Heart of the Swarm

The latest expansion to the most popular RTS game and number 1 professional game Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm has been released. It has been a very exciting week with a couple of day launch party streamed on Twitch.tv held across several countries. Blizzard has done a great job with marketing and creating hype for this awesome game. Unfortunately for me, I am unable to purchase HOTS with my Battle.net balance (in USD). Its a problem. For me, I was living in the states when Wings of Liberty was released so I purchased the digital NA version. I have submitted a trouble ticket with support asking them to enable me to purchase the upgrade in US since I own the NA version. Still no response. Its ok though, because I have loads of work to do on Keyboarding Master. I have been spending several nights a week hammering out the loading of profiles to the Assign Input UI. This new menu is much better than in jnostromo. I am currently on handling keyboard input. This blog post is about SC2's HOTS and in celebration, I have mocked up a new profile UI which has a new profile for SC2's HOTS. The layout of the profile isn't in code, I just used gimp to see how it could be improved. So far, I really like the look - its more appealing to the eyes than the previous UI design. Below describes each item.

• Type: Indicates the type of App which is either a game or application.
• App: The name of the application this profile is used with. At this time, only 1 App per profile can be listed (however, the profile can be used with multiple Apps - its just it can only have on App name).
• Profile: The name of the profile.
• Info: Information about the profile.
• Author: The name of the author who created this profile (note, updating the profile does not change the owner's name).
• Updated: The last date that this profile was updated (even if its a different owner, the date correlates to changes to the profile).
• App Details: An icon and a brief description of the app.
• Developer: The main developer of the application - can be a logo or text

Also note, I have decreased the size of the buttons from 48x48 to 24x24. I think it fits better.

What does everyone think?