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[quote]Jamie recommends a blog post from software engineer Louis Brandy explaining how using genetic algorithms to evaluate build orders in StarCraft 2 has led to some surprisingly powerful results. Quoting: "One of the reasons build-order optimization is so important is that you can discover openings that 'hard-counter' other openings
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Here's an interview with David Kim, game balance designer for Starcraft 2 at Blizzcon. [quote] 1. Community Feedback Pros: All players may participate. Cons: Issues can become exaggerated (opinion swings). 2. Progamer Feedback Because of the skill level of Korean pros, we try to pay a lot of attention to this. We observe focusing our attention on
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[quote]"Facebook has added a new tool that brings together conversations and photos between friends onto a single page, but — as usual — has crossed the creepy line. Not only does clicking the See Friendship tool let users view photos, comments and events shared between themselves and their friend, it also offers a search tool to do
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Portal 2 FTW!!
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[quote]"Zynga, the creators of the popular hit Facebook game FarmVille, should be happy today as the company's worth has passed that of EA (Electronic Arts)."[/quote] I lawled...EA has been going down hill for a while now. [ Clickeh ]
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[quote]At this year's Blizzcon, we got to try out a section of Diablo 3 that was pulled directly from the single-player storyline and playable with all classes. A large number of skills and abilities were playable, and the skill rune system has been implemented, a feature that was lacking for last year's demo build. We also got to spend some
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[quote]The StarCraft 2 team spent most of Blizzcon talking about the map editor and custom games. We spoke with Alan Dabiri, a Lead Software Engineer for Wings of Liberty who worked on the user interface and helped out on the game's integration with Battle.net. He provided some more details about plans for making the map editor more approachable
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Hahahaha answered in TF2!
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Yes!! Blizzard released the replays of the tournament and the 1v1 of Boxer and Cool. [ BlizzCon!!! ]