EPTEDIT: Due to SC not being open sourced and legal reasons, I propose creating a new game like starcraft that can be played in the browser. That means I also need a good graphics person on the team.
New interesting project. Any good coders in TL?
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jyim89
United States33 Posts
EDIT: Due to SC not being open sourced and legal reasons, I propose creating a new game like starcraft that can be played in the browser. That means I also need a good graphics person on the team. | ||
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Tabbris
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Jakalo
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jyim89
United States33 Posts
On September 11 2010 03:38 Jakalo wrote: Is it legal? Actually I hadn't thought about that. If we open source it and not make profit off it, I don't think it would cause too much problems would it? | ||
MasterOfChaos
Germany2896 Posts
It's also not legal without permission from blizzard. | ||
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jyim89
United States33 Posts
On September 11 2010 03:42 MasterOfChaos wrote: Quake 2 is open source, so you "just" need to convert c to javascript, SC is closed source, so you need to convert from x86 asm. It's also not legal without permission from blizzard. Oh didn't realize Quake 2 was open sourced. I thought that guy did some uber hack magic or something. | ||
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KingofHearts
Japan562 Posts
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jyim89
United States33 Posts
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cafaro
Netherlands32 Posts
There are a lot of other cool demos on the web. Love the fact you can do so much stuff with just <canvas> and JS. Never used WebGL before though, I really should play with it sometime  | ||
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buhhy
United States1113 Posts
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vGl-CoW
Belgium8305 Posts
good luck sir | ||
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jyim89
United States33 Posts
On September 11 2010 04:29 buhhy wrote: Wouldn't Javascript BW be very slow and sluggish? The quake 2 game that the guy ported ran at 30 frames per second. He said if he actually tried to could double that frame rate which is enough for even sc2 to run on. Javascript computation power is supposedly ALOT better than it was previously so if it can run Quake 2 without too much lag, it should run SC BW just fine. As for networking issues, I feel like if we kept the network design as simple as possible, latency wouldn't be as much of a problem as it was in SC BW. These are just my thoughts though, let me know if u guys think otherwise | ||
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DeckOneBell
United States526 Posts
On September 11 2010 03:32 jyim89 wrote:EDIT: Due to SC not being open sourced and legal reasons, I propose creating a new game like starcraft that can be played in the browser. That means I also need a good graphics person on the team. Uh, essentially, that means you'd need to reprogram the entirety of SC:BW, which was done with an entirely professional (and excellent) video game company, AKA Blizzard. I mean, it's doable, and good luck, it just seems a little bit more difficult than what you had in mind. | ||
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jyim89
United States33 Posts
On September 11 2010 04:41 DeckOneBell wrote: Uh, essentially, that means you'd need to reprogram the entirety of SC:BW, which was done with an entirely professional (and excellent) video game company, AKA Blizzard. I mean, it's doable, and good luck, it just seems a little bit more difficult than what you had in mind. I don't plan on creating the whole thing. I've built games before so I know what kind of insane work was put into SC BW. I am sure that if a small team was able to achieve the real basics of the game play (even just creating buildings and units) it would attract a lot of people into this project. You never know what will come out of the other end when u open source things. | ||
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paper
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On August 30 2006 13:23 WhizKid77 wrote: what would be awesome in addition to liquibet is like...a starcraft web turn based game. players can challenge other players, have a rate of mining (per day/hour,etc), start building stuff, etc. and battle it out i'm a web dev by trade, lemme know if anyone is interested! =P On August 30 2006 18:19 NewbSaibot wrote: could you make it graphical? And run in full screen? With the ability to scroll in any direction? With moving icons and units, that you can click on, and hear them say witty comments like "sho nuff!", and assign them to do things like gather minerals, or bind them all to a single key and make them attack other units? And have like an online chat system/meeting place, like a battle zone, or fight net, or something, so we could chat and then initiate games against each other? Even save in-game videos of our battles to show other people? I'd play that. | ||
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Tabbris
Bangladesh2839 Posts
i remember that but this is completely different | ||
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jyim89
United States33 Posts
On September 11 2010 04:49 Tabbris wrote: i remember that but this is completely different The NewbSaibot guy has the right idea though. lol | ||
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ven
Germany332 Posts
It's pretty raw though and plays quite differently. Makes you appreciate how amazing the original games really are. | ||
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jyim89
United States33 Posts
On September 11 2010 05:43 ven wrote: There was a free/open source version of Warcraft 2 and Starcraft that could even load the graphical assets from the original CDs. Was called Freecraft back then, now it's called Stratagus or Wargus and Stargus for the respective games. It's pretty raw though and plays quite differently. Makes you appreciate how amazing the original games really are. sounds interesting. i shall look into it. | ||
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jyim89
United States33 Posts
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