• Log InLog In
  • Register
Liquid`
Team Liquid Liquipedia
EDT 00:54
CEST 06:54
KST 13:54
  • Home
  • Forum
  • Calendar
  • Streams
  • Liquipedia
  • Features
  • Store
  • EPT
  • TL+
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Smash
  • Heroes
  • Counter-Strike
  • Overwatch
  • Liquibet
  • Fantasy StarCraft
  • TLPD
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Blogs
Forum Sidebar
Events/Features
News
Featured News
Code S Season 1 - RO8 Preview3[ASL21] Ro8 Preview Pt2: Progenitors8Code S Season 1 - RO12 Group A: Rogue, Percival, Solar, Zoun13[ASL21] Ro8 Preview Pt1: Inheritors16[ASL21] Ro16 Preview Pt2: All Star10
Community News
Weekly Cups (April 27-May 4): Clem takes triple0RSL Revival: Season 5 - Qualifiers and Main Event12Code S Season 1 (2026) - RO12 Results12026 GSL Season 1 Qualifiers25Maestros of the Game 2 announced9
StarCraft 2
General
Code S Season 1 - RO8 Preview Behind the Blue - Team Liquid History Book Weekly Cups (April 27-May 4): Clem takes triple Blizzard Classic Cup @ BlizzCon 2026 - $100k prize pool Code S Season 1 (2026) - RO12 Results
Tourneys
RSL Revival: Season 5 - Qualifiers and Main Event GSL Code S Season 1 (2026) Sparkling Tuna Cup - Weekly Open Tournament StarCraft Evolution League (SC Evo Biweekly) 2026 GSL Season 2 Qualifiers
Strategy
Custom Maps
[D]RTS in all its shapes and glory <3 [A] Nemrods 1/4 players [M] (2) Frigid Storage
External Content
Mutation # 524 Death and Taxes The PondCast: SC2 News & Results Mutation # 523 Firewall Mutation # 522 Flip My Base
Brood War
General
BGH Auto Balance -> http://bghmmr.eu/ (Spoiler) Asl ro8 D winner interview BW General Discussion Do we have a pimpest plays list? AI Question
Tourneys
[ASL21] Ro8 Day 4 [BSL22] RO16 Group Stage - 02 - 10 May [ASL21] Ro8 Day 3 [Megathread] Daily Proleagues
Strategy
Simple Questions, Simple Answers Fighting Spirit mining rates What's the deal with APM & what's its true value Any training maps people recommend?
Other Games
General Games
Nintendo Switch Thread Dawn of War IV Stormgate/Frost Giant Megathread OutLive 25 (RTS Game) Daigo vs Menard Best of 10
Dota 2
The Story of Wings Gaming
League of Legends
G2 just beat GenG in First stand
Heroes of the Storm
Simple Questions, Simple Answers Heroes of the Storm 2.0
Hearthstone
Deck construction bug Heroes of StarCraft mini-set
TL Mafia
Vanilla Mini Mafia Mafia Game Mode Feedback/Ideas TL Mafia Community Thread Five o'clock TL Mafia
Community
General
US Politics Mega-thread Russo-Ukrainian War Thread European Politico-economics QA Mega-thread 3D technology/software discussion Canadian Politics Mega-thread
Fan Clubs
The IdrA Fan Club
Media & Entertainment
Anime Discussion Thread [Manga] One Piece [Req][Books] Good Fantasy/SciFi books
Sports
2024 - 2026 Football Thread Formula 1 Discussion McBoner: A hockey love story
World Cup 2022
Tech Support
streaming software Strange computer issues (software) [G] How to Block Livestream Ads
TL Community
The Automated Ban List
Blogs
Movie Stars In Video Games: …
TrAiDoS
ramps on octagon
StaticNine
Broowar part 2
qwaykee
Funny Nicknames
LUCKY_NOOB
Customize Sidebar...

Website Feedback

Closed Threads



Active: 1626 users

Minimap Movie: The Purple Mile - Page 4

Forum Index > SC2 General
Post a Reply
Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Next All
Flaunt
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
New Zealand784 Posts
October 27 2010 17:03 GMT
#61
It brought a tear to my eye
What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!
Typho0n
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Canada276 Posts
October 27 2010 17:06 GMT
#62
that was very entertaining! good idea
ThE.SparkZ
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States381 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-10-27 17:27:01
October 27 2010 17:26 GMT
#63
Well done sir, i'd watch again. The music fit it so well and it was really pretty. Do you know what song that is?
A battle between gods is just so damn beautiful
AirbladeOrange
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States2574 Posts
October 27 2010 17:34 GMT
#64
I like it.
tw!tch
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States563 Posts
October 27 2010 17:35 GMT
#65
that was so totally and completely awesome
TymerA
Profile Joined July 2010
Netherlands759 Posts
October 27 2010 17:52 GMT
#66
it does have quite a charm yes
nice.
Zerokaiser
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Canada885 Posts
October 27 2010 18:09 GMT
#67
On October 28 2010 02:26 ThE.SparkZ wrote:
Well done sir, i'd watch again. The music fit it so well and it was really pretty. Do you know what song that is?



To be honest, I was intending to put Tubular Bells from Mike Oldfield on there (AKA, the Excorsist theme) but for some reason the audio file wasn't working.

So...I searched "mp3" on my newely reformatted computer and picked the most soothing sample music I could find, which ended up being a song called "Maid with Flaxen Hair".
Lanaia is love.
Ygz
Profile Joined June 2010
England370 Posts
October 27 2010 18:15 GMT
#68
The music and video complimented each other perfectly. Very nice!
Everything Newton said.
lowlypawn
Profile Joined January 2009
United States241 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-10-27 19:44:26
October 27 2010 19:42 GMT
#69
Ha, I'm glad I'm not the only person to be memorized by the mini map. I will sometimes re-watch a replay at the fastest speed only watching the mini map to see what kind of clues can be gained and used to my advantage for future games.

Watching only the mini map reminds me of a scientists try to figure out what it going on with very limited information, similar to quantum physics, astronomy, biology ETC. I imagine what if aliens came across an archive of millions of SC2 games but the only thing they could see was the mini map. What could they learn about SC2? Could they identify the different units? I'm sure they could easily tell there are 3 races and all the races mine/eat/use the minerals, except that wouldn't know they are called minerals. I think the gas extractors would seem more mysterious but I think they could figure them out as well.

Anyway I could go on and on about the mini map and what could be learned but even if the aliens had millions or mini-map replays I doubt the aliens could ever draw what the units look like. They could probably figure out everything else, attack strength, movement speed, cost, build time ETC but I doubt they could ever draw a Zergling. It makes me wonder if that is the same hurtle we are facing in trying to picture a quark or some other subatomic particle...
Chairman Ray
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States11903 Posts
October 27 2010 19:47 GMT
#70
hey that's really cute!
Chronopolis
Profile Joined April 2009
Canada1484 Posts
October 27 2010 21:44 GMT
#71
It's suprising how much you get get out of watching the minimap rep.
BluFenix
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States32 Posts
October 27 2010 21:52 GMT
#72
This movie is really awesome, some things that stood out for me as I watched;

1. Worker saturation looks really pretty, with all those dots moving very fast between mins and base.

2. The power of the swarm in master macro Idra's hand is very intriguing to watch, seeing almost no units then a dot KERPLOSION right before he heads out.

Very nicely done, loved the music too!
"The Phoenix always rises."
Talin
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Montenegro10532 Posts
October 27 2010 21:55 GMT
#73
Awesome, really fun to watch. xD
sylph_uscm
Profile Joined September 2010
United Kingdom7 Posts
October 27 2010 21:55 GMT
#74
It looks exactly like supreme commander!
qualiA
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada39 Posts
October 27 2010 22:01 GMT
#75
this is brilliant!
MangoTango
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States3670 Posts
October 27 2010 22:01 GMT
#76
This reminds me a game I played once called Liquid Wars.
"One fish, two fish, red fish, BLUE TANK!" - Artosis
MisterD
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Germany1338 Posts
October 27 2010 22:02 GMT
#77
i always do this while forwarding replays.. replays on high speed give so cute minimap movies.. always reminds me a little of game of life, although thats something completely different. xD we had to make some ai in our first year at university which tries to make smilies survive in a grid where randomly food is dropped and there are two opposing factions. That always looked very similar where a bunch of red ones would be surrounded by a bigger bunch of blue ones (just spread out over a larger part of the map than in sc) and slowly eat them up. So i always get a little nostalgic when watching replay minimaps on highspeed.. *dreams*
Gold isn't everything in life... you need wood, too!
JWD
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States12607 Posts
October 27 2010 22:08 GMT
#78
Pretty cool, especially if you've seen the game. Thanks for sharing. I'd love to watch more!
✌
Skygrinder
Profile Joined August 2009
Greece241 Posts
October 27 2010 22:11 GMT
#79
Amazing man well done!
EU: Psychodrama.295 ~ Diamond Random
blade55555
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States17423 Posts
October 27 2010 22:15 GMT
#80
was pretty cool to watch lol. And seeing the game I knew what units
When I think of something else, something will go here
Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Next All
Please log in or register to reply.
Live Events Refresh
Next event in 4h 36m
[ Submit Event ]
Live Streams
Refresh
StarCraft 2
RuFF_SC2 116
Nina 106
StarCraft: Brood War
GuemChi 5499
Noble 19
SilentControl 17
Icarus 9
Dota 2
monkeys_forever548
NeuroSwarm106
Counter-Strike
tarik_tv4766
m0e_tv485
Super Smash Bros
Mew2King121
Other Games
summit1g7946
C9.Mang0629
WinterStarcraft393
Sick208
ViBE107
ROOTCatZ6
Organizations
Other Games
gamesdonequick1078
BasetradeTV445
Dota 2
PGL Dota 2 - Main Stream28
StarCraft 2
Blizzard YouTube
StarCraft: Brood War
BSLTrovo
[ Show 14 non-featured ]
StarCraft 2
• practicex 44
• AfreecaTV YouTube
• intothetv
• Kozan
• IndyKCrew
• LaughNgamezSOOP
• Migwel
• sooper7s
StarCraft: Brood War
• BSLYoutube
• STPLYoutube
• ZZZeroYoutube
League of Legends
• Lourlo1030
• Rush868
• Stunt406
Upcoming Events
GSL
4h 36m
SHIN vs Zoun
ByuN vs herO
OSC
6h 6m
OSC
8h 6m
Replay Cast
19h 6m
Escore
1d 5h
The PondCast
1d 5h
WardiTV Invitational
1d 6h
Zoun vs Ryung
Lambo vs ShoWTimE
Big Brain Bouts
1d 11h
Fjant vs Bly
Serral vs Shameless
OSC
1d 17h
Replay Cast
1d 19h
[ Show More ]
CranKy Ducklings
2 days
RSL Revival
2 days
SHIN vs Bunny
ByuN vs Shameless
WardiTV Invitational
2 days
Krystianer vs TriGGeR
Cure vs Rogue
uThermal 2v2 Circuit
2 days
BSL
2 days
Artosis vs TerrOr
spx vs StRyKeR
Replay Cast
2 days
Sparkling Tuna Cup
3 days
RSL Revival
3 days
Cure vs Zoun
Clem vs Lambo
WardiTV Invitational
3 days
BSL
3 days
Dewalt vs DragOn
Aether vs Jimin
GSL
4 days
Afreeca Starleague
4 days
Soma vs Leta
Monday Night Weeklies
4 days
CranKy Ducklings
5 days
Afreeca Starleague
5 days
Light vs Flash
Replay Cast
6 days
Replay Cast
6 days
Liquipedia Results

Completed

Proleague 2026-05-05
WardiTV TLMC #16
Nations Cup 2026

Ongoing

BSL Season 22
ASL Season 21
CSL 2026 SPRING (S20)
IPSL Spring 2026
KCM Race Survival 2026 Season 2
Acropolis #4
SCTL 2026 Spring
RSL Revival: Season 5
2026 GSL S1
BLAST Rivals Spring 2026
IEM Rio 2026
PGL Bucharest 2026
Stake Ranked Episode 1
BLAST Open Spring 2026
ESL Pro League S23 Finals
ESL Pro League S23 Stage 1&2
PGL Cluj-Napoca 2026

Upcoming

Escore Tournament S2: W6
KK 2v2 League Season 1
BSL 22 Non-Korean Championship
YSL S3
Escore Tournament S2: W7
Escore Tournament S2: W8
CSLAN 4
Kung Fu Cup 2026 Grand Finals
HSC XXIX
uThermal 2v2 2026 Main Event
Maestros of the Game 2
2026 GSL S2
Stake Ranked Episode 3
XSE Pro League 2026
IEM Cologne Major 2026
Stake Ranked Episode 2
CS Asia Championships 2026
IEM Atlanta 2026
Asian Champions League 2026
PGL Astana 2026
TLPD

1. ByuN
2. TY
3. Dark
4. Solar
5. Stats
6. Nerchio
7. sOs
8. soO
9. INnoVation
10. Elazer
1. Rain
2. Flash
3. EffOrt
4. Last
5. Bisu
6. Soulkey
7. Mini
8. Sharp
Sidebar Settings...

Advertising | Privacy Policy | Terms Of Use | Contact Us

Original banner artwork: Jim Warren
The contents of this webpage are copyright © 2026 TLnet. All Rights Reserved.