I got an assignment for one of my classes: "Select and prepare something to teach the class in which you are an expert (this is rather open ended; you can teach about yourself, a hobby you have, something religious, anything. However, you will have to ensure it is taught well – and that your classmates understand and can teach back what you have taught.) Post a summary of what you taught, and how you think it went to moodle."
Don't worry about what 'moodle' is. ;)
Anyway, the first thing that came to mind was StarCraft II. It'd be unique and creative to bring the class. Mind you, they are not all familiar with SC1, so I'll probably have to do something basic. I was thinking of asking someone if I could use their melee map, edit it so it has a 5 minute timer (so I can teach in 5 minutes), and then run it against a Very Easy AI and show the class.
However, I'm not sure if this is the best way to do it. So, my question is to you: How would you teach StarCraft II in 5 minutes?
Yea, make a video. Record a melee game on some map and show a couple of interesting scenes (start building phase, expanding, scouting, fights) and talk about:
Successor of SC1, a highly successful video game legend.
Being played competitively. International tournaments where the best players fight for tens of thousands of $$ price money. Some become professional and live off that
Compare it a lot to chess:
- 3 different parties instead of black/white
- Much greater scale
- Real time instead of turn based, thus decisions need to be made in a split second
- Instead of 16 units each player controls up to hundreds of units.
- Limited visibility requires you to gauge your enemy's tactic instead of seeing everything.
- Special abilities, height differences, counters, air/ground, so many more factors that makes this game even more complex than chess.
Professional players with up to 400 actions per minute to play this game! (). That's like driving 10 cars at once.
I guess if you explain a little bit what's happening in the video (so they actually get to know what game you're talking about) then you're already exceeding the 5 minutes :P
I can do it in 3 seconds: Terran is OP. Zerg is not :D
Seriously: Speak about sc lore and history etc as well as the actual game. Show them not just melee maps, but also clips from lots of custom maps (onetwo could help here. His map trailers are O_o). Also, talk about contests etc such as MLG, IEM, etc.
Rememeber to tell them it's South Korea. And do tell them these are the guys without dictatorship and nuclear weapons.
PS: I wouldn't mention custom games too much. Bascially custom games are just fun. You could also talk 5 minutes about Leage of Legends, the Sims or Diablo II in this case.
Even though we're all happy that we have a nice map editor and can make really cool games, in the end they're just games and don't make Starcraft unique.
It's the competitive scene that makes it an art, a sport and a sensation.
Yeah. I was thinking more of a 'And sc2 also has a large collection of mappers who can make epic maps such as this *20 second clip of some maps before going onto something else*'
And yeah, i tend to forget that theres 2 koreas now xD
Hum. I'm having a problem with my newer laptop here. I have Windows 7, and naturally, it does not have Windows Movie Maker like XP. I want to edit the videos I made with Fraps, but I'm not sure what video editor to use. Anyone got any suggestions?
I got an assignment for one of my classes: "Select and prepare something to teach the class in which you are an expert (this is rather open ended; you can teach about yourself, a hobby you have, something religious, anything. However, you will have to ensure it is taught well – and that your classmates understand and can teach back what you have taught.) Post a summary of what you taught, and how you think it went to moodle."
Don't worry about what 'moodle' is. ;)
Anyway, the first thing that came to mind was StarCraft II. It'd be unique and creative to bring the class. Mind you, they are not all familiar with SC1, so I'll probably have to do something basic. I was thinking of asking someone if I could use their melee map, edit it so it has a 5 minute timer (so I can teach in 5 minutes), and then run it against a Very Easy AI and show the class.
However, I'm not sure if this is the best way to do it. So, my question is to you: How would you teach StarCraft II in 5 minutes?
Starcraft melee games?
Yea, make a video. Record a melee game on some map and show a couple of interesting scenes (start building phase, expanding, scouting, fights) and talk about:
I guess if you explain a little bit what's happening in the video (so they actually get to know what game you're talking about) then you're already exceeding the 5 minutes :P
Hmm... that's an interesting idea!
I can do it in 3 seconds: Terran is OP. Zerg is not :D
Seriously: Speak about sc lore and history etc as well as the actual game. Show them not just melee maps, but also clips from lots of custom maps (onetwo could help here. His map trailers are O_o). Also, talk about contests etc such as MLG, IEM, etc.
Also, talk about korea :D
Rememeber to tell them it's South Korea. And do tell them these are the guys without dictatorship and nuclear weapons.
PS: I wouldn't mention custom games too much. Bascially custom games are just fun. You could also talk 5 minutes about Leage of Legends, the Sims or Diablo II in this case. Even though we're all happy that we have a nice map editor and can make really cool games, in the end they're just games and don't make Starcraft unique. It's the competitive scene that makes it an art, a sport and a sensation.
The custom games are mostly just fun.
@s3rius: Go
Yeah. I was thinking more of a 'And sc2 also has a large collection of mappers who can make epic maps such as this *20 second clip of some maps before going onto something else*'
And yeah, i tend to forget that theres 2 koreas now xD
For starters, Blackboard is better than Moodle.
Don't forget to mention the aspect of resource management.
Hum. I'm having a problem with my newer laptop here. I have Windows 7, and naturally, it does not have Windows Movie Maker like XP. I want to edit the videos I made with Fraps, but I'm not sure what video editor to use. Anyone got any suggestions?
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Should be for Win 7 and Vista.
Nice! Thank you! It seems to work just fine.
Add this if you want
http://kotaku.com/5623033/u-of-florida-adds-starcraft-studies
Lol my AP classes use Moodle too. Its bleh.
I believe for Windows 7 you have to use Windows Live Movie Maker or something like that.
Nope. Windows Movie Maker 2.6 works fine as far as I can tell.