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I think it was a Gamasutra article, but I remember that it wasn't so much that they made Starcraft because of the demo, but rather that they made it a lot bette

• TeMPOraL 12y ago
  Not Gamasutra, it came directly from one of StarCraft's developers blog. Per [0], StarCraft was supposed to be the "Warcraft in Space" it didn't turn out to be, and it was meant as a quick project to fill the publishing gap. [1] Explains the fake demo thing and its influence on StarCraft development in lenghth. A key quote: "At some point I talked with Mark and Patrick about how Dominion Storm knocked us on our heels, and they let us in on Ion Storm’s dirty little secret: the entire demo was a pre-rendered movie, and the people who showed the “demo” were just pretending to play the game! It would be an understatement to say that we were gobsmacked; we had been duped into a rebooting StarCraft, which ultimately led it to be considered “the defining game of its genre. It is the standard by which all real-time strategy games are judged” (GameSpot)." [0] - http://www.codeofhonor.com/blog/tough-times-on-the-road-to-starcraft http://www.codeofhonor.com/blog/tough-times-on-the-road-to-s... [1] - http://www.codeofhonor.com/blog/starcraft-orcs-in-space-go-down-in-flames http://www.codeofhonor.com/blog/starcraft-orcs-in-space-go-d...