Is it authentic? It seems to me to be a side-scroller inspired by StarCraft and an RTS. Plus the designer of Starcraft was 10 years old in 1984, according to wikipedia. It doesn't seem right/
Also (even though it was already said that this is a parody), the first alphas of starcraft1 were based on the warcraft 2 engine. Screenshots are available:
I remember that. I'm glad they ditched it. On a side note, once WC3 came out, the marine/firebat/zergling/hydralisk models made me thing SC2 was imminent on the WC3 engine. Guess they didn't, and just went for a new engine entirely.
This kind of post is probably against the guidelines. It does not engage any intellectual curiosity, and probably falls under:
>Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
This isn't meat & potatoes, this is cotton candy. There is already lots of it on Reddit.
Basically this is the kind of Reddit-like submission that has turned y-combinator alumni off from HN.
Really well done. I like when there are post like this because, even thought it's not about technology or startup, it's still related to hacking. I'm sad when people down this talking about reddit because this post is clearly different. It has historical lessons in it and even thought you might not like gaming or starcraft, known that this game is still played today by thousand of players worldwide and that it is more than 10 years old.
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( I think they abused ships for the flying units somehow, even though I am unsure about the precise details).
I think this is a cool detail to know, and it makes me curious if the first alphas for starcraft 2 were maps and hacks of starcraft 1 or warcraft 3 :)
http://sclegacy.com/editorials/34-general/270-starcraft-evol...
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And they sell cassette versions! I've been thinking of writing one myself, just for fun.
http://www.bogost.com/games/guru_meditation.shtml
for Atari VCS (2600) and iPhone.
As a fan of StarCraft I must say that a lot of detail went into the making of this parody. The protoss turret sound at 1:05 cracked me up.
Here is the awesome 8-bit theme which could have been its soundtrack : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3in8Z-w-uHY
>Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
This isn't meat & potatoes, this is cotton candy. There is already lots of it on Reddit.
Basically this is the kind of Reddit-like submission that has turned y-combinator alumni off from HN.