I’m not all that excited about Starcraft 2. From the little I played, I’m just thinking right now it’s too much of a wait for too little of a change. 12 years for that, Blizzard? Really? Talk about a slippery slope!

And that comes from a guy that played thousands of hours of the first Starcraft. At some point, my whole life was driven by this game: my friends, my job, my girlfriend, they all came from playing it way too much. I know many are into SC2, starting with my mates dotsMarc and Khao, but it just hasn’t it me so far.

Or wait, maybe it just did, very recently and from another angle, when I discovered gameplay videos of what some people out there are doing with the Galaxy Editor. If you don’t know what that is, it’s a tool that’s built in the game that lets anyone create their own maps. Or should I say their own games, rather?

The possibilities seem to be very many. I picked some of the best stuff that I’ve seen on Youtube, it’s right below.

>> More Galaxy Editor videos

Walking through the campus, Mikael stops suddenly. It’s effing cold. Why!?

He’s pointing in a direction. At his fingertips, afar, Manhattan’s tall buildings are hiding part of the sky. “Isn’t it beautiful?”, he asks. I nod.  “The whole school was standing right here on 9/11, looking at the towers.” I can only imagine the show.

Mikael Karlsson is the music composer for the Battlefield: Bad Company games.

Last month he took me to visit the school he teaches at.

> click here for the visit