Starcraft: Ashfall

"Not judging anyone here," then proceeds to list off every reason they are judging people who enjoy something they do not enjoy. Why is this always so predictable? "Not judging, but if you like this game you're a slack-jawed zombie who is wasting their life." Okay.

> got into programming

just sad for everyone who wants to sit there and remove hours of their life and attention for increasing shareholder value and moving bits in enterprise cloud environments

See it works both ways.

> just sad for everyone who wants to sit there and remove hours of their life and attention for sound pings and moving pixels

you mean the gamer public?

Wow, I'm not sure "not judging anyone here" is really working out that well ;), but different people live differently and have different needs & priorities.

Note that for a lot of people, a period of emotional regulation with repetitive, low-intensity activity is literally what the doctor ordered. If you're not one of those people, you may not fully understand or have the empathy, so take it on a rational level then. While ab-so-lutely any activity can be used and abused, I don't think this is a strictly black & white binary proposition. And as something built on a lark (presumably heavily AI assisted), it's kinda cool and quite a bit more sophisticated than it has ANY right to be :-). I'm also shocker there are not cease & desist letters yet :(

Meh, this is just the game you play in line while you're waiting for your coffee, it's not someone's life pursuit to be a hypno zombie.

Yes! Really nice to see people here at HN catch the Starship Troopers homage. These days many people's first reaction is Helldivers, which of course got that same tone from Starship Troopers too. And yes, the trailer was made with AI video tools.

The newest StarCraft trailer is also a homage to starship troopers.

And the Zerg design always was inspired by it for sure.

Brood War definitely took some inspiration from the movie.

Thank you so much for sharing it, really made my day!

The games are different than the video. They just don’t deliver that experience at all. In 2026 it does seem strange as the cost of production of graphic and code is less.

But when that trend started back in 2023 or so, the game in the video was much more expensive to produce that what you actually got to play.

The game they're advertising for has absolutely no relation/bearing to the ads. At all. The actual game is more like an Advanced Wars-meets-Civilization/Risk boardgame type microtransaction-bleed-you-dry type game, you have to build a base and if you don't login every ~6 hours then people can take over your base and you lose/die, unless you pay ~$45/mo (or whatever). There is no scrolling arcade element of any kind in the actual game. This guy's game is brilliant tho.

It ends up being a tiny portion of the game because it's hard to monetize.

The majority of the game will still be timer based buildings/armies (so you pay to speed up) and egregiously p2w pvp.

There was a youtube video that analyzed those game ads and I think they found that the games being shown in the ad are mini-games within the real game.

Supposedly the ads need to be based on some element of the game, so what they do is they make mini-games and use that as advertising material. It's all a tactic to get people to their actual game.

It's basically bait and switch.

Yes https://youtu.be/9eQUtOQXYgQ?t=183 But it's a shooter, not a RTS

Sort of. It's an FPS. I also highly doubt it will ever be released.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eQUtOQXYgQ

lol you think the main game wasn't AI generated? You're gonna have to be more specific with your feedback or get over yourself.

This was made less than a month ago, it was almost certainly vibe coded already.

this is clearly vibecoded though?

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

Has anyone ever downloaded Raid Shadow Legends?

Protoss, upgrade battle cruiser, follow Artanis.

A few colossus for anti small.

Tempests and archons for splash

Stack anti armor like immortal and tempest and upgrade anti big damage

Terran units: tanks and Thor.

Keep 40+ zealots at all times

Upgrade recursive self improvement, most wild card options like bigger unit size , upgrade units when offered bonus 10% damage.

Battlecruiser upgrade : slow, guard, barrier, everything defensive.

Stack spells so you can spam them when you hit lane 47

Never fuse units

Works pretty hands free, zealots never need to engage until Lane 47 or 48 when a screen full of zerglings ended the game for me.

Would love some forum where people discuss this more, maybe with experiments.

6 hours of play and i finally got to level 50.

wayyyy past my bedtime.

I got around 42. Protos commander felt stronger for the effort.

> 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.

> it's always been silly that it prevents derivitive works.

For example though, if you spend two years writing a novel and I change one word of it and sell it for half what you do, isn't that a problem?

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

When it comes to copyright, I am not so optimistic. When the AI bubble bursts, the usual corporate interests will resurface with a vengeance.

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Sometimes, yes, but this one is just straight-up calling itself "Starcraft" and using the original art and voice-lines.

AI cant build a game like this in 4 hours; it can help but you definitely need a bunch of back and forth to get a game as polished as this.

*construct !!

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.

Weird I thought the D2 one was genius. Genuinely a great game. You probably didn’t spend more than a minute before dismissing it. It looks much better on a big screen too.