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People might pay for this in SC2: a web interface to tournaments and replays.

• eru 16y ago
  It should be easier to do something similar for Star Craft 1 as a proof of concept, first. You can even recreate the real graphics, instead of the abstractions presented here.
  • wtallis 16y ago
    The original StarCraft would almost be too easy: if you look at the system requirements, it's clear that the whole game could be ported to javascript and still run smoothly on modern systems.
    • eru 16y ago
      Let's do it. (Although the Civilization games shouldn't be too hard on processing power either. There are almost board games [1].) [1] Extremely complicated board games.
      • zokier 16y ago
        You might be interested in freeciv.net, civilization implemented in html5.
        • eru 16y ago
          Thanks! I knew freeciv from when I played it on Linux locally years and years ago. Interesting, that they made an online version.
• aperiodic 16y ago
  I've tinkered around with doing something like this for SC2 replays, and it's actually a pretty difficult proposition. SC2 replay files only store the low-level commands issued by the player: selecting and deselecting units, movement and attack commands, build commands, the like. It doesn't contain any information about resources or units produced, since that's handled by the game engine. In order to figure out what actually happened in a given replay, you've got to either re-implement the SC2 game engine, or code-inject the SC2 executable to grab the information you want while it's playing the replay file. Since the first task is monumental, and I have no experience with code injection, I shelved the idea until there's something like the Chaos Launcher[1] for SC2. [1]: http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/Chaoslauncher http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/Chaoslauncher
  • andreyf 16y ago
    Did you document your tinkering? Would you care to publish it?
    • aperiodic 16y ago
      I didn't add anything to what's already out there (I don't exactly have the patience for reverse-engineering). The most comprehensive overview of the replay format is the wiki[1] for Lauri Virkamaki's phpsc2replay project. Head and shoulders above everything else I found, which were mainly random forum threads. [1]: http://code.google.com/p/phpsc2replay/w/list http://code.google.com/p/phpsc2replay/w/list