Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to After 3 years of coding I made a StarCraft BroodWar 2.5D Online Viewer
Hello HN, I'm excited to introduce my hobby project https://www.blacksheepwall.tv. It's a unique way to watch StarCraft replays. I have an announcement video on youtube https://youtu.be/pHkWn7E0I_Y You will still need a local server component to serve install files to your browser but otherwise its all hosted online. It's built on top of OpenBW which is an open source re-implementation of the SC1 engine. It features elevated terrain, plugins, macros, 3d models ( user provided ), all of it has been a joy to work on and a great for learning and sharpening the saw.…
After 3 years of development, this project is an online viewer for StarCraft: BroodWar replays that renders the game in 2.5D using WebGL and Three.js. Built on OpenBW, an open-source engine recreation, it supports… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. After 3 years of coding I made a StarCraft BroodWar 2.5D Online Viewer launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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2012 · ggreplayz.com · its alternatives →
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Been having a lot of fun reading an SC2Replay collection through nom parsers, serializing into Arrow files so that pola.rs can read them and perform data analysis with jupyter lab, plotly or interact with SQL operations, etc. Looking for feedback and ideas on what to progress on. For example, "through history, are my timings getting better?". etc. Also would love to have ideas on what libraries to use to perform forecasting.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! We’re a small creative studio specializing in real-time 3D experiences. Netlify approached us to design and build an interactive experience to celebrate reaching 5 million developers. Inspired by the classic game Marble Madness, we created a gamified experience where users control a ball through playful, interactive levels. The goal was to blend marketing content with the look and feel of a game to engage users. The app is built with Three.js [1], using our custom render pipeline and shaders, and uses Rapier for physics simulation [2]. The 2D content is overlaid on the WebGL view…
2024 · 5-million-devs.netlify.com · its alternatives →
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I've posted this game here before, hopefully a repost is fine as the game has changed quite a bit (improved AI, improved mapeditor, much quicker gameplay, etc). Game is based on JavaScript/Canvas and WebSockets. On the browser side the map is pre-rendered (as a background image), just the mobile units/buildings and animations are dynamically rendered. The lobby server is made in node.js, but the game server is C++ for performance reasons (mainly the pathfinding). I found the C++ WebSocket libraries out there to be too difficult to use so I made my own based on the rfc. Overall I…
2022 · battle-of-flags.com · its alternatives →
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I wasn't quite sure if this qualified as "Show HN" given you can't really download it and try it out. However, dang said[0]: > If it's hardware or something that's not so easy to try out over the internet, find a different way to show how it actually works—a video, for example, or a detailed post with photos. Hopefully I did that? Additionally, I've put code and a detailed guide for the netboot computer management setup on GitHub: https://github.com/kentonv/lanparty Anyway, if this shouldn't have been Show HN, I apologize! [0]…
2024 · lanparty.house · its alternatives →
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Real Time Strategy. Contribute to emnh/rts development by creating an account on GitHub.
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I recently noticed a recurring visual artifact in the "Most Replayed" heatmap on the YouTube player. The highest peaks were always surrounded by two dips. I got curious about why they were there, so I decided to reverse engineer the feature to find out. This post documents the deep dive. It starts with a system design recreation, reverse engineering the rendering code, and ends with the mathematics. This is also my first attempt at writing an interactive article. I would love to hear your thoughts on the investigation and the format.
Jan 2026 · priyavr.at · its alternatives →
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Starcraft▲62The best sci-fi real-time strategy video game of all time
2014 · starcraft.blizzard.com · its alternatives →
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A few months ago (82 days to be exact!) I posted a link on HN to my game, Meatshields. A bunch of you commented and played my game and gave me some wonderful feedback. Over the last few months I've been playing with many of you and implementing the best of everybody's suggestions. So, thank you, HN for all your help! I feel this is an extreme overhaul I couldn't have done without your input. Since then, I have: Dramatically improved our hosting platform (So it HOPEFULLY won't go down this time (oops.)), Added two new units, Rebalanced all existing units, Added many more maps, Improved the…
2017 · its alternatives →
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A simple browser RTS game. Defend your base. Capture flags.
2018 · its alternatives →
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WebGL Multiplayer game with NodeJS backend. Contribute to Lallassu/wizardwarz development by creating an account on GitHub.
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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3rd Installment of the Starcraft 2 Franchise
2015 · starcraft2.blizzard.com · its alternatives →
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2013 · skycraft.io · its alternatives →
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This experiment has ended. Thanks for being part of it!
2015 · verizoncraft.github.io · its alternatives →
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👾 The code for my Three.js game dev experiments on YouTube. - SuboptimalEng/three-js-games
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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play StarCraft game on your browser.
2020 · steelsoft.site · its alternatives →
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Hi everyone, I made this app Demo Scope lets you record or stream any mobile website with your face on screen and touch indicators showing every tap. I built it because I needed to demo my own side projects and hated the OBS/desktop setup. Load your site in the app, hit record, done. Or stream straight to Twitch/YouTube. Free to try: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/demo-scope/id6755395174 Would love feedback if anyone tries it. I made a landing site centered around mobile demos for professional projects, but my main use case honestly has been Twitch…
Dec 2025 · demoscope.app · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I'm one of the founders of s2.dev. RePlaya (https://github.com/s2-streamstore/replaya) is a self-hosted browser session replay tool using rrweb (https://github.com/rrweb-io/rrweb). It occurred to me that a durable stream per session would be a much neater architectural foundation for much of what you'd want from such a tool. As a unique feature, it also made live tailing straightforward because the player can read from the same stream the recorder is appending to. The alternative architecture is likely an ingest firehose which is then indexed,…
Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2015 · voxlords.webgl.nu · its alternatives →
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Since 2009, coders have created thousands of amazing experiments using Chrome, Android, AI, WebVR, AR and more. We're showcasing projects here, along with helpful tools and resources, to inspire others to create new experiments.
2015 · chromeexperiments.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, OpenReplay — the self-hosted session replay tool that helps developers troubleshoot web apps faster — now supports recording the element. What’s New? - Canvas Support: Easily reproduce bugs by replaying complex graphics and animations. - Co-browse via P2P: Co-browse with users while streaming canvas elements in real-time, and identify issues and frustrations as they happen. - Customize Recordings: Customize FPS and quality of canvas in session replay, for optimal network usage and replay detail. Why it matters? - Gain deep insights into graphics-intensive parts of web applications,…
2024 · its alternatives →
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