STARCRAFT

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STARCRAFT

• Publisher Blizzard Entertainment
• Developer Blizzard Entertainment
• 1998
• N64, PC, MAC

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Best RTS of all Time?

• 3 different but balanced sides
• in-depth storyline
• Innovative traditional RTS
• Epic space opera Sci-fi adventure

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Impact

• estimated in 2005 that 9 million copies of
  StarCraft had been sold
• achieved an international cult-like status
• still played worldwide in multiplayer form, on
  battle.net.
• 8 years after release it still sells

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Play Modes

• Single Player Campaign
• Multiplayer VS (battle.net)
• Campaign Editor

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Primary Player Actions

• Build
• Structures
• Units
• Gather Resources
• Minerals
• Vespene Gas
• Patrol
• Attack
• Hold Position
• Repair

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HUD

• Minimap
• Resources
• Status Display
• Command Buttons
• Main Screen
• Portait

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Level Types

• 30 Levels consisting of
• Build
• Survive
• Maze Hunt
• Infiltrate
• Rescue
• Seek and Destroy
• Escort

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Story

• 3 Acts
• 3 races
• The Terrans (future Humans) need resources so
  they are colonizing other planets.
• The Zerg are bug like alien invaders.
• The Protoss are intelligent beings looking to
  preserve themselves from invasion.

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Abstract

• In the distant future a small group of human
  exiles have been doomed to fight for survival on
  the edge of the galaxy. Through military
  strength, espionage and deceit, a unified Terran
  government has maintained an uneasy peace. As
  resources run short, however, these Confederate
  nations find themselves looking towards the rich
  worlds of their alien neighbors, the enigmatic
  Protoss. To further complicate matters, it seems
  that a previously unknown and deadly species
  known only as the Zerg has entered Protoss space
  and is destroying everything in its path.

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Terran

• Humanitys cousins in a distant time and place
• First 10 missions
• Rely on diverse units and upgrades
• Manufacturing is primary structure building
  method
• Manufactured and trained units

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Zerg

• Bug like alien forces
• Rely on mass quantities of cheap units
• No super powerful weapons
• Biological self healing units
• Mutation is primary structure building method

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Protoss

• Intelligent humanoid alien beings
• Most technologically advanced of the 3 races
• Highest costing structures and units
• Not easily rebuilt
• All Protoss have punishment absorption shields

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Future RTS Features?

• Continuous World
• Living world
• More complex unit commands
• Embedded interface