This is quite incredible.

Perhaps in the future there will be room for a slightly longer pamphlet to explain what makes the game so intricate or reveals the subtle mastery that the pro's exhibit...

lovedoctor

Germany115 Posts

February 28 2012 12:20 GMT

#23

On February 28 2012 20:21 Rampager wrote:

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Hahah, I struggled with this classification for awhile but I do believe you are correct. I'll fix this for next time

Imo the best description might be:
Protoss: Humanoid Alien Race
Zerg: Insectoid Alien Race

Your description fits better for the purpose though I guess...

EDIT: Great work btw!

Full.tilt

United Kingdom1709 Posts

February 28 2012 12:24 GMT

#24

Looks great, could change the formatting a little so you can fold into a small A6 size booklet which may look better and use less room on tables to leave more room for beers

eg

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marcesr

Germany1383 Posts

February 28 2012 12:27 GMT

#25

This looks really great!

In my experience the comparison to chess and poker and explaining the speed at which pros play Starcraft is also very good to arouse interest.

RyF

Austria508 Posts

February 28 2012 12:28 GMT

#26

Wow this is pretty damn nice. We had our first Barcraft last Saturday (Barcraft Linz) and we have been facing the same issues with lots of random people even though we had like 100 nerds at the venue. definetely useful but i guess we would have to translate it to german.

keep it up - spread the word!

shifty

United States280 Posts

February 28 2012 12:40 GMT

#27

Awesome!

Fabozi

Slovakia336 Posts

February 28 2012 12:41 GMT

#28

very nice work. Can be pretty helpful

Rampager

Australia1007 Posts

February 28 2012 12:53 GMT

#29

On February 28 2012 20:54 Rannasha wrote:
One minor comment: On page 3, the micro description, the focus on the sentry/forcefield is very heavy with 3 out of 4 panels dedicated to it. You could remove the last 2 (medivac lifting units to the other side of the FF) and replace it by other micro examples such as pulling back weakened units or splitting units against splash damage.

Hey there, good points. I wanted to include something about pulling back weakened units but I ran out of space

I'm hoping that "splitting units against splash damage" can be inferred from the opposite of the bottom right frame where the colossus takes shots at a clumped army.

The medivac-marauder micro is supposed to be one of those "look how situations in the game can turn around" moments.

I definitely want to expand on each section in a future attempt though, and will keep your ideas in mind if someone doesn't beat me to it! :D

GameNYC

United States8 Posts

February 28 2012 12:59 GMT

#30

On February 28 2012 20:08 Rampager wrote:
What is this?
It's a (hopefully) simple, A4 double sided "Introduction to Starcraft 2" handout, meant to be given away at the start of a BarCraft.

Why?
We (Sydney Barcraft organisers) watched over 350+ people come to our previous two BarCraft events. A good portion of those people were continuously leaning in, pointing at the screen and going "What's happening? Why is everyone going nuts?" Friends dragged along, reluctant girlfriends, random passerbys, maybe we could help them understand.

The Handout

To see what it's about
Page 1: http://i.imgur.com/wmJRR.jpg
Pages 2 & 3: http://i.imgur.com/JNpKM.jpg
Page 4: http://i.imgur.com/JrucJ.jpg

A printable copy
All pages: http://www.ausproleague.com/skilani/IntroSC.pdf

Print on an A4 page, and fold in half.

Only four pages?
It was a conscious effort to try and keep it as succinct as possible. One double sided A4 page seemed like the way to go. There's still a lot missing of course, it's really, really hard to condense such a huge game like Starcraft 2 into minimal words and images. We tried our best, and we see there is problems but our deadline was tonight (for printing purposes) and this is what we wrangled up

I'd absolutely love to see someone pick this up and run with it. I'm just a simple uni student armed with Photoshop and zero creative talent, I can't imagine what some of the talented guys here could do

How about a video?
We have this on the way as well, but it's significantly more time consuming. Slowly but surely...

Enjoy your BarCrafts! Cheers!

Looks great, do we need permission to use this as part of promotional hand outs? A great way to draw in gamers who are unfamiliar with RTS or SC2.

Klive5ive

United Kingdom6056 Posts

February 28 2012 13:01 GMT

#31

You could even make this into placemats/coasters.

THM

Bulgaria1131 Posts

February 28 2012 13:07 GMT

#32

Good work. I think these can really be helpful in providing some basics to potential new fans.

Rampager

Australia1007 Posts

February 28 2012 13:13 GMT

#33

On February 28 2012 21:59 GameNYC wrote:
Looks great, do we need permission to use this as part of promotional hand outs? A great way to draw in gamers who are unfamiliar with RTS or SC2.

Oh I should make this more explicit, absolutely we want other people to use it, or create something better and let us use it

Basically just laying foundation for someone to come and expand on the idea.

solidbebe

Netherlands4921 Posts

February 28 2012 13:16 GMT

#34

These look really good, perfect for a person that doesn't know a thing about SC2

Suc

Australia1569 Posts

February 28 2012 13:20 GMT

#35

I really love this, but I can't help but feel that this won't be feasible for most barcrafts given how much colour and detail will have to be printed on every single pamphlet and not everyone will be able to get to get access to a good supplier to get it at a decent price. Apart from that though, great job!

Roachu

Sweden692 Posts

February 28 2012 13:29 GMT

#36

I usually only lurk here but this is something I've thought about a lot. How do you explain Starcraft to someone who doesn't play games that much and not making it sound like the most boring thing ever. I've heard my friend try to explain to his girlfriend and it's just embarrassing. I like the fact you stayed away from unit/race specific details as much as possible since it is not necessary at all to understand the game. What I would like to see is a little more information about the pro-scene in general, not to the point were it almost becomes commercials about the leagues, but rather so people get an idea about how huge this game is. Also a small side note, the pasted in-game pictures was a little hard to follow if you don't know exactly what's going (like the marauder vs zealot pics, if you don't know what force fields are, that zealots can only attack melee and that medivacs pic up and drop units instantly, you probably have to ask someone whats happening in the pictures).
Other than that, great initiative and I hope it serves its purpose. One of Starcrafts biggest strengths and weaknesses at the same time is the level of complexity and seemingly endless possibilities going in to the game.