{"id":850,"date":"2013-04-19T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shadowcovenant.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/19\/heart-of-the-swarm\/"},"modified":"2013-04-19T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T18:00:00","slug":"heart-of-the-swarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shadowcovenant.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/19\/heart-of-the-swarm\/","title":{"rendered":"Heart of the Swarm"},"content":{"rendered":"

Damn! I haven\u2019t written anything here for over a month!<\/p>\n

Well, nothing really special going on, except for a lot of work, and when I\u2019m not working at my DayJob\u2122, I\u2019m plodding along on Grey<\/em><\/a>, or playing games\u2026<\/p>\n

So, anyway, topic for today is a game I\u2019ve finished some weeks ago\u2026 <\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve been waiting a lot for this one\u2026 The first part of Starcraft II, Wings of Liberty was an awesome RTS which I enjoyed immensely playing (although I was never a big fan of the Starcraft franchise), so I was eager that this one could live up to it\u2026 and boy, did it!<\/p>\n

This one starts (obviously enough) where the other one finishes and follows Kerrigan and the Swarm\u2026 the fun thing about it is that they did the story in a way that from playing with the Terrans on the first one to playing with the Swarm on this one makes total sense and provides a different yet familiar experience\u2026<\/p>\n

Nothing that I can really say about it, except that it is a Blizzard game: fine-tuned to the maximum, polished as hell and entertaining to newcomers and hardcore players alike\u2026 I definitely recommend this one to everyone\u2026 Can\u2019t wait for \u201cLegacy of the Void\u201d to come out!<\/p>\n

One interesting thing in the \u201cMaking of\u201d DVD (for those that purchased the special edition) is that they have some video guides for the custom map creator\/editor. I was never one to play around with map editors and take much part in the mod community (although I love the concept and I hope one day to be able to build a community around a game I make, but I love programming my own stuff better), so I just saw the videos about map editing out of curiosity\u2026 And I was surprised that, although we\u2019re talking about Blizzard and they have a huge following based on their mod-capabilities, their editor isn\u2019t that impressive! Some stuff is even done better on my own SurgeEd, which is nice to see (for motivation purposes!)\u2026<\/p>\n

We at Spellcaster Studios are considering to release the SurgeEd and SurgePlayer tools to the community when we launch Grey (or around that time), and watching that video only reinforced my idea that it would be cool to see what a dedicated community could do with a tool like the SurgePlayer, although that will require us to write documentation and give at least some support\u2026 But it would be glorious to see a game not done by me using the tools we\u2019ve worked on for years!<\/p>\n

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Damn! I haven\u2019t written anything here for over a month! Well, nothing really special going on, except for a lot of work, and when I\u2019m not working at my DayJob\u2122, I\u2019m plodding along on Grey, or playing games\u2026 So, anyway, topic for today is a game I\u2019ve finished some weeks ago\u2026 I\u2019ve been waiting a […]<\/p>\n