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Well, nice too see people reading this. Well, I would like to hear your stories when you firstly discovered the world editor, I will give some questions that might spice up your interest in telling your story. How did you find the world editor, what did you think at first was its purpose? Did you recognize Warcraft first than the editor? Did someone told you about it? What was the feeling discovering the magic of triggers? Did making a project instantly came into your mind? What was your inspiration?
Well, I am going to tell my story too for a fair price.
My Story
Well, I am going to tell my story too for a fair price.
My Story
I was in the first year of high school and I was 13 (First year high school maybe different in some places). I was a transferee and know just a little people at the university, at that time, I did not have too much confidence as of now. As far as I can remember, the root that let me to this map making world is a simple conversation. I met this two guys, who became one of my friends, it was the time we need to have a pictorial for our IDs, they were a bit noisy and i was sitting next to them, I never knew much about them yet at that time.
As time goes by, I recognized more and more of my classmates, soon I heard them talking about something like a game, they were talking like a competition will happen between both of them. I barged in their conversation, at that time DotA was not that popular, so I listened to them, the game sounds so interesting, they mentioned about wind walk, then i asked what is wind walk. They did not explain it to me and just said to play with them after school.
So I decided to play with them after school, I played a DotA version where the scrolls still has scroll icons. Well I had Crystal maiden at first. I learned the basics of that game. When I got in the second year, I had more competitions, my new classmates has been used with the all random mode, I was always picking the maiden at that time, I did get to play much, still I had not much skill, until I had my own computer. My dad Installed me the warcraft, so now I had warcraft, and it already has some custom maps. But when I first discovered world editor, it was way back before I had my computer, I just had thrown units in the ground, never knew even the object editor. I had been then studying world editor at that time, while becoming a pro in DotA. I mastered DotA and all I needed was some updating my strategies, now I don't play it much anymore since I have less things to discover about it.
I then decided to go deeper into the editor, at that moment I have no internet connection yet, so I have to be in a computer shop. Then I typed in the yahoo search "World Editor" guess what, the world edit tutorials got first in the list. I was not familiar with navigation at that time, I clicked random links that interests me. The first topic I saw was the custom loading screen tutorial. When I got back after a long vacation from my grandmothers house, at that time my computer was busted and needed to be reformatted, until I got my internet. That is where I got to understand world editor more. At first I used the DotA template for a game composed of heroes, with my classmates name on it. I am perfectionist, so the tooltips was a bit difficult, and i had to write it in our dialect "Illongo" which I find out more complicated to use for games than English. I had done it properly by following the instructions. I got tired of making the map I abandoned it, I have been hooked in the forums, since it's a good way to communicate and interact (Life in the virtual world).
I learned more by asking, and answering others questions, it was difficult to me at that time since I barely know about forums. I did not know double posting, I did not know flaming. A little while when I got long enough time in the forums, i made my other map "Twilight Avatars" it was not that successful though since I was not that good in triggers then. I made it up to three versions for the map and guess what it only took minor changes. Diamondhero05 was my team up at that time.
Then I decided to abandon that game, at first I was thinking of multi projects, the concepts were too good for me to abandon, I posted the two other projects "Fluffy Friends Typing Game" and "Devastate" they were just small projects in my vision. Thats where i was wrong, at Fluffy, I encountered a lot of problems with the triggers. And at Devastate, I lack of resources, though Devastate was well planned. Until right now I find myself typing, and currently developing a game that is not mentioned though. But still I'm hoping this game would be a more successful game. I hope you enjoyed reading my long story.
As time goes by, I recognized more and more of my classmates, soon I heard them talking about something like a game, they were talking like a competition will happen between both of them. I barged in their conversation, at that time DotA was not that popular, so I listened to them, the game sounds so interesting, they mentioned about wind walk, then i asked what is wind walk. They did not explain it to me and just said to play with them after school.
So I decided to play with them after school, I played a DotA version where the scrolls still has scroll icons. Well I had Crystal maiden at first. I learned the basics of that game. When I got in the second year, I had more competitions, my new classmates has been used with the all random mode, I was always picking the maiden at that time, I did get to play much, still I had not much skill, until I had my own computer. My dad Installed me the warcraft, so now I had warcraft, and it already has some custom maps. But when I first discovered world editor, it was way back before I had my computer, I just had thrown units in the ground, never knew even the object editor. I had been then studying world editor at that time, while becoming a pro in DotA. I mastered DotA and all I needed was some updating my strategies, now I don't play it much anymore since I have less things to discover about it.
I then decided to go deeper into the editor, at that moment I have no internet connection yet, so I have to be in a computer shop. Then I typed in the yahoo search "World Editor" guess what, the world edit tutorials got first in the list. I was not familiar with navigation at that time, I clicked random links that interests me. The first topic I saw was the custom loading screen tutorial. When I got back after a long vacation from my grandmothers house, at that time my computer was busted and needed to be reformatted, until I got my internet. That is where I got to understand world editor more. At first I used the DotA template for a game composed of heroes, with my classmates name on it. I am perfectionist, so the tooltips was a bit difficult, and i had to write it in our dialect "Illongo" which I find out more complicated to use for games than English. I had done it properly by following the instructions. I got tired of making the map I abandoned it, I have been hooked in the forums, since it's a good way to communicate and interact (Life in the virtual world).
I learned more by asking, and answering others questions, it was difficult to me at that time since I barely know about forums. I did not know double posting, I did not know flaming. A little while when I got long enough time in the forums, i made my other map "Twilight Avatars" it was not that successful though since I was not that good in triggers then. I made it up to three versions for the map and guess what it only took minor changes. Diamondhero05 was my team up at that time.
Then I decided to abandon that game, at first I was thinking of multi projects, the concepts were too good for me to abandon, I posted the two other projects "Fluffy Friends Typing Game" and "Devastate" they were just small projects in my vision. Thats where i was wrong, at Fluffy, I encountered a lot of problems with the triggers. And at Devastate, I lack of resources, though Devastate was well planned. Until right now I find myself typing, and currently developing a game that is not mentioned though. But still I'm hoping this game would be a more successful game. I hope you enjoyed reading my long story.
