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- A way to share with anyone who is interested in updates without spamming everyone else.
- A sense of accomplishment by bragging about my progress.
- A sense of direction by laying out my goals in text instead of ever shifting goalposts in my head.
- A public decleration of my intent. (I could go climb a mountain and scream it into the void but I lose my voice too easily)
Basically the purpose of this blog is to give me purpose.
For people who don't know SALT is a build order and training tool for SC2. It started off as a map which allowed players to save and load the game state at any time they desired. (This is long before Blizzard came out with their load from replay functionality). For an overview of how it could be used husky did a good job of summing it up here (WARNING: very old version. Much has changed since then)
Since then a lot of functionality was changed and added. Specifically the addition of build orders as can be shown here: (WARNING: old version. currently working on a major reboot. I don't even know if the battlenet published version still even works)
As you can see there are a lot of issues with that. The build is obtrusive and annoying, creating a build using external sources doesn't work properly and is confusing, the menu system sucks, there is no tutorial to teach people how to use it, there is no "record build" feature, and one of the bigger problems is... that video is boring as $#@& to watch. the quality sucks balls and listening to my monotonous droning is enough to put even me to sleep.
Now then. Enough gazing into the past, time to look towards the future. I am making the next version bigger, better and more professional. And it will be well known and utilized throughout the Starcraft community. The first thing people do when they encounter a newbie will be to recomend SALT as an invaluable tool to help them along their path. And I will do this even if it kills me.
Coming soon, to a blog near you:
- where I am at now. That last video was 7 months old. A lot has happened since then.
- My long term goals and ideas for what I want the finished product to look like
- Shorter term objectives which I will talk about and cross off the list
- Random pictures of my cats / talking about rock climbing / Whatever is going on in my life. (promise this will not take centre stage)
