Web comics on Starcraft 2
Here are some web comic strips on Starcraft 2:
Archive for May, 2007
Starcraft 2 in development!
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Starcraft was one of my most favorite strategy games. I devoted a significant chunk of my life to it and I wouldn’t mind allocating more. In fact, I still haven’t completed the Broodwar expansion. The third from last compaign completely owned me. I was only able to finish it once and that was by sucking in my pride and repeatedly using the cheat code to magically have more resources points. And even then, I was only able to win due to attrition, ie the enemy ran out of resources themselves and couldn’t retailate anymore. I have never been able to duplicate this feat even with cheating. The next mission kicked my butt real quick.
One of my most memorable feats in Starcraft was the mission where Kerigan got captured by the Zerg at the end. The setting was a fully developed Zerg colony on a raised level adjacent to your starting base and the mission objective did not allow any of the Zerg structures to be destroyed. After you defeated the Protoss, the Zerg would all pour down into your base.
I loved this mission just for that final Zerg rush. I always leave a little bit of Protoss around just so I could have the time to use every last bit of resource to build up a massive defense for those final seconds. I was once almost able to totally destroy the Zerg rush before time ran out with only minor losses in my forward Pillboxes and Missle Turrets. Man, that was sweet.
Wine label v3
I had to ditch my colorful SBE design for my Crushpad wine label. I used Fireworks to create it, which in turn used the Web Safe Colors palate. Well, Web Safe Colors aren’t what real printers use apparently. Hayley needed to replace my colors with the equivalents those from the CYM palate, but it looked completely different. The colors looked flat and dull, or the graduated color scheme didn’t come close to what I envisioned.
I waited a while until Adobe released their new CS3 software suite and bought a copy of Illustrator CS3 to see for myself what she’s been doing. It was as she told me. The colors she used were the closest I could come up with too. Even if I didn’t stay with that particular color scheme, I couldn’t get any other color combination that appealed to me. Illustrator has a multitude of other color palates, but they all just sucked even more. In the end, I just said “screw it” and started over.
On a side note, I was reminded of why I hate Illustrator. It’s layout seem so chaotic that it makes my skin crawl. I thought about designing my new version with it, but I just don’t understand it.
I went back to using Fireworks, but decided to keep it simple and with a minimulist color scheme so it’d make the transition better.