I’d love to see the source-code comments over-time as they tweaked the balancing rules in SC… but are these leaks just a snapshot of the file system or does it include the full source-control history?
If you haven't seen it before, you might enjoy Patrick Wyatt's (a lead dev for a time at Blizzard) blog. It is a treasure trove of anecdotes and war stories.
Ah yes - I remember reading his article about the origins of StarCraft way-back-when - when StarCraft was still a low-effort "Orcs in space" re-skin of Warcraft 2, but they went to E3 or CES and got spooked by Ion Storm's demo of their visually impressive, isometric, RTS game - and reinvented SC - released SC - and the rest is history - while it turned out Ion Storm's demo was a prerendered video fake. That's a story right there.
Extremely cool read, thank you for sharing this. The author's other posts are interesting too. I learned they disabled collision for resource harvesting units so they could smoothly fly through each other on the way to/from the base and resources.