Starcraft class offered at Berkeley
At the University of California, Berkeley, you can now take a class that discusses the finer points of Starcraft.
In an article by Tumeroks, The class is for students with an “interest in real-time strategy games and the competitive gaming landscape.”
The topics covered in the class include theory of war within Starcraft and computational aspects of battles in the game.
Students are expected to have knowledge of calculus and differential equations and there will be homework assigned for the class.
Released in 1998, Starcraft is a real-time strategy game is based in the future, where exiled humans colonized a distant part of the galaxy in the 26th century and fight against two different groups of aliens, the Protoss and the Zerg. The game is currently popular in South Korea, which hosts professional teams in televised matches.
Today’s homework will be to challenge seven of your classmates in a deathmatch using the BGH map. Please bring your saved replay file with a 1 page kill ratio analysis using the Zerg/Protoss/Human cycle equations that we derived in class ;-P
Tags: class, college, RTS, Starcraft, video game
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