or feel like? This is essentially it... It's a World of Warcraft RTS game that is certainly worth your time.

Update #2: Have fun and provide feedback for arcade games! Join us for Map Night!

Update: Blizzard All-Stars has been renamed Heroes of the Storm, and will be covered at Blizzcon! Read more info here.

Street Empires Update by IggNight

Some of you might remember the Street Empires map we featured several months ago. The map has since gone through major changes, and IggNight has created an update video to show off the new content. Check it out below, and make sure you leave your feedback in the thread here!

Hi Everyone,

Today we launch our new store! This is the first in a series of releases that will revamp the whole of CurseForge and all the sites powered by it. Through this we'll be modernizing the layout and style of the sites as well as addressing the long standing concerns many of our authors have had.

It's important to know that many actions related to points need to be completed from within the new store. Purchasing points, viewing your totals and history, as well as transferring points to other users. Project reward splits are still configured on the current site.

Below you'll find a nice screenshot of the general layout of the new store. We already have a list of improvements for the next iteration. You have my word that they'll be here soon, but please give us your feedback as well. We'd love to know what you guys think.

The new store can be found at store.curseforge.com.

Hi all,

We've taken the store offline for maintenance. Don't worry, this has no effect on your points or your orders. It will be back online later today.

This past week, Blizzard decided to launch a new spotlight series for custom maps on the SC2 engine, alongside the usual Arcade Spotlight, this is the Arcade Workshop. The idea behind this series is to showcase projects that have potential, but are still in need of further TLC. You can think of this as an "early preview spotlight," in a sense, as most times you'll want to help beta test the games that are shown here.

Shape War TD by Talon

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For our first workshop, we’re looking at a game that originated on the European server: Shape War TD. The first time we looked at the game, we were amazed by its completely unique look. Aside from just a few StarCraft II elements, you would never know it was created using the same engine. We also liked how you could quickly check up on your opponents with a single click to see how they were doing without having to scroll around a large map.

Aside from the small excerpt from Blizzard above, the game is designed to be a "pretty straightforward acrade game," says the author, in that it is a very simple PvP-styled Tower Defense. In total, there are just a few towers with basic tower concepts and also just a few enemy types, in addition to 70 waves of enemies that you will likely never survive to see.

Update: Come join Map Night! Now available in both EU and US time zones!

Be sure to hit the books with Blizzard's Starcraft back to school promotion!

To the Moon by Highsouled

This project is exactly what it sounds like: the Starcraft version of To the Moon. Overall, it's about a half size of the original game as the original it too big to convert everything. Regardless, it's extremely impressive and certainly worth checking out!

Earlier today, we migrated to a shiny new stack on shiny new servers. As part of this, we're also migrating the repository services, which will remain offline for a little while longer.

Not to worry, your repositories are safe and sound, we're just doing the repository server move out of band of the main migration.

I'll update this post once repository services are back online.

Update: Repo services have been restored.

Update: If you have an iPhone and use Blizzard's mobile authenticator app, you might want to read this information before upgrading to iOS 7.

Arcade Highlight: Starcraft Subjection

Some of you will probably remember StarCraft: Subjection, the 8-mission, fully voiced, single-player campaign map created by our very own Gradius. It's recently been featured in the arcade, so if you haven't played it yet, make sure to give it a try!

And of course, you can check out Blizzard's video below.

You can click here to discuss the project, or click here to visit Blizzard's article on the map.

Update: Interested in playing maps with the community? Then join us for for map night! You can click here for the US & European times.

Big congratulations to the StarCraft Universe team for getting fully funded on Kickstarter! Now... Let's take a look at the Curse of Tristram.

The Curse of Tristram by egodbout

Another project that has been around Mapster for quite some time is the Curse of Tristram. For those of you who are unaware of the project, it's a custom rendition of Diablo II, that follows the story and is using the same terrain and locations as the original game, a very cool "total converion"-styled project. Egod has just launched a Kickstarter of his own...

If you want to support the project, you can donate to the kickstarter here. If you're not feeling like donating, you can still help the project immensely by spreading the word and sharing the link with as many people as possible; the more popular the project gets on kickstarter, the more exposure it will get, and the more people will donate. If you feel like discussing the project, or you want to see the original trailer, you can check out the project page here.

StarCraft Universe Final Testament by Upheaval Arts

The Upheaval Arts team has been hard at work on some new content that has just been released to the public: a multiplayer end-game boss battle. This marks the first release of SCU multiplayer PvE content and plenty more to come. There's only one week left to help fund the project, so gogogo!

Art Tools Public Beta

Some of the you more artistically-inclined mappers have gotten a chance to help test the sc2 art tools during the closed testing. Now, the tools are publicly available! For those who don't know, these tools are the 3ds Max plugins used by Blizzard to create models for the game. If you're interested in making models for sc2, you might want to check them out!

If you want to read the official announcement, or download the tools, you can click here. If you want to discuss the tools, you can click here.

Archive Destroyers by SoulTaker916

Archive Destroyers is a remake of the classic StarCraft 1 game, Nexus Destroyers. Two teams duke it out in a micro-intensive battle, complete with army progression, upgrades, abilities, and stronger units. Think of this project as a melee map without the macro; you are able to select the type of army you want, and have at it!

Starcraft Universe

A lot of you probably remember Starcraft Universe. For those who don't, the game is a huge multiplayer online RPG that focuses on story, combat, and multiplayer raiding.

With Blizzard's blessing, the team has decided to launch a kickstarter campaign to raise money for the project. Watch the video below!

If you want to support the project, you can donate to the kickstarter here. If you're not feeling like donating, you can still help the project immensely by spreading the word and sharing the link with as many people as possible; the more popular the project gets on kickstarter, the more exposure it will get, and the more people will donate. If you feel like discussing the project, or you want to see the original trailer, you can check out the project thread here.

Big thanks to Renee for putting together the list of 2.0.10 Undocumented Editor changes. On a related note to today's post, feel free to check out my latest as well.

Aeon of Storms by ekcolnovkol

Previously known as Storm of the Imperial Sanctum, this game was once all over the place, but seems to have since died down. Believe it or not, the game is still being worked on; for those curious about the recent happenings, check out this very interesting [music] video about the updates.

Castle Ulrezaj by Nanakey

CastleUlrezaj is a single player cross-boundary A-RPG which contains an integrated story and multiple areas waiting for you to explore. In this game, you will control Tassadar, the legendary hero to face Ulrezaj, one of the most dangerous terrorist in Protoss history. Now a horror criminal plot is impending on this planet. The entile sector will fall into endless darkness unless you remedy the situation. You need to fight against the destructive war machines, weird alien organisms and most vicious psi-power in the cosmos. You won't be alone, two powerful allies will fight with you. Find the magical relics and ancient weapons from another world to enhance your power.

Also, be sure to read Blizzard's interview with the author!

For those of you curious as to how the Hellbat infomercial was created, check out the .

Zero's Beta Open RPG by Zero0018

This map is reminiscent of the old StarCraft 1 Open RPG's... There is one friendly AI faction and 8 hostile factions, in addition to the 6 player characters. Each hero hero may achieve a maximum level of 110, all of which is saved in bank files. The project also sports is a custom camera system which can be rotated at your convenience.

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Back Story:
Your brood mother awakens on an unknown planet due to terran activity on the planet. She doesn’t remember how she arrived or how she got there. She is badly injured and cannot create a full brood and has lost all her genetic memories. While she doesn’t have the psychic strength to build and control a full army, she has enough energy to build a few specialized independent brooding that are able to adapt to any situation.
The larva’s purpose is to search for why they are on this planet, recover the brood mother’s genetic memories and to reestablish the Brood. They can change into different zerg creatures at will only as long as they have the genetic memories to do so. They can also learn different abilities to fight the many creatures they will face.

Motivations for the larva moving forward:
To re-establish the Brood To recover the original genetic memories of the Brood mother and learn their purpose on this planet To subjugate new and various life forms into the swarm To suppress other zerg broods on the planet and make them fall under control of the brood mother To reclaim locations of hatcheries and territories so the brood mother can rebuild her doom army To kill the different terran factions on the planet and reclaim any genetic material and xel-naga artifacts from them To kill any protoss that might be on the planet

For more information, check out the project thread!

For those of you curious as to how the Hellbat infomercial was created, check out the .

Hellbat Infomercial by PrettyAwesome

This may just be the first infomercial I legitimately enjoyed... Introducing the Hellbat, from the HasuCraft Film Series Project!

Age of Extinction by Pottfish

In this base defense RPG game, you choose one of five heroes, each complete with an experience system and talent tree, in addition to one of six game difficulties. Play through to game to earn points that save through every playthrough, 30 achievements to unlock abilities, global boosts, passive buffs and titles, and tons of loot! In addition, you can alternatively choose to play campaign mode that plays off of decisions you make within the game.