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8 unusual facts about StarCraft


BarCraft

In May 2011, the user o Oskar posted a topic on reddit saying that on May 11, 2011, people could go to Chao in Seattle to watch that day's North American Star League games while drinking a few beers and enjoying the company of other StarCraft fans.

Bertrand Grospellier

Grospellier was one of the top ranked StarCraft players in the world, having placed second in the World Cyber Games in 2001 and continuing his career in South Korea in the years subsequent including a fourth place finish in an Ongamenet Starleague.

Dan Schreiber

Before playing poker full-time, he played StarCraft in South Korea on Team Hexatron as a professional gamer.

Five by five

In the Blizzard computer game StarCraft, the Terran dropship unit quotes "In the pipe, five by five" when confirming a move order.

Guillaume Patry

Guillaume Patry (born June 19, 1982) is a professional StarCraft player from Canada who plays under the alias Grrrr....

Lee Junho

The latter came from an incident when Junho wrote his name so quickly on a newly purchased StarCraft disc that it appeared wrongly as Ij Nuneo (잊누너).

Ma Jae-Yoon

Ma Jae-Yoon was a member of CJ Entus, a professional StarCraft: Brood War e-sports team sponsored by CJ CGV, an entertainment subsidiary of the CJ Corporation.

Somyung Sim

Somyung "Silver" Sim (born September 27, 1984), known by the pseudonym s.s.m~SiLvEr is one of the most successful player of the real-time strategy computer game StarCraft.


Bisu

Kim Taek-Yong or Bisu (born 1989), professional StarCraft player from South Korea

Chris Loranger

He also found modest success in notable tournaments including MLG Dallas 2011 and SteelSeries StarCraft II Challenge, finishing 10th and 8th respectively.

Compupress

In addition, Anubis has also published more than 80 books of the classic RPG Dragonlance and Forgotten Realms series licensed from Wizards of the Coast, a number of Warhammer novels licensed from Black Library, as well as a dozen Warcraft and Starcraft novels licensed from Blizzard Entertainment.

Dave Wolverton

He is responsible for the concept of "lurkers" in the well-known RTS (Real-time strategy) game Starcraft: Brood War.

Fog of war

Two of the most successful Blizzard franchises, Warcraft and StarCraft as well as Riot Game's League of Legends, also use a similar fog of war which only reveals terrain features and enemy units through a player's reconnaissance.

Heroes of the Storm

In June 2012, Dustin Browder, the director of StarCraft II, stated that Blizzard All-Stars did not have a release date, but that it would definitely be after the release of StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm.

Ji-hoon

Seo Ji-Hun (born 1985), South Korean professional StarCraft player

Metreon

The Metreon was also home to the Walk of Game, which is loosely based on the Walk of Fame — honorees include Shigeru Miyamoto, Nolan Bushnell, StarCraft, Sid Meier, John D. Carmack, Mario, Sonic the Hedgehog, and Link from The Legend of Zelda series.

NASL

North American Star League, a professional e-sports league for the real-time strategy game StarCraft II

Ron Millar

He previously worked at companies such as Jaleco Entertainment, where he was lead designer on Goblin Commander; Redline Games, where he worked on the cancelled project Third World; and Blizzard Entertainment, where he worked on titles such as StarCraft and Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness.

Samwise Didier

He is responsible for creating much of the artwork for computer games in the Warcraft, StarCraft, and the Diablo series.

Tracy W. Bush

He is known for composing music for the popular games Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, World of Warcraft, StarCraft (all of which he also performed voice acting for), and StarCraft: Brood War, and for sound design on Diablo II and Diablo II: Lord of Destruction.

Twitch gameplay

Soon after turn-based strategy games were introduced, real-time strategy games were introduced to the video gaming market, beginning with Herzog Zwei and then Dune II and eventually leading to popular titles such as Command & Conquer, Warcraft, and StarCraft.


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