Show HN: New Starcraft 2 Builds Website

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Post by Reltair » Fri, Mar 01, 2013, 6:51 PM UTC

Show HN: New Starcraft 2 Builds Website
sc2builds.com

Re: Show HN: New Starcraft 2 Builds Website

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Post by Reltair » Fri, Mar 01, 2013, 6:57 PM UTC

Hi, we built a Rails site for creating and finding Starcraft 2 build orders.

Any feedback will be greatly appreciated. Some upcoming features include a commenting system and build rankings.

We're also interested in what the community thinks about growing traffic for a niche site like this, thanks!

Re: Show HN: New Starcraft 2 Builds Website

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Post by colmvp » Fri, Mar 01, 2013, 7:17 PM UTC

Is it technically possible to upload a replay and process it to automatically find out the timings?

Re: Show HN: New Starcraft 2 Builds Website

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Post by HNaTTY » Fri, Mar 01, 2013, 7:24 PM UTC

Reltair wrote: post #2

Hi, we built a Rails site for creating and finding Starcraft 2 build orders. Any feedback will be greatly appreciated. Some upcoming features include a commenting system and build rankings. We're also interested in what the community thinks about growing traffic for a niche site like this, thanks!

Does it support HOTS or is it WOL-only? Can I filter one or the other?

Re: Show HN: New Starcraft 2 Builds Website

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Post by Reltair » Fri, Mar 01, 2013, 7:59 PM UTC

HNaTTY wrote: post #4

Reltair wrote: post #2

Hi, we built a Rails site for creating and finding Starcraft 2 build orders. Any feedback will be greatly appreciated. Some upcoming features include a commenting system and build rankings. We're also interested in what the community thinks about growing traffic for a niche site like this, thanks!

Does it support HOTS or is it WOL-only? Can I filter one or the other?

It currently has all the new units/buildings/upgrades from HotS already, but there's no way to tag a build as WoL or HotS. We can add in this capability fairly easily.

I guess this would be useful if there's a significant amount of people still playing WoL even after HotS is released.

Re: Show HN: New Starcraft 2 Builds Website

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Post by Reltair » Fri, Mar 01, 2013, 8:03 PM UTC

colmvp wrote: post #3

Is it technically possible to upload a replay and process it to automatically find out the timings?

I actually thought about this a while back when I saw the Build Order tab displayed after a match that shows each player's build order up to around 30-40 supply. This technically should be possible since a replay has all the data for that, but I haven't looked into it more yet.

Re: Show HN: New Starcraft 2 Builds Website

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Post by rartichoke » Fri, Mar 01, 2013, 9:04 PM UTC

Reltair wrote: post #6

colmvp wrote: post #3

Is it technically possible to upload a replay and process it to automatically find out the timings?

I actually thought about this a while back when I saw the Build Order tab displayed after a match that shows each player's build order up to around 30-40 supply. This technically should be possible since a replay has all the data for that, but I haven't looked into it more yet.

I remember a while back I saw someone worked on a tool that converted a replay to a video. It wasn't 100% accurate but it worked.

Re: Show HN: New Starcraft 2 Builds Website

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Post by kken » Fri, Mar 01, 2013, 10:01 PM UTC

Nice, but it's rather rudimentary right now. I think you should work more on visualization.

* how about generating graphs for resource availability vs. time? (minerals, gas, units) That would help greatly in verifying the correctness of the build order.

* Add links to youtube videos showing the build?

* Clean up the tables with proper tabs

* Show unit inventory vs. time

* Add more bling