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Re: Show HN: HTML5 version of StarCraft

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Post by erkkie »

Kiro wrote: post #32
Tomte wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Great. Blizzard won't care. But if you like living a risky life, go on. (And yes, I'm blown away by what you have achieved there)

He's not from the US so what exactly is he risking here apart from the repo being taken down?

Please never take "not from the US so what" as a credible form of protection against any US actor, be it corporate or govermental.

There's many ways someone can still screw you, starting from making your travel to the US tricky to much worse, depending on the circumstances and what international agreements allow.

Re: Show HN: HTML5 version of StarCraft

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Post by SXX »

andrepd wrote: post #68
SXX wrote: post #15

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Fact that you don't make money off it would work for almost any game developer, but not Blizzard. In past they take down several open source projects just because of their name or clean room reverse engineering. And you're basically pirating their game assets.

>Fact that you don't make money off it would work for almost any game developer It really wouldn't. I know it's fun to imagine Blizzard as an oppressive corporation overlord, but any developer in the world will take steps to protect their IP.

I have no doubt that any developer would send take down for illegal assets usage and there is nothing wrong about it. This where project creator gone wrong and hope he won't do anything like that in future.

Though Blizzard in particular aggressive towards open source projects that recreate their games and generate a lot more lawsuits than other game development company. It's just like that 'Candy Crush Saga vs Banner Saga' lawsuit. These guys had right to do that, but it's still looks awful.

PS: As example of company that nice to the community look at Rockstar Games. Even if they're not really do anything for modding community there is tons of hobby software projects created around GTA include custom multiplayer servers, editors and any kind of mods, So far no one ever get lawsuit threats for doing anything like that. Now check Blizzard with their pro-DRM and anti reverse engineering lawsuits.

Re: Show HN: HTML5 version of StarCraft

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Post by giancarlostoro »

gloomyson wrote: post #19
SXX wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fact that you don't make money off it would work for almost any game developer, but not Blizzard. In past they take down several open source projects just because of their name or clean room reverse engineering. And you're basically pirating their game assets.

Actually only the images and audios the same as Blizzard game, the js source code of game engine are totally different with that original one, maybe I can replace those sprite images with other ones, and it will run perfectly like another RTS

Depending on what you're trying to accomplish if you make an entire game engine from scratch that can open up the files from StarCraft (and you DON'T distribute them), I think you should be fine. Although this would raise the complexity of your project. One such project exists:

http://www.stratagus.org/ - A cross-platform RTS open source game engine. http://stargus.stratagus.com/index.html - A project built on top of the same engine that opens up all StarCraft original files.

Not sure how active this project is or how far it's gone, but it seems to me from what I've seen: If your project recreates the engine and you require the original files and don't redistribute them yourself, you shouldn't get in much trouble? IANAL

Re: Show HN: HTML5 version of StarCraft

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Post by hvidevold »

Good job gloomyson! I've been working on HTML5 version of Starcraft 2, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoPNrz2LUG0 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvhUteDp3o8 , and source is at https://github.com/emnh/rts . Only free assets are included in github repository submodule, same separation strategy as Stratagus.

Re: Show HN: HTML5 version of StarCraft

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Post by nadams »

Kiro wrote: post #32
Tomte wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Great. Blizzard won't care. But if you like living a risky life, go on. (And yes, I'm blown away by what you have achieved there)

He's not from the US so what exactly is he risking here apart from the repo being taken down?

Blizzard can send a DMCA takedown to github and github must ASAP take down the repo regardless of if there was actual copyright infringement. I've seen github developers send DMCA requests to take down other developers repos before...

Re: Show HN: HTML5 version of StarCraft

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Post by gloomyson »

thomasahle wrote: post #63

Amazing work! I put this in full screen, and at times, playing the 'Protect Athena' level, I even forgot it wasn't the real thing. Must have taken you a lot of tuning :)

I suggest you use cheat code "full recovery" or "power overwhelming" or "the gathering", or finish this level is mission impossible

Re: Show HN: HTML5 version of StarCraft

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Post by gloomyson »

S4M wrote: post #75

Is it just me, or it's the "gather" function to mine resources is not working? Really nice apart from that.

The "gather" function is just not added into game by now, the code is not done, you can use cheat "show me the money" to easily get resources as much as you want.
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