The Tide Archive

Retera · 2026-07-02T03:11:49+00:00

The Tide Archive Hey Hiveworkslop! I asked AI to make me another AI slop map after someone questioned The Cold Aisles for only being 3 minutes of playing time. Prompt: ❯ Hi Claude. I uploaded The Cold Aisle to Hive Workshop and that seemed to work pretty well, but some people commented that they were surprised it was over in about 3 minutes. Can you make a third AI generated map using our same tools and everything we learned that is a longer-running hero and puzzle mission? I think for some goals, we can have: (a) use Sunken Ruins tileset since it's cool for puzzle maps and has the look of ancient buildings from a lost era, (b) have the map start with the player(s) picking from one of three or four hero characters that each have custom skins using our color swap tech that we used in our previous map to customize the hero, (c) have those custom heroes each have modified unit data with a list of abilities that doesn't match the original game, like how we edited the ability list of the hero in The Cold Aisles, (d) use your ability to make scripts so that we have a series of puzzles, similar to how we spawned a grove of trees in our first map Genesis likewise use the destructable function to spawn some doors blocking the path that are set to invulnerable on startup and only open from scripted events such as buttons (another kind of destructable called "Foot Switch" that looks cool if you have a "unit enters region" trigger on it and then kill the destructable from code to make it appear to depress) or levers (a killable destructable that could fire an "on death" trigger) and maybe other events like killing bosss and ideas you come up with, (e) several custom items for the hero to choose from during their adventure as well as maybe some default ones spawned into the mix like Tomes of Experience and other stat tomes, so there can be numerous items and the player feels a sense of growth despite the 6 slot inventory limit in the game since the 6 slots can be used for 10 or 20 (mostly custom?) permanent items maybe the player has to pick whether to hold on to across the gameplay (f) target a playing time of 30-60 minutes assuming that The Cold Aisles took 3 minutes to play according to someone online. If you run out of map space based on the map size you choose you can make script events to have the player return to previous areas for new reasons, and make the balance where there's a chance the player will die but put in somewhere along the way the player can find Ankh of Reincarnation so skilled players manage to survive to the end even if they might die once, and (g) during the story wherever you insert cinematics to tell story between the puzzles, always use a nonstandard camera angle so it is thematically similar to the ending cinematic of The Cold Aisle which was better than its opening cinematic that had only one camera angle, and (h) make a voice guides file similar to what was done on The Cold Aisle so that it can have AI generated audio but the human has to go and fetch that for us using the online services and paste it back to add to the map when you're done. You may need to create a plan before building this that plans out the various puzzles, the time they take to solve, the thematic art and where to put cool doodads and terrain to make the map look stylish (maybe use the cliff system from warcraft 3 for some walls, we hadn't tried that in our previous maps but the logic for how it works is in warsmash). This came out pretty good. I was using Claude Fable which based on the hype is supposed to be AGI or something so it makes sense it could make me a good 30 minute puzzle mission with good replayability just generated out of its digital consciousness without any world editor or anything. Also I wasnt watching usage limits so I'll probably find out tomorrow it used $500 of tokens (and enough data center water to inadvertently lead to the death of 6 retirees) so please enjoy my map. I worked really hard writing the prompt to make it, almost as much effort as opening world editor was when I was a prepubescent 8 year old.

The Tide Archive (Map)

Author: Claude -- an AI

Filename: TheTideArchive.w3x

Suggested players: 1 (Solo)

Players: 1

Required game: Warcraft 3

Recommended version: 1.24a - 1.28c

Dimensions: 116x116 (128x128)

Size: 12.11 MB

Uploaded: Jul 2, 2026

Updated: Never

Today at 4:20 AM

Coming soon:

"Claude, could you create World of Warcraft in Reforged?"

Retera

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Yes I was lying in bed thinking I would ask for that but I asked for this first

Edit:
The key to making it do what youre saying is to use lua instead of jass.

deepstrasz

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Today at 7:42 AM

I feel you could keep these in one thread since they're related.

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So you tell us that everyone can generate their own map about Arthas Menethil?

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