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StarCraft Game Development, Interview With Dustin Browder

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StarCraftWire.net recently posted an Fansite QA with Dustin Browder from earlier in celebration of their website launch, and have continued to post updated information from the Blizzard WWI 2008 in Paris. The most recent published article is an interview with Dustin Browder, where they talk about the Map Editor, map protection, modding, extra races, the complicated Mothership, the Queen and much, much more.

Anyone interested in the future of StarCraft II or the current developments of StarCraft will probably find it an interesting read. The drawback of the length is made up by the in-depth answers.
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Published: 536 days 5 hours ago | Interview | Gaming | PC
 
 

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Leord - 536 days 9 hours ago
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I'm wondering if they might take them up on that, I mean posting the map editor before the game, either to the public, or to the modmakers out there. I think he talks of "mod makers" in a general term, like "map modifires" rather than ACTUAL mods, such as Total Conversion stuff....
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SCFreelancer - 536 days 8 hours ago
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Well, that depends on how you define "before" the game. I think its quite likely that they will make it available with the beta. The only thing is, is that I am not sure if they did so with the Warcraft 3 beta, I would have to dig up that cd.
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Leord - 536 days 6 hours ago
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Cool! You got a War3 beta CD?

That's wicked.

Yeah, sure, that's a point. I was kind of hoping for a tool like spore, released well before everything else =P
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Cogo - 536 days 9 hours ago
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Man, that's really annoying! Why is my standard set to "Open Zone"? I'm no "fanboy" that's preferring one particular media! =(

Edit:

Ok, now I fixed the setting. Interesting, you get a full set of comments in each zone per news article? Wow!
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Leord - 536 days 9 hours ago
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Indeed you do =)

I have never posted in the Open zone, so that was actually new for me as well...
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SCFreelancer - 536 days 8 hours ago
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I am posting here for a while now, but I have no clue what you mean by "open zone"... would you, or anyone for that matter, explain to me what you are talking about?
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Terrice - 536 days 5 hours ago
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@Freelancer, as I understand it the Open Zone is a more lightly moderated discussion as opposed to the Gamer Zone, which is aimed at "members who want a more friendly and civilized discussion".
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kalos - 536 days 9 hours ago
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Sadly no release date, so it isn't the platinium-coated dream interview of miracles :P Still worth a look, there's good info about the balancing concepts.
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Leord - 536 days 9 hours ago
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Yeah, actually, I saw the Blizzard CM Karune give a comment on how ready the game was on the SCW.net WWI coverage as well... No dates of course though, they never give out dates =P
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SCFreelancer - 536 days 8 hours ago
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@3.1: did you know that they used to do so in the past? I think the last game they did this with was... Diablo 2.

Edit: just checked it. Blizzard put up a release date for Diablo 2 in my Starcraft cd cover. Its not exact to the date it says: expected in 1998 :) We all know what happened next: the game was released in June of the they 2000! Its probably better the way it is now: no promises.
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Maticus - 536 days 7 hours ago
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Tis why Blizz never give release dates anymore :)
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Terrice - 536 days 6 hours ago
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Yes, waiting can be the hardest part.

Fortunately, or unfortunately (depending on how you look at it), players have gotten considerable more info about Starcraft II when compared to other games in development.
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Leord - 536 days 5 hours ago
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Right you are. I do actually remember that...
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