Hive Keeper - Dungeon Keeper remake on Starcraft 2

[Bibendus]

Single Player Release

The map has been published on EU/US servers, I'll try to make it downloadable as soon as possible for the other players.
Here is the release video I edited during the christmas night




Quick Description

This map is freely inspired to Dungeon Keeper 2 but all the game will be transported to the starcraft universe.
That means that all DK units, rooms and spells will be converted in SC2 units, giving them similar roles and abilities as they had in the original game.



Developement Diaries














Wanted features

- Dungeon Keeper remake
- Different gameplays (Invaders defense, Versus, Coop, Training)
- Selectable premade map
- Map editor with ability to share maps inside or outside the game
- Campaign



Progress

My project page on sc2mapster contains a fully detailed list of single features
http://www.sc2mapster.com/maps/hive-keeper/pages/main/



Units conversion

Spoiler

I prepared a list of units conversion from DK to SC2 and it seems the models are enough!
Imp (Drone - Summoned)
Firefly (Symbiote - Lair)
Zergling (Goblin - Lair)
Queen (Warlock - Library)
Abomination (Troll - Workshop)
Ultralisk - Pigalisk (Salamander - Training Room)
Hydralisk (Dark elf - Guard Room)
Infestor (Mistress - Torture Room)
Fatty (Bile Demon - Workshop + Food)
Roach (Rogue - Casinò)
Changeling (Skeleton - Prison)
Brutalisk (Dark Knight - Arena)
Hybrid Protoss (Dark Angel - Temple)
Vampire (Kerrigan - Graveyard)
Infested Unit* (Any enemy unit -Converted in Torture/Infestation Room)
Hybrid Zerg (Reaper - Summoned)

The idea is to use SC2 abilities to emulate DK abilities.
For example units will not be tortured but converted in the Infestation Room by special tentacles. And instead of mystress we'll have infestors that likes to help in conversion with their neural parasite.
If you have other ideas you are free to share them, I'm listening

Rooms preview - 2 missing

Spoiler

Lair


Hatchery


Training Room


Library


Workshop


Guard Room


Prison


Torture Chamber (Infestation Chamber)


Combat Pit


Graveyard


Temple

[A New Room]

Sounds interesting and looks like it has a lot potential, really hope you finish it.

[Bibendus]

Sounds interesting and looks like it has a lot potential, really hope you finish it.

Thanks, I really hope to

[kyle]

This kind of gives me insight into how good the starcraft map editor has. You should use different textures for claimed walls and claimed floors, makes it a bit clearer in my opinion.

Hopefully you get around to finishing this as I would love to play it

[Blutonium]

can the SCII Engine use custom models, music and sounds?

[Trotim]

This looks really neat. Unfortunately I gave up hope in the editor a long time ago, during beta. It was just too... cumbersome to use in comparison to WC3's.

[A New Room]

can the SCII Engine use custom models, music and sounds?

Yeash, I believe it can...

[Bibendus]

This kind of gives me insight into how good the starcraft map editor has. You should use different textures for claimed walls and claimed floors, makes it a bit clearer in my opinion.

Hopefully you get around to finishing this as I would love to play it

Models are temporary, BTW I need some ideas to look them differently.
Consider that the black creep will be slighly colored depending on the player color.

can the SCII Engine use custom models, music and sounds?

Yes it can but I won't use the original DK mdels for copyright reasons. Another reason for not using custom models is that models require high space and each sc2 mod is limited to a 10MB max size to allow publications online.


Oh and here is a concept that onisagi posted me on sc2mapster
I think you know what this will be

[Evi]

Poker Night at the Hive, I see.



Anyways, I would like to see your project finished one day.

[natchoguy]

Hybrid Protoss (Dark Angel - Temple)
Vampire (Kerrigan - Graveyard)
Infested Unit* (Any enemy unit -Converted in Torture/Infestation Room)

Ummmm....