I'm excited if Blizzard takes control of the wiki articles and will be happy to contribute. I really think we should de-couple from Curse and Mapster should be a Blizzard project and they should pay all of us in cookies and ice cream :).
Also, hosting under Curse seems so tenuous with our site almost being closed a few years ago. All these maps...all these tutorials just gone. Blizzard should really purchase this site or negotiate it away from Curse. Probably a lot of rules of conduct and licenses that would become an issue...but hey its a discussion thread!
Honestly, I don't think we should make any new stuff until the Editor is updated. Until then, Blizzard should make tutorials and use our old stuff for guidance or if still relevant just take. If they really want to get new people into this scene, then they gotta make the Editor very very non-programmer newb friendly or at least make some kind of Code-Academy type Interface. I trudged through a lot of the tutorials to learn basic stuff and the UI for the Editor while not totally different is not the same. The folks who did all these tutorials were amazing and did a good job, but I spent way too much time learning about Dialog boxes when I should of been learning simple triggers!! Lol what a waste of time!! I am also not a programmer nor a SCI/WC3 veteran so everything was so new and crazy for me...just the idea of triggers/events versus actions, conditions and variables proved challenging for me to wrap my head around. Now I get all this silliness.
Blizzard has a opportunity with Lotv to get the Editor right. It also has Mapster a group of diehard SC2 fans who have stuck around through neglect and isolation for the last four years and produced some pretty awesome games, campaigns and documentation.
This person should just use our existing wiki and not start from scratch. A lot of the tutorials are very clear and well-written, but just need to be updated to the current editor UI. I'm sure something can be worked out with Curse or Blizzard should just absorb Mapster to have the wiki available on its server. It seems silly to start from the beginning, especially since it will be an epic task for one person to document the craziness of the editor. I mean the sheer numbers of hours put in by this community to document the editor and provide tutorials has be in the upper thousand of hours.
Also...a really good beginner's tutorial (for non-programmers) start to finish would be awesome with a map theme e.g. campaign, tower defense, rpg, squad tactics, etc. I'm thinking a video-tutorial would be the best format.
Pretty awesome if Blizzard followed through with this...I'm already a Blizzard fan-boy, but if this happened I would become a Blizzard fanatic!!
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I'm excited if Blizzard takes control of the wiki articles and will be happy to contribute. I really think we should de-couple from Curse and Mapster should be a Blizzard project and they should pay all of us in cookies and ice cream :).
Also, hosting under Curse seems so tenuous with our site almost being closed a few years ago. All these maps...all these tutorials just gone. Blizzard should really purchase this site or negotiate it away from Curse. Probably a lot of rules of conduct and licenses that would become an issue...but hey its a discussion thread!
Honestly, I don't think we should make any new stuff until the Editor is updated. Until then, Blizzard should make tutorials and use our old stuff for guidance or if still relevant just take. If they really want to get new people into this scene, then they gotta make the Editor very very non-programmer newb friendly or at least make some kind of Code-Academy type Interface. I trudged through a lot of the tutorials to learn basic stuff and the UI for the Editor while not totally different is not the same. The folks who did all these tutorials were amazing and did a good job, but I spent way too much time learning about Dialog boxes when I should of been learning simple triggers!! Lol what a waste of time!! I am also not a programmer nor a SCI/WC3 veteran so everything was so new and crazy for me...just the idea of triggers/events versus actions, conditions and variables proved challenging for me to wrap my head around. Now I get all this silliness.
Blizzard has a opportunity with Lotv to get the Editor right. It also has Mapster a group of diehard SC2 fans who have stuck around through neglect and isolation for the last four years and produced some pretty awesome games, campaigns and documentation.
This person should just use our existing wiki and not start from scratch. A lot of the tutorials are very clear and well-written, but just need to be updated to the current editor UI. I'm sure something can be worked out with Curse or Blizzard should just absorb Mapster to have the wiki available on its server. It seems silly to start from the beginning, especially since it will be an epic task for one person to document the craziness of the editor. I mean the sheer numbers of hours put in by this community to document the editor and provide tutorials has be in the upper thousand of hours.
Also...a really good beginner's tutorial (for non-programmers) start to finish would be awesome with a map theme e.g. campaign, tower defense, rpg, squad tactics, etc. I'm thinking a video-tutorial would be the best format.
Pretty awesome if Blizzard followed through with this...I'm already a Blizzard fan-boy, but if this happened I would become a Blizzard fanatic!!