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***PLAY THE STARCRAFTS MOD DEMO FOR FREE

THE MOD DEMO HERE: battlenet://starcraft/map/1/182043 

Or you can manually into Battlenet > Starcraft 2 > ARCADE > type into search browser: "star crafts mod" (make sure it is all spaced)

INTRODUCING THE STARCRAFTS MOD!

Carbot Animations has been creating StarCrafts episodes for almost 3 years now! We love the Starcraft community and have been very lucky to have received such positive responses from our cartoons for the past 3 years! You guys are awesome! And so, after many requests and comments and begging, we are finally taking the cartoon style animation and reskinning it into the Starcraft 2 game! 

Everything from a tree to a battlecruiser, buildings, landscapes, doodads (props), ect, everything! The mod will be custom game in the arcade, with a series of different maps to play against and with your friends. It is not accessible as a skin on the Starcraft 2 ladder, but maybe one day this dream could come true (BLIZZARD PLZ). The Starcrafts Mod will be accessible in the Starcrafts arcade for free!

Yes the STARCRAFTS MOD is FREE! 
It is Accessible In the Starcraft Arcade for free to ANYONE. You do NOT need to buy the Starcraft game to play! 

 

What We Want To Give To The Community With The StarCrafts Mod

How Many People Are On Our Team?

The team consist of 6 people: 2 Animators, 3 Developers & 1 Project Manager. 
3 team members are full-time and 3 are part-time.

The $70,000 will be used to fund the project for the 6 Team members to work over the course of the next year to complete the Mod. And to say the least, we are more than excited to make this!
 

Is Blizzard Funding you?

We are just like any other community Starcraft crowd funding campaign. It is up to us the community, if this project will live or die! So let us all band together and help us prevail!

Glimpse Of The Work That Needs To Be Done

Work for our 2 animators  We will have to animate over:

•  54+ units
  They all have their own run cycle, idle cycle, attacks, deaths with a minimum of
• 4 directions to animate and then carefully and painfully  import them frame by frame into the game so that they match up and sync with the game mechanics. 
  So that's
• 348 frames (hand drawn pictures) total to complete ONE 2D unit
  There are also over 46 buildings, then landscape re-skinning and countless doodads (props) to bring the atmosphere together!
   

This is an example of 6 units and their respective sprite sheets, some animations have yet to be completed for these 6, such as various death animations.  We still have about 60 to go.

LOL and that is just for the 6 units! It is alot of work, but we are confident we can get this done. It's our passion :D

Please help us to to our goal of $70,000! Yes, $70,000 seems like a scary number but as mentioned before this is for a team of 6 people for a working period for a year! We tried to keep this amount low as possible for 6 workers for the Starcrafts community. 

Animation is one of the most under estimated time consuming types of work, and can take weeks or even months just to complete a minute or 2 of a good quality cartoon for 1 person.  We keep our animation simple & short enough that we can make a cartoon every week on our youtube channel.  This time we are taking that same skill into creating game art for this mod that we can't wait to get out!  

Once the Starcrafts Mod is complete, you can expect a full fledged cartoon world! from ui, icons to units, buildings, and landscape with the attitude and character for each race from the StarCrafts show.  Again this will be available FREE for you and all your friends in the StarCraft 2 arcade which is free to play, and also accessible to those who do not have the Starcrafts game.

Help Promote the Mod!

Share, Like, Tweet, any bit helps! :D
We will  be regularly updating and promoting the mod on our social media sites.

Stretch Goals Explanations: 

 Each "New Map Tile Set" will introduce a new map the the StarCrafts Mod with a unique environment and map layout, Grass Lands, Lava Lands, Desert Lands and Snow Lands.

LotV units...
Is the addition of the new units in Legacy of the Void to the StarCrafts mod!

StarCrafts Plus...

   This is something we are particularly interested in doing.  StarCrafts Plus will be an optional mode available alongside of the StarCrafts mod. We really want to change the gameplay to better suit the art style to something less stressful and just pure fun while keeping the core mechanics.  Marines will be trampolining off supply depots, mutalisks slamming workers on the ground, zealots punting zerglings off cliffs and everything that was fun and interesting in the cartoons to be added to make dynamic and fun gameplay.

StarCrafts Campaign Adventure...

   This will be an adventure that you can play with friends.  There will be several characters to choose from with compelling gameplay and a boss fight at the end!

8 Direction Animation... 
   The entire project is a lot of work, a lot more than we expected, so currently we are only planning 4 animated directions for each unit.  However, if we achieve this goal we will enhance the quality to 8 as demonstrated below.

Moar StarCrafts!!!
   Any extra money will go towards adding new environments, enriching StarCrafts plus or adding another chapter to the StarCrafts adventure.

4 Direction Sprite Sheet (8 doubles it) 

4 Direction vs 8 Direction

These goals are very ambitious but we wanted to show you the visions and hopes for this mod that we could do. Thankyou community for the continuous support you have given us! If you would like to see this mod come true please donate! And together we will defeat the Evil Derpfestor!