today at 9:47 PM
Wow, thanks to whoever posted this! I made this game.
Like many, I was frustrated there's no new StarCraft coming till 2030, so I half-jokingly made the mini-game those mobile ads always promise and never deliver. Something you can play with one hand, that your friends who've never played StarCraft can just pick up.(Turns out you can squeeze a lot of extra gameplay/design on top of it.)
Also, if you're going to copy Blizzard you might as well copy the whole package right, so there's a CG trailer too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVDao71LC7A
Honestly didn't expect people to grind this. I designed the endgame to be layer 50 and thought ppl can get at most ~70 if they really try, and somehow there are people on the leaderboard past 100 (without cheating). That's StarCraft players for you.
today at 9:58 PM
Hi I posted it. I'm just a guy in the chat who saw it on YouTube.
today at 10:11 PM
Thank you so much for sharing it, really made my day!
today at 7:34 PM
Reddit thread from about a month ago where creator introduced this: https://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/1wqdabw/i_made_t...
today at 3:04 AM
Wow someone made the youtube ad game!
today at 6:44 PM
There's also pinball and an asteroids-like game if you click the "Arcade" button next to where it says "Ashfall Crossing"
today at 7:43 PM
A shame if they don't recreate the Lost Viking game from Wings of Liberty itself.
today at 3:40 AM
cool, give me more
today at 7:36 AM
Cool visuals, but doesn't count as a game for me. Can you do anything that make sense, except selecting the upgrade?
Could be a nice little game, though. Strip the IP and let the AI implement a bit more for the user to do.
today at 10:16 PM
It basically has the same gameplay as ProgressQuest, an adventure game that was famously created to minimize user involvement.
https://progressquest.com/play/newguy.html
today at 8:34 PM
It’s actually very addicting once you play a couple of sessions. The scoreboard is crazy. Still don’t know how anyone makes it past wave (layer) 35-37.
today at 9:32 PM
I got around 42. Protos commander felt stronger for the effort.
today at 6:46 PM
It's like cookie clicker, with less clicking and more blood!
today at 7:15 PM
Once you get high enough you can switch commanders which gives additional upgrades and active powers.
today at 7:34 PM
I've been seeing a lot of Pokemon games recently as well, are companies just not enforcing their copyright/trademarks anymore?
today at 7:51 PM
They can't sue everyone, comrade. AI tools will hopefully trigger a rewrite of what copyright means, it's always been silly that it prevents derivitive works.
today at 8:41 PM
> AI tools will hopefully trigger a rewrite of what copyright means,
Maybe it will, but this ain't a copyright issues, it's a trademark issue.
today at 8:59 PM
It's a legal issue, and the legal part has always been bullshit regardless of which specific label happens to apply.
today at 10:14 PM
If you don't make copyright contagious under derivative works then people can just change a few things to get around copyright.
Also, do you really want a world where big film studios can just adapt books of writers without compensating them?
today at 9:16 PM
Surprised to see this level of discourse here on HN, reads like a reddit comment.
Copyright sucks, and Disney is bad etc, but how is using StarCraft and its assets in your random AI game okay?
I mean, creators should be allowed to exert control over how their assets and brand are used.
today at 9:56 PM
I've always found that defending laws that don't benefit people to be a stange attitude on a place called "hacker news".
Creative people should be able to create. Trademark/copyright laws, protecting assets for the great-grandchildren of who actually created the art, has never been a positive. The only people who benefit, are themselves not creative (or else they would create, instead of defending "rights" and "image").
today at 10:12 PM
>but how is using StarCraft and its assets in your random AI game okay? How is it not ok? What is the issue exactly? From what I can tell it's totally free, and has an indication it is a fan game on the bottom of the screen.
today at 9:37 PM
>Copyright sucks, and Disney is bad etc, but how is using StarCraft and its assets in your random AI game okay?
Because it's cool.
today at 9:49 PM
The number of conglomerates has, unsurprisingly, continued to shrink. It's long overdue for a rethink. Maybe if the US political system ever stabilizes, we might get to it in a hundred years. Until then Copyright sucks and Disney is bad.
today at 9:50 PM
> creators should be allowed to exert control over how their assets and brand are used
I hate to be glib, but no they shouldn't.
Creators should be allowed to create things and sell them. No one, whether the creator, or the company the creator worked for when they first created the thing, should be able to stop someone else from creating something.
today at 10:06 PM
When it comes to copyright, I am not so optimistic. When the AI bubble bursts, the usual corporate interests will resurface with a vengeance.
today at 8:07 PM
Couldn’t they just use AI to sue at scale? No one should be too small to go after now.
today at 8:13 PM
The court system is too bogged up as it is with the current load. So I guess we’d have to create some AI judges and lawyers :p
today at 8:23 PM
Yeah the law firms just haven't caught up yet. But they will.
today at 9:00 PM
And when the judges get around to the case in 300 years after all the other ai court cases, we'll be beyond caring about the consequences.
today at 9:29 PM
Law firms are cautious about AI tools, they got burned a couple years ago by hallucinated citations.
Citing made-up cases sure looks like lying to the court, which is a punishable offense. Lawyers have been sanctioned, fined, and in one case received a 30-day license suspension.
today at 8:20 PM
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today at 7:43 PM
they may well be busy surviving AI induced chain reactions letting lots of people out of work.
today at 9:10 PM
It's a totally original creation laundered through LLM derivative works.
today at 8:00 PM
This is the second (probably vibecoded?) game in the last few days that I've seen using blizzard ip (the other being d2survivors.lol)
today at 3:18 AM
Game basically plays itself but fun nonetheless
today at 10:57 AM
For 10-15 levels or so, then your upgrade choices start to matter.
I only played through it once, but I'm convinced I'd do better on a second run, and a third, etc.
today at 12:10 PM
The satisfying pop of the zerglings alone make it fun for me.
today at 8:21 PM
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today at 9:51 PM
It's not a fun game, but it's cool anyway
today at 3:15 AM
Saw Starcraft, spent 30 minutes living the nostalgia playing this.
today at 6:48 PM
Fun game.
I have to pick a new upgrade every 3 seconds. I thought they did that to stave off boredom, but actually it increases decision fatigue. (I just wanna shoot!)
today at 8:53 PM
Game crashes when trying to fuse units
today at 9:00 PM
You must build additional pylons
today at 8:55 PM
THE MERGING IS NOT COMPLETE
today at 3:09 AM
I did not touch the controls at all, and I still won with zero losses on the first level - that does not inspire confidence.
today at 9:02 PM
In snowball games like this, losing a unit marks the beginning of the end. As such, you really have to go out of your way to lose units in the tutorial.
today at 6:48 PM
controls aren't important, upgrade/tech choices are
today at 3:08 AM
Is this AI generated? Pretty impressive if that is the case
today at 3:14 AM
Definitely smells like ai. I don't think a human would spend so much time on the graphics and effects and not have streamlined the gameplay a bit.
today at 1:16 PM
The opposite would be correct. AI generated is the norm, and it would be impressive to spend xxx hours creating this when AI can do it in 4 hours
today at 3:29 AM
Assets are very easily duplicated because of the editor that ships with the game. Not as impressive as it would be if it were other games with more tightly-locked assets.
today at 3:59 AM
Great game. It took me way too long to figure out I could use keyboard to control the positioning instead of mouse.
today at 8:24 PM
So what's the meta?
today at 8:36 PM
there is no meta but what we vibe
today at 8:59 PM
I'm noticing that armor pen is super important later on. However, eventually get rekt.. I'm curious how the top person got to the layer he is in now. I'm stuck at layer 26.
today at 6:45 PM
It's nice to know Stimpack marines still roll face.
today at 7:18 PM
Ahhhh yeahhhh
today at 7:28 PM
That was pretty enjoyable. Definitely like the ads you see online but with IP people care about.
today at 3:16 AM
I was wondering why there was a dragon there, is it from Wrath of the Lich King?
today at 3:03 AM
Lots of fun! Wish StarCraft would come out every year
today at 7:52 PM
Too busy making the new StarCraft.
today at 2:48 AM
Ah, the music is so nostalgic. Really takes me back.
today at 12:00 PM
Cool game, but isn't this going to make blizzard bring out the big guns?
today at 3:00 AM
Great work on this, had a blast!
today at 3:03 AM
I did not make this, for the record. I just found it.
today at 3:04 AM
today at 9:04 PM
Big game hunters Terran vs 7PC zergs. Same feeling.
today at 3:43 AM
Perfect, who needed to be productive anyways
today at 2:25 PM
A mix of everything. Stolen from everywhere. We have AI, but people are still the bottleneck. They lack creativity and ideas :D. lol
today at 7:54 PM
Fun, but... how is this not already taken down by copyright strikes? I mean straight rips of audio assets, music, 3d assets, graphics, even the damn name...
today at 3:58 PM
This was really fun!
today at 7:19 PM
Holy moly, just hearing those sound effects gives me a giant wave of nostalgia.
today at 1:56 AM
Really cool game. Spent about 30 minutes playing it. Very fun!
today at 8:27 PM
Wake up, Hank. That game ain’t gonna play itself. Oh wait it does.
today at 7:30 PM
This is, respectfully, slop piggybacking on nostalgic associations with stolen assets.
today at 7:33 PM
nice game
today at 9:11 PM
See also: D2 Survivors https://d2survivors.lol/
The AI games mashups are starting to heat up.
today at 5:18 AM
so nice!
today at 9:12 PM
slop
today at 8:27 PM
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