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Very cool! GW2 is currently my favorite game and am really surprised to see it on HN frontpage. I'm astounded at the amount of data ANet is making available.
by garraeth 14y ago
Very cool!
GW2 is currently my favorite game and am really surprised to see it on HN frontpage.
I'm astounded at the amount of data ANet is making available. And, how cleanly and robustly they've done it - all in JSON.
Another bit you might want to play with is their TP (Trading Post) JSON data. These guys (http://www.gw2spidy.com http://www.gw2spidy.com, source is on github) do a really good job, but I'm sure there are tons more things, and ideas, that can come from all that data!
Good luck!
- w1ntermute 14y ago> GW2 is currently my favorite game How do you think it compares to GW1? I have GW1, but found it a little lonely after leaving the cities because outside the cities, the regions were instanced.
- abrahamsen 14y agoOnly personal story and dungeons are instantiated. The open world is shared, and very collaborative.
- dyselon 14y agoI'm quite fond of both games, but it's dangerous to directly compare them. GW1 is a Diablo style game that flirts with massive elements, whereas GW2 is much more of a traditional MMO. They certainly have plenty of things in common - a similar approach to/focus on PvP, similar action bar combat with a lot of attention paid to status effects - but they're not even really in the same genre, and GW2's focus on ad-hoc collaboration means that GW2 plays much differently moment-to-moment. GW2 does some great things with quests, their PQ-ish Dynamic Events work well, and their huge raid-boss-y world dudes are a ton of fun. The way you can join multiple guilds and the way you are scaled down in level based on where you are makes it really easy to play with friends regardless of your individual progression. It's definitely worth a look.