Starcraft: Ashfall

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206 points | by debo_ 20 hours ago ago

70 comments

  • gbnwl 2 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_ranger 19 hours ago

    Wow someone made the youtube ad game!

    • butlike 3 hours ago

      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 an 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.

      • nicce 13 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 2 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 an 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.

        • nilamo an hour ago

          It's a legal issue, and the legal part has always been bullshit regardless of which specific label happens to apply.

          • syspec 29 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.

            • 59percentmore 8 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.

      • 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 an hour ago

          Yeah the law firms just haven't caught up yet. But they will.

          • nilamo an hour 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 16 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 an hour ago

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    • ForHackernews 35 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.

  • 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 18 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 an hour ago

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  • buf 19 hours ago

    Saw Starcraft, spent 30 minutes living the nostalgia playing this.

  • j7ake an hour ago

    Game crashes when trying to fuse units

  • 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 43 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.

    • 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 8 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 18 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.

  • lai an hour ago

    So what's the meta?

    • Noe2097 an hour ago

      there is no meta but what we vibe

      • lai an hour 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.

  • 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.

  • butlike 3 hours ago

    It's nice to know Stimpack marines still roll face.

    • debo_ 2 hours ago

      Ahhhh yeahhhh

  • theogravity 2 hours ago

    That was pretty enjoyable. Definitely like the ads you see online but with IP people care about.

  • marvstazar 18 hours ago

    I was wondering why there was a dragon there, is it from Wrath of the Lich King?

  • ReptileMan 41 minutes ago

    Big game hunters Terran vs 7PC zergs. Same feeling.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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  • 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 7 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

  • seattle_spring 2 hours ago

    Holy moly, just hearing those sound effects gives me a giant wave of nostalgia.

  • jonenst an hour ago

    Wake up, Hank. That game ain’t gonna play itself. Oh wait it does.

  • noah640090 6 hours ago

    This was really fun!

  • johng 20 hours ago

    Really cool game. Spent about 30 minutes playing it. Very fun!

  • bigwheels 34 minutes ago

    See also: D2 Survivors https://d2survivors.lol/

    The AI games mashups are starting to heat up.

  • jdw64 2 hours ago

    nice game

  • theylieeasieral 33 minutes ago

    slop

  • cyh555 16 hours ago

    so nice!

  • lgessler 2 hours ago

    This is, respectfully, slop piggybacking on nostalgic associations with stolen assets.

  • pavluu an hour ago

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