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.)
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.
debo_ 5 minutes ago [-]
Hi I posted it. I'm just a guy in the chat who saw it on YouTube.
There's also pinball and an asteroids-like game if you click the "Arcade" button next to where it says "Ashfall Crossing"
gs17 2 hours ago [-]
A shame if they don't recreate the Lost Viking game from Wings of Liberty itself.
dxcqcv 18 hours ago [-]
cool, give me more
bulbar 14 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.
p2detar 1 hours 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.
nicce 31 minutes ago [-]
I got around 42. Protos commander felt stronger for the effort.
andai 3 hours ago [-]
It's like cookie clicker, with less clicking and more blood!
AngryData 3 hours ago [-]
Once you get high enough you can switch commanders which gives additional upgrades and active powers.
an0malous 2 hours ago [-]
I've been seeing a lot of Pokemon games recently as well, are companies just not enforcing their copyright/trademarks anymore?
nilamo 2 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.
lelanthran 1 hours 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.
nilamo 1 hours ago [-]
It's a legal issue, and the legal part has always been bullshit regardless of which specific label happens to apply.
syspec 47 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.
nilamo 7 minutes ago [-]
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").
sharkjacobs 13 minutes ago [-]
> 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.
59percentmore 26 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.
Supermancho 14 minutes ago [-]
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.
deadbabe 2 hours ago [-]
Couldn’t they just use AI to sue at scale? No one should be too small to go after now.
creakingstairs 2 hours 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
bhhaskin 2 hours ago [-]
Yeah the law firms just haven't caught up yet. But they will.
nilamo 1 hours 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.
Legend2440 34 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.
throwaway613746 2 hours ago [-]
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ForHackernews 53 minutes ago [-]
It's a totally original creation laundered through LLM derivative works.
larodi 2 hours ago [-]
they may well be busy surviving AI induced chain reactions letting lots of people out of work.
sharkjacobs 12 minutes ago [-]
It's not a fun game, but it's cool anyway
temp0826 2 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)
mastax 19 hours ago [-]
Game basically plays itself but fun nonetheless
croon 11 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.
karim79 10 hours ago [-]
The satisfying pop of the zerglings alone make it fun for me.
throwaway613746 2 hours ago [-]
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buf 19 hours ago [-]
Saw Starcraft, spent 30 minutes living the nostalgia playing this.
j7ake 1 hours ago [-]
Game crashes when trying to fuse units
smallmancontrov 1 hours ago [-]
THE MERGING IS NOT COMPLETE
malfist 1 hours ago [-]
You must build additional pylons
andai 3 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-here 19 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.
itishappy 1 hours 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.
coralreef 3 hours ago [-]
controls aren't important, upgrade/tech choices are
nafey 19 hours ago [-]
Is this AI generated? Pretty impressive if that is the case
blueblock 19 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.
NorthernGulch 9 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_2015 19 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.
dmix 18 hours ago [-]
Great game. It took me way too long to figure out I could use keyboard to control the positioning instead of mouse.
lai 2 hours ago [-]
So what's the meta?
Noe2097 1 hours ago [-]
there is no meta but what we vibe
lai 1 hours 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.
butlike 3 hours ago [-]
It's nice to know Stimpack marines still roll face.
debo_ 3 hours ago [-]
Ahhhh yeahhhh
theogravity 3 hours ago [-]
That was pretty enjoyable. Definitely like the ads you see online but with IP people care about.
marvstazar 19 hours ago [-]
I was wondering why there was a dragon there, is it from Wrath of the Lich King?
tdhz77 19 hours ago [-]
Lots of fun! Wish StarCraft would come out every year
hirako2000 2 hours ago [-]
Too busy making the new StarCraft.
spicyusername 19 hours ago [-]
Ah, the music is so nostalgic.
Really takes me back.
ReptileMan 59 minutes ago [-]
Big game hunters Terran vs 7PC zergs. Same feeling.
karim79 10 hours ago [-]
Cool game, but isn't this going to make blizzard bring out the big guns?
jmcdonald-ut 19 hours ago [-]
Great work on this, had a blast!
debo_ 19 hours ago [-]
I did not make this, for the record. I just found it.
19 hours ago [-]
kixpanganiban 18 hours ago [-]
Perfect, who needed to be productive anyways
gigel82 2 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...
lofaszvanitt 8 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
noah640090 6 hours ago [-]
This was really fun!
seattle_spring 3 hours ago [-]
Holy moly, just hearing those sound effects gives me a giant wave of nostalgia.
jonenst 2 hours ago [-]
Wake up, Hank. That game ain’t gonna play itself.
Oh wait it does.
johng 20 hours ago [-]
Really cool game. Spent about 30 minutes playing it. Very fun!
lgessler 3 hours ago [-]
This is, respectfully, slop piggybacking on nostalgic associations with stolen assets.
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.
Could be a nice little game, though. Strip the IP and let the AI implement a bit more for the user to do.
Maybe it will, but this ain't a copyright issues, it's a trademark issue.
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.
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").
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.
Because it's cool.
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.
I only played through it once, but I'm convinced I'd do better on a second run, and a third, etc.
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!)
The AI games mashups are starting to heat up.