Congratulation to the contest winners. There must be reasons why they are chosen. Some of them may be hard to understand from our perspective, but we must give the benefit of the doubt to Blizzard. After all, they are the one who invested ten years into this game.
Walk away with what we have learned, and make better maps.
Its actually a interesting question. Generally we have a dynamic skybox that follow you around all the time, with a farclip of only 50 and the skybox that is just in the high end of 49. When you move up to windows in the ship where you can see parts of the ships exterior we dynamically extend the viewdistance to 200 and reduce the depth of field (to 0) so you can see everything. With the skybox following you it makes the optical flow match so that it looks like the stars are far far away. But if it wasn't for the exterior parts we could easily keep the farclip at 50 all the time.
Thank you! That was really helpful. I can't wait until Blizzard releases the Input Lag Fix and be able to play your map on BNet.
(Yes, they explicitly said that they are working on it.)
What is Typing of the Zerg? Watch this video of the map in previous version.
Hello folks,
It has been almost a week since the initial release of this map. The feedbacks have been very helpful and I really appreciate them. Out of them, the lack of replayability has been standing out the most. To address this issue, I have added the following features into the map.
Combo Multiplier
Multiply the score you gain when your combo reaches a certain amount.
Result Panel
A detailed result panel that analyze your performance in three categories. Speed, Accuracy and Endurance.
Random Generated Phrases
Phrases like the ones above are randomly generated.
Feedback
Feel free to try the map and tell me what do you think. I am looking for more words and sentence structures to put into the game. Or are there any other stats that you want to see on the result panel?
It is now available on the US server and will be available on EU server soon.
Thank you very much for the feedbacks. They are really helpful and I appreciate them greatly.
Replayablity is my current #1 priority, I really like the randomly generated phrase idea. I will work something out asap.
Regarding EU release, it will have to wait until this Friday or till we get some clarification from Blizzard. Personally, I would love to opensource this as there are many better mapmakers in the community. But I am not certain if that is allowed by the rules. I will keep looking into it.
Sorry about the lag, the performance took a hit while I kept adding stuffs into the game. I will try my best to keep the optimization tight and keep a balance of features vs performance.
Thank you. Yes, the current version is built specifically with the contest in mind. A showcase of what the engine is capable of and as polished as possible. Replayability is my first priority in the coming version.
At 200 latency, I have not noticed any delay issue myself. However, I am biased since I have played the map almost a hundred times by now. The most troublesome issue that I ran into is actually the texture memory. Before, the game had to be ran at Medium/Medium, or else my graphics card with 512MB memory simply can't handle the load. I had to scale back a lot and do some optimization before it can run smoothly at Ultra/Ultra.
A typing game inspired by Typing of the Dead. You defend against waves of Zergs by typing the words above their head before they reach the blue line.
How to Play
The game is available at the US server already. You can find it by searching "Typing of the Zerg".
Performance
The game runs at constant 25 fps in Ultra/Ultra with my moderate gaming pc.
Word list
Right now, the game uses the 50 US states and the name of the US presidents as its word list. I am open to new ideas.
Coming Soon
This is an updated version of the map that was submitted to Blizzard contest. More stages and features are coming soon. Any feedbacks will be appreciated.
I have finished the cooperative mode for the campaign level, Belly of the Beast. It now supports up to 4 players. You can find it by going to Multiplayer -> Create Game -> Search "CoOp". If you encounter any bugs, feel free to report it here. I am also open to suggestions for the next map.
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@Acemore: Go
This.
Congratulation to the contest winners. There must be reasons why they are chosen. Some of them may be hard to understand from our perspective, but we must give the benefit of the doubt to Blizzard. After all, they are the one who invested ten years into this game.
Walk away with what we have learned, and make better maps.
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EU or US?
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Very nice combination of terrain and camera. Reminds me of Diablo.
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Thank you! That was really helpful. I can't wait until Blizzard releases the Input Lag Fix and be able to play your map on BNet.
(Yes, they explicitly said that they are working on it.)
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Awesome work!
I have a question. How do you guys deal with the skybox? Did you find a way to show it without abusing the far clip?
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What is Typing of the Zerg? Watch this video of the map in previous version.
Hello folks,
It has been almost a week since the initial release of this map. The feedbacks have been very helpful and I really appreciate them. Out of them, the lack of replayability has been standing out the most. To address this issue, I have added the following features into the map.
Combo Multiplier
Multiply the score you gain when your combo reaches a certain amount.
Result Panel
Random Generated Phrases
Feedback
Feel free to try the map and tell me what do you think. I am looking for more words and sentence structures to put into the game. Or are there any other stats that you want to see on the result panel?
It is now available on the US server and will be available on EU server soon.
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Thank you very much for the feedbacks. They are really helpful and I appreciate them greatly.
Replayablity is my current #1 priority, I really like the randomly generated phrase idea. I will work something out asap.
Regarding EU release, it will have to wait until this Friday or till we get some clarification from Blizzard. Personally, I would love to opensource this as there are many better mapmakers in the community. But I am not certain if that is allowed by the rules. I will keep looking into it.
Sorry about the lag, the performance took a hit while I kept adding stuffs into the game. I will try my best to keep the optimization tight and keep a balance of features vs performance.
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@tigerija: Go
Thank you. Yes, the current version is built specifically with the contest in mind. A showcase of what the engine is capable of and as polished as possible. Replayability is my first priority in the coming version.
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@progammer: Go
Done. Just made a page for it.
At 200 latency, I have not noticed any delay issue myself. However, I am biased since I have played the map almost a hundred times by now. The most troublesome issue that I ran into is actually the texture memory. Before, the game had to be ran at Medium/Medium, or else my graphics card with 512MB memory simply can't handle the load. I had to scale back a lot and do some optimization before it can run smoothly at Ultra/Ultra.
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Thank you. I have uploaded an updated video that is much better quality. Thank you Vjeux for all the advice.
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The video is up.
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Typing of the Zerg
A typing game inspired by Typing of the Dead. You defend against waves of Zergs by typing the words above their head before they reach the blue line.
More details here.
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Typing of the Zerg
A typing game inspired by Typing of the Dead. You defend against waves of Zergs by typing the words above their head before they reach the blue line.
How to Play
The game is available at the US server already. You can find it by searching "Typing of the Zerg".
Performance
The game runs at constant 25 fps in Ultra/Ultra with my moderate gaming pc.
Word list
Right now, the game uses the 50 US states and the name of the US presidents as its word list. I am open to new ideas.
Coming Soon
This is an updated version of the map that was submitted to Blizzard contest. More stages and features are coming soon. Any feedbacks will be appreciated.
Credits
Thank you to my testers, Johnny and Dugi.
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That looks awesome.
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Hey folks,
I have finished the cooperative mode for the campaign level, Belly of the Beast. It now supports up to 4 players. You can find it by going to Multiplayer -> Create Game -> Search "CoOp". If you encounter any bugs, feel free to report it here. I am also open to suggestions for the next map.