While I was working on converting LibWowAPI to use the new Blizzard WoW API, I came up with an idea that, I think, is pretty good.
Cheevos FTW! is a new website that I've created that allows a World of Warcraft player to figure out what achievements to shoot for next. It works by crawling through the WoW API, reading a character's achievements, guilds, and arena teams. The achievements are stored in a database while guilds and arena teams look for more characters to crawl. Guild achievements are similarly stored. Every so often, the achievements are analyzed and sorted by how many players have accomplished the achievement.
When a player enters their realm and character name into the website, it takes the sorted achievements and removes all of the achievements the character has accomplished, and spits out the top 10 remaining achievements from the sorted list. This effectively gives a list of recommended achievements the character should go for next, based on what achievements other characters have already done. The same happens for the guild's achievements.
The site is a very simple concept, but is very data heavy. Already, before the site even has gone live, I've crawled over 70,000 players who have accomplished over 13,000,000 achievements! Within a couple days, this database will have more records than my logs site.
This was a fun, quick site to put together. I have no idea how big it will get, but it will be fun to see how it gets used by the WoW community.
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Yeah, it's season 11. But the OTL Season 6 highlight reel is up, this time Fireball has taken the reins! Check out this video jam packed full of kills, deaths, silliness, and Sirius puns. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXstLVjnaGo
Bing is so bad. https://otl.gg is being blocked in their search results, and Bing webmaster tools are absolutely useless, not telling me why it's being blocked.
Does anyone know of some way to get a human to look at this and see what's wrong with it? #bing#microsoft
Me and my wife, despite buying a house of nice size, always seem to get in each other's way, be it in the kitchen, on the stairs, it doesn't matter. She's all up in my two square feet.
I often joke that all I want for Christmas is my two square feet.
I got the honor and privilege of calling the NES Tetris NTSC world record today while running Classic Tetris Wars on my Twitch channel for the very first time. It was thrilling. Congratulations to Blue Scuti for his 6,609,220 level 153 performance. https://clips.twitch.tv/DiligentDeadGoldfishDoritosChip-cx_vDMWAjKaZUK6N
Six Degrees of Sunday, my 6DoF long play Twitch series, is getting revived for 2024. Plus, I will be producing Six'd Off, a companion YouTube series showcasing each game.
@shanselman Speaking of Overload, here's something you may be interested in... recently, some community members released "Overload First Strike", a single player Overload campaign that is a complete remake of the original Descent First Strike campaign.
It can work with just the original game, but it works best with "olmod" as it takes advantage of some of the features it provides: https://olmod.overloadmaps.com