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Posted by debo_ 20 hours ago

Starcraft: Ashfall(starcraft-shooter-2026.pages.dev)
209 points | 70 comments
ggnore7452 6 minutes ago|
Wow, thanks to whoever posted this! I made this game.

Like many, I was frustrated there's no new StarCraft coming till 2030, so I half-jokingly made the mini-game those mobile ads always promise and never deliver. Something you can play with one hand, that your friends who've never played StarCraft can just pick up.(Turns out you can squeeze a lot of extra gameplay/design on top of it.)

Also, if you're going to copy Blizzard you might as well copy the whole package right, so there's a CG trailer too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVDao71LC7A

Honestly didn't expect people to grind this. I designed the endgame to be layer 50 and thought ppl can get at most ~70 if they really try, and somehow there are people on the leaderboard past 100 (without cheating). That's StarCraft players for you.

gbnwl 2 hours ago||
Reddit thread from about a month ago where creator introduced this: https://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/1wqdabw/i_made_t...
neko_ranger 18 hours ago||
Wow someone made the youtube ad game!
butlike 3 hours ago||
There's also pinball and an asteroids-like game if you click the "Arcade" button next to where it says "Ashfall Crossing"
gs17 2 hours ago||
A shame if they don't recreate the Lost Viking game from Wings of Liberty itself.
dxcqcv 18 hours ago||
cool, give me more
sharkjacobs 2 minutes ago||
It's not a fun game, but it's cool anyway
bulbar 14 hours ago||
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.

p2detar 1 hour ago||
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.
nicce 21 minutes ago||
I got around 42. Protos commander felt stronger for the effort.
andai 3 hours ago|||
It's like cookie clicker, with less clicking and more blood!
AngryData 2 hours ago||
Once you get high enough you can switch commanders which gives additional upgrades and active powers.
an0malous 2 hours ago||
I've been seeing a lot of Pokemon games recently as well, are companies just not enforcing their copyright/trademarks anymore?
nilamo 2 hours ago||
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.
lelanthran 1 hour ago|||
> 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 54 minutes ago||
It's a legal issue, and the legal part has always been bullshit regardless of which specific label happens to apply.
syspec 37 minutes ago||
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.

sharkjacobs 3 minutes ago|||
> creators should be allowed to exert control over how their assets and brand are used

I hate to be glib, but no they shouldn't.

Creators should be allowed to create things and sell them. No one, whether the creator, or the company the creator worked for when they first created the thing, should be able to stop someone else from creating something.

59percentmore 16 minutes ago|||
>Copyright sucks, and Disney is bad etc, but how is using StarCraft and its assets in your random AI game okay?

Because it's cool.

Supermancho 4 minutes ago||
The number of conglomerates has, unsurprisingly, continued to shrink. It's long overdue for a rethink. Maybe if the US political system ever stabilizes, we might get to it in a hundred years. Until then Copyright sucks and Disney is bad.
deadbabe 1 hour ago||||
Couldn’t they just use AI to sue at scale? No one should be too small to go after now.
creakingstairs 1 hour ago|||
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 1 hour ago|||
Yeah the law firms just haven't caught up yet. But they will.
nilamo 53 minutes ago|||
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.
Legend2440 24 minutes ago|||
Law firms are cautious about AI tools, they got burned a couple years ago by hallucinated citations.

Citing made-up cases sure looks like lying to the court, which is a punishable offense. Lawyers have been sanctioned, fined, and in one case received a 30-day license suspension.

throwaway613746 1 hour ago|||
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ForHackernews 43 minutes ago|||
It's a totally original creation laundered through LLM derivative works.
larodi 2 hours ago||
they may well be busy surviving AI induced chain reactions letting lots of people out of work.
temp0826 1 hour ago||
This is the second (probably vibecoded?) game in the last few days that I've seen using blizzard ip (the other being d2survivors.lol)
mastax 18 hours ago||
Game basically plays itself but fun nonetheless
croon 10 hours ago||
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|||
The satisfying pop of the zerglings alone make it fun for me.
throwaway613746 1 hour ago||
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buf 18 hours ago||
Saw Starcraft, spent 30 minutes living the nostalgia playing this.
j7ake 1 hour ago|
Game crashes when trying to fuse units
smallmancontrov 58 minutes ago||
THE MERGING IS NOT COMPLETE
malfist 54 minutes ago||
You must build additional pylons
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