Minimap Movie: The Purple Mile - Page 6

On October 28 2010 14:17 Teogamer wrote:
Man if someone made a mod so that you could somehow distinguish what buildings were what and maybe even units, watching the minimap all throughout a game would be awesome.

On October 28 2010 04:42 lowlypawn wrote:
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...

On October 28 2010 19:00 osten wrote:


Haha so sexy, you sound like you're on weed pure truth. I love minimap games, there should be an animation with every replay on the replay sites! Someone get coding!