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Starcraft: Ashfall

189 points debo_ 20 hours ago 63 comments

johng 19 hours ago | parent

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

spicyusername 18 hours ago | parent

Ah, the music is so nostalgic. Really takes me back.

jmcdonald-ut 18 hours ago | parent

Great work on this, had a blast!

debo_ 18 hours ago | parent

I did not make this, for the record. I just found it.

tdhz77 18 hours ago | parent

Lots of fun! Wish StarCraft would come out every year

hirako2000 1 hour ago | parent

Too busy making the new StarCraft.

neko_ranger 18 hours ago | parent

Wow someone made the youtube ad game!

dxcqcv 17 hours ago | parent

cool, give me more

butlike 2 hours ago | parent

There's also pinball and an asteroids-like game if you click the "Arcade" button next to where it says "Ashfall Crossing"

gs17 1 hour ago | parent

A shame if they don't recreate the Lost Viking game from Wings of Liberty itself.

nafey 18 hours ago | parent

Is this AI generated? Pretty impressive if that is the case

blueblock 18 hours ago | parent

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.

datsci_est_2015 17 hours ago | parent

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.

NorthernGulch 8 hours ago | parent

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

no-name-here 18 hours ago | parent

I did not touch the controls at all, and I still won with zero losses on the first level - that does not inspire confidence.

coralreef 2 hours ago | parent

controls aren't important, upgrade/tech choices are

itishappy 20 minutes ago | parent

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.

buf 18 hours ago | parent

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

marvstazar 18 hours ago | parent

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

mastax 18 hours ago | parent

Game basically plays itself but fun nonetheless

croon 10 hours ago | parent

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 9 hours ago | parent

The satisfying pop of the zerglings alone make it fun for me.

kixpanganiban 17 hours ago | parent

Perfect, who needed to be productive anyways

dmix 17 hours ago | parent

Great game. It took me way too long to figure out I could use keyboard to control the positioning instead of mouse.

cyh555 16 hours ago | parent

so nice!

bulbar 13 hours ago | parent

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.

andai 2 hours ago | parent

It's like cookie clicker, with less clicking and more blood!

AngryData 2 hours ago | parent

Once you get high enough you can switch commanders which gives additional upgrades and active powers.

p2detar 48 minutes ago | parent

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.

karim79 9 hours ago | parent

Cool game, but isn't this going to make blizzard bring out the big guns?

lofaszvanitt 6 hours ago | parent

A mix of everything. Stolen from everywhere. We have AI, but people are still the bottleneck. They lack creativity and ideas :D. lol

noah640090 5 hours ago | parent

This was really fun!

butlike 2 hours ago | parent

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

debo_ 2 hours ago | parent

Ahhhh yeahhhh

andai 2 hours ago | parent

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!)

seattle_spring 2 hours ago | parent

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

theogravity 1 hour ago | parent

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

lgessler 1 hour ago | parent

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

jdw64 1 hour ago | parent

nice game

gbnwl 1 hour ago | parent

Reddit thread from about a month ago where creator introduced this: https://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/1wqdabw/i_made_t...

an0malous 1 hour ago | parent

I've been seeing a lot of Pokemon games recently as well, are companies just not enforcing their copyright/trademarks anymore?

larodi 1 hour ago | parent

they may well be busy surviving AI induced chain reactions letting lots of people out of work.

nilamo 1 hour ago | parent

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.

deadbabe 1 hour ago | parent

Couldn’t they just use AI to sue at scale? No one should be too small to go after now.

creakingstairs 1 hour ago | parent

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 58 minutes ago | parent

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

nilamo 22 minutes ago | parent

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.

lelanthran 41 minutes ago | parent

> 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 23 minutes ago | parent

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

syspec 6 minutes ago | parent

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.

ForHackernews 12 minutes ago | parent

It's a totally original creation laundered through LLM derivative works.

gigel82 1 hour ago | parent

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...

temp0826 1 hour ago | parent

This is the second (probably vibecoded?) game in the last few days that I've seen using blizzard ip (the other being d2survivors.lol)

lai 58 minutes ago | parent

So what's the meta?

Noe2097 46 minutes ago | parent

there is no meta but what we vibe

lai 23 minutes ago | parent

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.

jonenst 55 minutes ago | parent

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

j7ake 29 minutes ago | parent

Game crashes when trying to fuse units

smallmancontrov 27 minutes ago | parent

THE MERGING IS NOT COMPLETE

malfist 22 minutes ago | parent

You must build additional pylons

ReptileMan 18 minutes ago | parent

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

bigwheels 11 minutes ago | parent

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

The AI games mashups are starting to heat up.

theylieeasieral 10 minutes ago | parent

slop