Campaign Creations

This is a large single-player RPG-esque map in the bare sense that you have a hero who is on a quest.

The "hero" in this case is a Hunter-Killer class Zergling that was bio-engineered by Duran and abandoned to roam around. Named "Zydrail" (Zie - Drey - Ull), he eventually found his way to the Koprulu Sector (he hijacked a Battlecruiser, which slowly became infested over time). Now his ship has crash-landed on an unknown planet (to him, at least), and he must find transport off the world. Luckily enough, he finds a Dominion-sponsored Terran exploration base a few clicks west from where he crashed.

The base is lead by a "Max deFance," and the other Terran presence (a terrorist group known as the "Red Sun") is causing trouble (raids, etc.). They recently stole a megaload of valuable information (compacted into a single Data Disc, of course) and hid it somewhere in their stronghold to the East of the Dominion base.

After much explaining on both sides, Zydrail heads out to recover the stolen data and basically blow the H.Q. to hell. Of course, this is all in-game (and as such could be considered "spoilers"), but since no one from my organization has an account on this site... well, you know.  ^.^

This may or may not have an accompanying mod... for one reason.

Zydrail eventually finds several forms which he can take, and they all have different portraits! :mad:

So I may end up making a mod that does nothing but change the portraits, but then again I may not. I'm lazy sometimes.
Before I show off my few screenshots, does anyone know if there's an Infested Crashed Battlecruiser model I could use? Thanks.


SCREENS WOOHOO.

The crashed Battlecruiser, with Zydrail sitting there idle waiting for some triggers to run.
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Zydrail converses with the Terran guards...
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...and then with the Terran leader...
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(quick shot of the Terran gathering area)
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(some ambiance and side conversations add depth to the map)
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...and FINALLY with the informant (white Vulture) in the outpost to the south.
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Here, Zydrail gets a com-link installed to his ear.
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Final conversation between Zydrail and the informant.
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And now, the objectives screen!
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Zydrail ransacks the Red Sun's outpost.
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And what does he find? Goliaths!
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Goliath form:
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Form Changing:
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C&C on the storyline or mechanics is welcome, along with suggestions, praise, etc.

Happy mapping!

Huh, no one responded. O.o

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Anyways... moar screens!

Science Vessel side conversation.
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Outpost aftermath text.
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Zydrail cleans up after destroying the Command Center.
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En route to the base, Zydrail encounters several more terrorists in an ambush.
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Just-made-at-the-last-second Quest Items area.
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Excerpts of the farewell between deFance, Vinny and Zydrail.
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Well, it looks pretty. but without much more details hard to make an impression.

What should I write?

May I suggest the following tutorial:

http://www.campaigncreations.org/starcraft/staredit/text.shtml

It's Zergy!

Thanks for the tutorial, it helped a lot.

I'll have to give you pie for that.

UPDATE!

Shots of Zydrail's Dropship, right after the end of the first quest.
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It leaves Dominion territory and continues on.
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It enters Zerg territory.
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(I apologize, I took the following screens with Apocalypse active because I needed to kill something via Function Five and I'm also sleepy due to the fact that it's 2:20 A.M. at my place)

Shots of the Zerg "swamp" area.
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GUESS WHERE YOUR NEXT QUEST AREA IS!

(sorry about the grainy images, but I think my computer is as sleepy as me)

This looks very interesting.  When do you reckon it's finished?

Well, the alpha should be done within the week. When it's finished, I will have to find some way to leak it, but I won't actually post the map. Only a select few will be able to play the alpha. ^.^

Cool!  Looks worth installing StarCraft on this new computer for.

Wow, great compliment! Lol.

I've been so caught up in other projects (which are thankfully completed now) that I really haven't had the time to work on the alpha, but today all I'm going to do is sit here and work on it.

I hope this still has some interest left in it.

For those of you looking to play the alpha, you will find your chance here.

I know, I suck.

You probably won't motivate people with 'I know, I suck'

That wasn't about the map at all, that was about the link.

I have to admit, this map is perking my interest, so I'm curious as to how it will play when completed.