gbnwl2 hours ago
Reddit thread from about a month ago where creator introduced this: https://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/1wqdabw/i_made_t...
neko_ranger19 hours ago
Wow someone made the youtube ad game!
butlike3 hours ago
There's also pinball and an asteroids-like game if you click the "Arcade" button next to where it says "Ashfall Crossing"
gs172 hours ago
A shame if they don't recreate the Lost Viking game from Wings of Liberty itself.
dxcqcv18 hours ago
cool, give me more
bulbar14 hours ago
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.
p2detaran hour ago
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.
nicce8 minutes ago
I got around 42. Protos commander felt stronger for the effort.
andai3 hours ago
It's like cookie clicker, with less clicking and more blood!
AngryData2 hours ago
Once you get high enough you can switch commanders which gives additional upgrades and active powers.
an0malous2 hours ago
I've been seeing a lot of Pokemon games recently as well, are companies just not enforcing their copyright/trademarks anymore?
nilamo2 hours ago
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.
lelanthranan hour ago
> 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.
nilamo41 minutes ago
It's a legal issue, and the legal part has always been bullshit regardless of which specific label happens to apply.
syspec24 minutes ago
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.
59percentmore3 minutes ago
>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.
deadbabe2 hours ago
Couldn’t they just use AI to sue at scale? No one should be too small to go after now.
creakingstairsan hour ago
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
bhhaskinan hour ago
Yeah the law firms just haven't caught up yet. But they will.
nilamo40 minutes ago
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.
Legend244011 minutes ago
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.
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ForHackernews30 minutes ago
It's a totally original creation laundered through LLM derivative works.
larodi2 hours ago
they may well be busy surviving AI induced chain reactions letting lots of people out of work.
temp08262 hours ago
This is the second (probably vibecoded?) game in the last few days that I've seen using blizzard ip (the other being d2survivors.lol)
mastax18 hours ago
Game basically plays itself but fun nonetheless
croon11 hours ago
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.
karim7910 hours ago
The satisfying pop of the zerglings alone make it fun for me.
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buf18 hours ago
Saw Starcraft, spent 30 minutes living the nostalgia playing this.
j7akean hour ago
Game crashes when trying to fuse units
smallmancontrovan hour ago
THE MERGING IS NOT COMPLETE
malfist41 minutes ago
You must build additional pylons
andai3 hours ago
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!)
no-name-here19 hours ago
I did not touch the controls at all, and I still won with zero losses on the first level - that does not inspire confidence.
itishappy38 minutes ago
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.
coralreef3 hours ago
controls aren't important, upgrade/tech choices are
nafey19 hours ago
Is this AI generated? Pretty impressive if that is the case
blueblock18 hours ago
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.
NorthernGulch8 hours ago
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
datsci_est_201518 hours ago
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.
laian hour ago
So what's the meta?
Noe2097an hour ago
there is no meta but what we vibe
lai41 minutes ago
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.
dmix18 hours ago
Great game. It took me way too long to figure out I could use keyboard to control the positioning instead of mouse.
butlike3 hours ago
It's nice to know Stimpack marines still roll face.
debo_op2 hours ago
Ahhhh yeahhhh
theogravity2 hours ago
That was pretty enjoyable. Definitely like the ads you see online but with IP people care about.
marvstazar18 hours ago
I was wondering why there was a dragon there, is it from Wrath of the Lich King?
ReptileMan36 minutes ago
Big game hunters Terran vs 7PC zergs. Same feeling.
tdhz7719 hours ago
Lots of fun! Wish StarCraft would come out every year
hirako20002 hours ago
Too busy making the new StarCraft.
spicyusername19 hours ago
Ah, the music is so nostalgic. Really takes me back.
karim7910 hours ago
Cool game, but isn't this going to make blizzard bring out the big guns?
jmcdonald-ut19 hours ago
Great work on this, had a blast!
debo_op19 hours ago
I did not make this, for the record. I just found it.
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kixpanganiban18 hours ago
Perfect, who needed to be productive anyways
gigel822 hours ago
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...
lofaszvanitt7 hours ago
A mix of everything. Stolen from everywhere. We have AI, but people are still the bottleneck. They lack creativity and ideas :D. lol
jonenstan hour ago
Wake up, Hank. That game ain’t gonna play itself. Oh wait it does.
seattle_spring2 hours ago
Holy moly, just hearing those sound effects gives me a giant wave of nostalgia.
noah6400906 hours ago
This was really fun!
bigwheels29 minutes ago
See also: D2 Survivors https://d2survivors.lol/
The AI games mashups are starting to heat up.
johng20 hours ago
Really cool game. Spent about 30 minutes playing it. Very fun!
jdw642 hours ago
nice game
theylieeasieral28 minutes ago
slop
cyh55516 hours ago
so nice!
lgessler2 hours ago
This is, respectfully, slop piggybacking on nostalgic associations with stolen assets.
pavluuan hour ago
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