In almost every map, all of the players would start on an equal footing, whereas in the real life Retera was smaller than the other people in this social group and started off on an unequal, inferior footing. These served more or less as a way to sate the desire for bringing daydreams into reality more than anything.Īs the youngest in a real-life social group of five people who would come together to play Warcraft III on a roughly annual basis, Retera became fascinated by the Warcraft III game because of its socialist way for handling human interaction. Retera created dozens of maps that were tiny and unfinished.
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However, the project was the second in a series of Warcraft III-related 4-H projects that Retera had submitted to his local county fair, and unlike Retera's 2003 project depicting how creating a custom campaign on Warcraft III was an educational experience for kids like himself that taught the use of terms like "Variables" and "Integers" and "Booleans," the "Summons of the Void" website was not a hit with the judges because of the red text on a black background that evoked a certain sense of angst.įor Retera, the World Editor became his home during his formative years, so that when he came home from school every day he would open the World Editor even when he had no plan for what to do with it or what he was going to make. The models available on the site were not created specifically for the site. Creating "Summons of the Void" had been an enjoyable effort to document Warcraft III MDL editing that Retera had already been doing prior to 2004.
Until this time, his use of the internet to communicate about Warcraft III consisted solely of his own model download website created in 2004, called "Summons of the Void," which offered users a variety of Warcraft III custom models that were mostly reskins. Retera is a Hive Workshop member who joined the website in 2008 to ask for a solution to a bug that has still never been fixed even in Warcraft III Reforged.