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SC2 Map publishing woes

Alcoholix — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 11:57:20 +0000

I love SC2, I really do, it’s a great game and has some amazing tools to make custom maps. There is just one big thing lacking for custom maps, and that is the way they are sorted by Battle.net. They are sorted only by popularity, meaning people looking for custom games will allways see the most popular maps first, which are usually the maps that are longest around and best known. Newer maps, who haven’t earned a name for themselfs yet will hardly ever get noticed as they will always reside at the bottom of the list, never being able …

More work in progress for StarCraft Tactics

Alcoholix — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 23:00:48 +0000

Xenrathe of StarCraft tactics is doing a great job programming the engine and making some very cool custom abilities, here’s a preview of his latest creation, the high-end Summons: Arcturus the Lost..

StarCraft Tactics

Alcoholix — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:40:55 +0000

Aside from the Monopoly map I’m making for StarCraft 2, I also joined a team that attempts to make a StarCraft version of the old Final Fantasy Tactics game for the Playstation. My job for this project is to make the user interface. I’m planning to keep it as true to the original as possible, but ofc adjusted to fit into the StarCraft sci-fi theme. My first goal is to recreate the battle ui, which is going pretty smooth already. Here’s a quick demo of how it looks in-game.

A tour around the board

Alcoholix — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 22:52:23 +0000

A demo of the movement system for the sc2 Monopoly map

Rolling the dice demo

Alcoholix — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 08:25:06 +0000

Just a quick video of the proof-of-concept for a dice rolling mechanism, made with the StarCraft2 editor

How to import custom textures into StarCraft 2 editor

Alcoholix — Fri, 14 May 2010 22:05:21 +0000

So, I’m releasing some custom texture packs for StarCraft 2 soon, and I thought I’d write a tutorial on how to use them inside the SC2 editor to accompany the texture sets. First thing you need to do is to click the import button, the one I circled in red here. A new window will open up, from the menu click on Data -> Import Files (or click ctrl-I), now browse to the folder containing your textures, and select the textures you want to use. Don’t forget to import a white texture, you will need it later in this tutorial. …