BroodWar on browser - Page 5

On November 29 2012 12:56 Franthier wrote:

I remember very clearly that Chris Sigaty tried so hard with his team to emulate muta stacking in SC2, they simply cannot do it because of a different game engine.

Everything is easier said than done, people should know that.

On September 10 2015 00:54 Roblin wrote:

thats the interesting paradox of computers.

things humans consider easy is often extremely hard for computers and vice versa.

for example, if you tried to ask a computer: does this picture have a bird in it?
the computer would be super confused (it would have a hard time understanding the concept of a bird, even if you tried to teach it) but a human wouldn't have an issue.

if you asked a computer what the optimal route from address A to address B is, taking into account traffic conditions and weather, the computer would readily present you the answer approximately 2 seconds later (depending on computer prestanda) whereas a human would have to figure out where those addresses even are.

if you asked a computer what the proper english translation is for the swedish tounge twister:
"far, får får får? nej min son, får får inte får, får får lamm"
it would give you:
"father, will be getting? no, my son , may not get the sheep, sheep , lambs"
whereas a human will tell you the proper translation is:
"father, do sheep get sheep? no my son, sheep do not get sheep, sheep get lambs"

On December 04 2012 14:41 adityars wrote:

I just saw this discussion... I ported Command and Conquer - Tiberian Dawn to HTML5, without access to the source code...

It has a working multiplayer with websockets... ( It uses a central server like SC2 instead of a P2P model)

I handle all the game data by using lazy loading.. I only load the images for the units/level as I need them...

Most people have reported that it translates well to the web and has reasonable performance....

You can play the game here.... Play C&C HTML5...

I considered porting SC1 to HTML5 as well... I think I could port a decent version within a couple of months with my existing HTML5 RTS engine, if I had access to game sprites and images....

Unfortunately, unlike C&C, there isn't easy access to the game/image data... If you know of any source, let me know and I would be glad to give it a shot.. I love SC...

On September 12 2015 04:08 ninazerg wrote:


Hahaha, this is awesome! I love how everyone who has zero knowledge of html5 is like "No, it's not possible."