Q&A with Frost Giant - Stormgate's Map Editor: SnowPlay 

the focus on a great editor is a game changer

Make sure to watch the PCGamer show on Sunday, June 9th for the reveal of Stormgate's 3rd faction. Some parts of this video inside the editor are redacted for that reason ;) www.pcgamingshow.com/

Now THIS is what I've been waiting for!

Wow-wow! Jay is the future leader of SG custom campaign community, you heard this here first!

Awesome - excited to get my hands on this

Maybe many doesn't like graphical or storyline design, but I think that providing powerful WorldEdit-like editor can cover those issues with ease.

The one feature I am more excited than the game itself, hah

Thank you for showing us this Jay. looking forward to see what the third faction will be. I don´t know how I feel about the editor yet. Perhaps when I get my hands on it, it will make more sense to me.

So cool lol. Thanks for sharing this kind of stuff with us!

Always nice when a dev team reps those of us who are aesthetic terrain challenged.

So Scourge of Lordaeron in Stormgate for Maporino 2025 then ? Imagining new genres spawning from custom maps for this game seems a bit optimistic at the moment. The editor will be succesful only if the game is, so we'll see

Making new abilities via visual scripting nodes is so cool

Being able to create skills that can automatically fire is going to be a huge step for creating easy / low level AI. As well as making it much easier to create damage (formulae) right in the skills instead of Duy shenanigans or 99% of skills being just summoning units like in pre-EUD SCRM.

Good stuff, Dan! :)

Stormgate, Space Gears, Zero Space, Tempest Rising, Battle Aces, Doom..... 2025 is gonna be great

I really hope they give us access to an actual programming language. Although I learned how to program in WC3 world editor, I was happy to move out of GUI triggers as quickly as possible haha

Not much new from a StarCraft 2 creator's perspective. 14:40 It looks like virtually the same workflow as in StarCraft 2, so despite their comments it doesn't seem like it'll be an improvement. 17:47 From what they showed, I get the impression you can only have 1 tileset per map. I suspect they mis-understood Jay and he's too polite to correct or press on it, but it sounds like he was asking if you could have multiple sets of tilesets in a single area. In StarCraft 2 you can at least have "chunks" of tilesets in the terrain editor. It wasn't as flexible as it could be, but it looks more flexible than this, so this looks like a tentative downgrade. 34:16 Glad to hear they'll support some form of collaboration, but again they're describing how the StarCraft 2's format already virtually works. If the triggers could be exported and worked on externally and safely, it could be a reasonable improvement over StarCraft 2, but as it stands they haven't specified. 43:40 It sounds like they're describing dependencies. It would be pretty neat if they expanded on libraries and made them more easily shared between maps. Those are pretty poorly implemented in StarCraft 2 when it comes to updating them outside of the context of dependencies. 47:30 Between the Data Explorer and Data Navigator, StarCraft 2 did have this functionality. There were times where it failed to visually link some lesser-used fields with an ability. Hopefully it'll be an improvement. And who knows, maybe it being as "in your face" will help less experienced creators. I acknowledge that this is still in development, but so far, I'm not super optimistic about this being much of an improvement over what we have. I hope they'll take feedback and improve. I also hope they'll be more willing to iterate on the technology than Blizzard was, since we really didn't receive a lot of updates over the years, and what we did mostly came across as half-baked.

Will the editor support any sort of scripting language to use instead of the normal trigger editor, like how there was JASS in WC3 and GalaxyScript in SC2?

Question about hop in/out testing: Does the gameplay always restart at the beginning? Or can I really make changes on the fly while I am playing?

Lord of the Clans: Stormgate Edition

if the sausage is good then everybody want to know how its made, but then the chef won't tell cuz its a secret sauce if the sausage is bad then no one wants to know how its made

How long do people think it'll take for people to mod in the SC2 Races?

Hey Jaborino are you going to play Age of Mythology Retold?

Shame the actual game is quite poor. But maybe it'll be like Rusted Warfare where the engine is the actual selling point.

This looks so bad.