fireplace VS Zusam

I wrote a hearthstone simulator when the game came out.

https://github.com/jleclanche/fireplace

It was used and referenced by a few scientific papers and phds since. It’s my little pride, even though it would really need a rewrite at this point to work properly with all the additions in the game.

It contains its own little python driven dsl for actions. I could talk about it for hours. All that work led to me starting a company around hearthstone (I have since left it behind but it eventually grew into other games).

It was three years ago - back when Hearthstone was decent. I remember being a lot into it - played, watched and read everything there was. Basically I spent most of my time on twitch.tv hearthpwn.com hsreplay.net reddit.com/r/hearthstone and of course playhearthstone.com. I even wanted to write a Hearthstone AI so I've also read a lot of stuff by hearthsim.info guys (especially jleclanche - he's great!). I watched dogdog and played the craziest, funniest and most challenging thing at the time - APM (Action Per Minute) Priest.

I am only familiar with how an open source clone of hearthstone (https://github.com/jleclanche/fireplace) works since I built an evolutionary algorithm to beat the puzzle challenges, so I will speak to how I imagine MTGA implements their cards and rule engine.

But I didn't like the fact that it was tied to facebook. I decided to put into practice what I've learned that year at my informatics school and created forum written in php. It was not much but we liked the fact that it was ours.

Ten years later, I'm still fiddling on it and it has grown to a real open-source project that you can find on github [0]. It's still primarly here to serve me since I'm the only maintainer but starts to be driven by external propositions. It's meant to be easy to deploy, easy to use, cheap in resources and reliable.

[0] https://github.com/zusam/zusam

Would Zusam work?

You could also add a link to the project and not just your blog: https://github.com/zusam/zusam

Github Repo

I actually came across Zusam which does video processing to some extent, so I'm thinking I'll take a closer look at that and see whether it does any downsizing or at least embeds it (all the forums I've tried so far just attach a video as a file attachment, and you download to view).