SC2Mapster

EDIT: There was a bug with the IRC Channel Flags last night so only registered users could join the channel. It's all fixed now, the channel is open to anyone and everyone.

Beta ends tomorrow! (19th July). This second phase has been really bad for the mappers. Many of the maps broke in some way or another, the popularity boost has been removed but the system hasn't changed, Europe did not get custom map publishing and leaderboards textures are messed up.

Let's hope Blizzard will make a smoother release and give more attentions to the custom maps.

Wild Aiurfrica by 38dedo

I've seen many many maps since I first played Wacraft 3 custom games and I have to say, this one is really a total new concept. Instead of controlling a hero or lead an army, you are in the skin of an animal in Africa. This is an incredible concept! You have to balance your hunger, thirst and rest with some nice mechanisms. For example in order to eat you have to stealth next to some buzards and "capture" one.

Animated Textures by Corbo

Starcraft 2 supports videos as textures. The Exporter Plugin now handles them great and you can see the result in this short video made by Corbo.

Voting Library by ArcadeRenegade

You probably want to use a voting system in your map to choose the difficulty, to kick someone ... ArcadeRenegade made a nice library that allows you to do just that in a few lines of code. This is pretty handy and supports synchronisation!