StarCraft II Design - Quality of Life, Micro+Macro Streamlining, and Intentional Design

love these videos, great insight and a sharp eye for details I would have missed.

thanks a lot!

Back in the days, where the golden age of sc2 i was a top diamond player. Then i drop for 2 years and a half . But your videos are so lit, you're showing so many in-depth aspects of the game. You made me want to play this game again. Ty :p

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Fantastic analyzation, subscribed!

Brilliant, not only love the points an ideas you bring up. Just love your way of talking as well.

Not sure if you know this, but the fact that the harvester does not collide when tasked to reasource gathering in brood war is a huge deal. In early game combat it is used to 'drill' through the enemy army in order to get a good surface area when attacking. It is also useful for getting a scout in or out of an enemy base. It is pretty cool how the unintended side effects of certain changes pop up!

I pretty sure I should stop making workers at some point. Like having 100 drones for example.

I think a great addition to this series is if you add the part number either in the title or thumbnail. It's hard to figure out which is which and where does it all start without going to your channel. Viewers shouldn't have to search for your content!!!

People need to take off their rose colored lenses and realize game design wasn’t perfected in 1998.

I remember when people wanted to make the franchise faster and faster, as if a time crunch made the game better.
—Why not twice as fast as it is now? 3x as fast? 10x as fast? If you can answer that question, then you can identify the problems with the game.

Anything that is solved shouldn’t be in a game. Adding more actions to a solved problem shouldn’t be in the game. You could require every worker to be selected individually, but that doesn’t make the game any better.

Any good game designer will tell you that the #1 sign of poor game design is the interface getting in the way of the player.
— The old school way of testing your game is to reverse your controls and play the game left handed.

If the better player is losing because of the interface, then the game is about fighting the interface and not the gameplay itself.

If this is 10 parts and you recommend trying to watch them in order, why wouldn't you put the episode number in the title, I clicked through five videos trying to find part one, and now I'm giving up

I really love your old videos :p