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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
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