RTS + map editor in the web - need your help!

[hellochar]

Hi guys, been a while and not really sure where to post this, but here goes:

I LOVED the huge variety of games available in WC3. It was this melting pot where anyone could contribute their own ideas to any map, put it up on Blizzard's servers, and get immediate feedback from strangers actually playing it. No where else are games like sheep tag, run kitty run, footie wars available to play. I miss playing them dearly. My goal is to recreate this environment through the web browser.

For one of my classes in college we are building a large, semester long software project of our choosing - and I'm taking this opportunity to do something I've always wanted to do: recreate the WC3 custom map gaming environment in the browser (aka in Chrome or Firefox).

This is where you come in: my team needs to stay in contact (until about mid-April I think) with people who might use the website to make and play games. You would give us feedback about our prototypes and designs, as well as input for which features and ideas are most important. You'd be testing the whole system for playing and making games - not just playtesting the game itself. Let me know if you’re interested. Thanks!

 

[Dr Super Good]

There is no way you will create anything near the level of WarCraft III in that time. Combined with the slowness in browers, you will be lucky to recreate anything near the SC1 level of modding (which was the foundations for WC3).

 

[Wazzz]

this does seem somewhat over-ambitious, but i would have said so for other reasons. you're asking hiveworkshop members to co-operate. that rarely happens.