Starcraft 2 update

There are some interesting news and updates of Starcraft II. Some of these mentioned here are not the latest but are still interesting enough.

Here at Press 2 Play TV is an interview with Dustin Browder, lead designer for Starcraft 2 and Chris Sigtay, lead producer. Topics covered include engine development (from ground up) including graphics engine, reasons for splitting up the game in 3 titles. There are some hints about single player missions:

• holding off hordes of infested colonists
• walls of fire burning across the map
• surviving supernova

Soundtrack and music is also discussed, beta testing, release date…
At the moments audio quality is not too good but you get a lot of info for 17:25 of an interview.

Battle.net Q&A Batch 52
Theme for this batch was Map Maker. Some of the key points:

• support for custom function definitions, including actions and conditions in Trigger Editor
• entirely new scripting language called Galaxy. This language is very similar to C.
• map makers will have the ability to define any number of custom attributes that modify a hero based on its level

Dev talk
Inc Gamers interview with Rob Pardo, Dustin Browder and Chris Sigtay reveals some interesting features :

• Development of new Battle.net
• possibility to create mods - "It's EXTREMELY complicated, but it's possible".
• No support for LAN
• noob friendly game for casual gamers (view of tech tree, detailed replay, challenges)

Technology tree
Yesterday a couple of sites has shown technology tree for SC2. One of sites is Kotaku.
I guess comments are not really required, so here they are.

Zerg

Protoss


Terran