Warcraft Remake

WIP games, tools & toy projects
#1

Hey there,

Some people eared about my remake of Lionheart, and my LionEngine (a java game engine).
Now, its time for a RTS game, with this remake of the great Warcraft, from Blizzard (1994).

I made this project in order to improve my engine, by adding an RTS abstraction.
This way, strategy games are easy to develop (at least, it should… :p)

At this time, the game is playable, as a demo, including two maps, two races (Orcs & Humans), some units (Peon/Paysan, Grunt/Footman, Spearman/Archer, and their buildings TownHall, Farm, Barracks, Lumbermill).
It is possible to play against a computer.

Project page (source code is available):

Applet game

Here some screens:

http://www.b3dgs.com/v6/projects/warcraft_remake/screens/9.png

http://www.b3dgs.com/v6/projects/warcraft_remake/screens/6.png

http://www.b3dgs.com/v6/projects/warcraft_remake/screens/1.png

http://www.b3dgs.com/v6/projects/warcraft_remake/screens/3.png

#2

Be careful, Blizzard had FreeCraft shut down after it gained popularity.

But I would love a way to play it on Linux, so good job ;D

#3

oh nice, that looks damn cool. Now gimme a playable Applet/JWS version :slight_smile:

#4

Looks awesome :slight_smile:

Kev

#5

Nice, I’d love to play me some early Warcraft.

From a business/legal perspective, making a clone game (inspired by an earlier title) is one thing, but straight copying it is probably not something Blizzard will appreciate. I am not a lawyer, but you should especially avoid using their trademarks to promote your product.

#6

Cant wait to try it! :slight_smile:

#7

Its depends of the point of view.
Blizzard logo is explicit because I used old stuff from them.
It is as a respect (instead of removing every © !)

But yes, I know that the deadline may be closer than what I hope… ;D
We will see…

Anyway, thanks everybody for your comments :wink:

#8

I see what you were going for now. Again, IANAL, but maybe something more like “A tribute to Blizzard’s classic WarCraft” to make it clearer. In any case, I hope it sticks around, because I want to give it a try.

#9

Looks really nice, I was a big fan of Warcraft 1, I also want to play your remake :smiley:

#10

Blizzard is notoriously zealous about guarding their IP. Only way to be safe is don’t use any of their assets or any of their names, and don’t put “craft” in the name. No, they don’t necessarily have a case as far as owning a suffix, but their lawyers are Level 85 elite mobs.

A straight up remake is just begging blizzard to go after you.

#11

Hey, just a quick message to announce you that Warcraft Remake is now playable directly from your browser:
http://www.b3dgs.com/v5/projects/warcraft_remake/game/index.html

Keys:

  • Mouse + Arrows key to move and control
  • TAB to display debug
  • CTRL to handle/release mouse
  • ESCAPE to exit at any time

Compatible with Java 6+

#12

Ah, shucks - Firefox reports “Start: applet not initialized” in the status bar. Other applets seem ok, but I’m just getting a 640x400 gray rectangle. (I haven’t tried the download version since your earlier release.)

Just wanted to let you know… I’m eager to play me some classic Warcraft.

#13

Ah, I’m sure you are using IcedTea plugin with Linux, right ?

Check this: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AMD64/FirefoxAndPlugins

You have to use the sun-java6 instead… I don’t know how to make it work with IcedTea !
Else, try to download the full zip, it should work fine (else the problem is from me).

#14

Ha - good call! I’ve got all varieties of sun/oracle/openjdk runtimes that I test on, but Firefox has the IcedTea plugin (ala Ubuntu). Thanks for the tip.

#15

So, is it working now ? ;D

#16

The download runs well. Sorry, I don’t have time to tinker with my plugin settings to diagnose IcedTea right now. (… and I’m trying to avoid playing because I know that would be my evening / week …)

#17

Browser version.
Just crashes after title screen.
Java console disappears too
Opera and Firefox, windows 7, java 6 installed

#18

Can you give me the content of the file: log.txt ?
You can find it in this path: C:\Users"NAME"\AppData\Local\Temp\warcraft_remake\

Thanks in advance !

#19

sure.
but it appears to be 0 kb

#20

It runs for me. I must say, amazing job. Quite addicting :slight_smile: