Be aware that using your "maps" (full games) on Warcraft 3: Reforged transfers your rights over them to Blizzard as per their ToS! Therefore, lets not run them there but instead make code to get your w3m/w3x games running on other engines.
This project has been in the planning stage for a long time, but may become an engine that runs JASS2, a language that is usually called JASS (which is actually the name of the first version of the language).
See the "JASS projects" sections below for more information.
JASS2 could be considered a substandard and deprecated language:
However, many full games are written in JASS2, though they are unfortunately called "maps" due to the way they were used in Warcraft III's online "Custom Maps" system. Some full games include:
- DoTA "Defense of the Ancients" and many DoTA clones and other tower
offense games.
- DoTA led to DoTA 2 and gameplay seems similar to early versions of League of Legends.
- Hardcore/survival games (games with detailed gameplay and character
and world attributes) such as:
- Bug Evolution
- Ice Troll Tribe Wars
- Real Life (and easier versions such as Real Life [for Morons]
- Spellcraft
- Hero arena games such as:
- OpenRPG and other large RPGs such as:
- Single-goal "party games" such as:
- Assassins
- Pyramid Escape (and other "Escape" games)
- Kodo Tag
- Missile War
- Wolves vs Sheep (and other "vs Sheep" games)
- Vampirism
- Tower Defense (and various variations, which seem to have spawned or popularized the tower defense genre itself).
- Many clone games, and others: Maps on Epic War sorted by rating
- war3structs "Python construct definitions for Warcraft III file formats"
- Includes a Lark-based parses for JASS: war3structs/plaintext/jass.py
- jass2 (MIT) "Jass2 interpreter for exercise purpose"
- w3xparser (Apache-2.0)
- MPQExtractor (MIT) https://github.com/Kanma/MPQExtractor
- pympq (BSD 2-Clause) https://github.com/eagleflo/mpyq
- python-mpq (MIT) https://github.com/jleclanche/python-mpq
"StormLib-based Python MPQ bindings"
- requires StormLib (MIT) https://github.com/ladislav-zezula/StormLib
- BananaMPQ (MIT) https://github.com/sgraf812/BananaMpq "Extracting WoW's geometry data reliably"
- https://github.com/chadkila/Blizzard-Hash-Map
- mpq-extract (MIT) https://github.com/doggan/mpq-extract
- pulls mech-mpq
- requires the C++ version of StormLib
- pulls mech-mpq
- ghost.js https://github.com/w3gh/ghost.js "Try to port Warcraft3 Game Host Ghost++ to js"
- Wc3MapWorker (MIT) "Wc3MapWorker is a npm package written in
TypeScript to enable you to export and import your wc3 map files data
easily via ts/js. Used only for the MPQ extraction and creation! If
you are looking to extract the content of the extracted files into
jason format use WC3MapTranslator instead."
- TypeScript
- Resolved license issue: rufreakde/Wc3MapWorker#1
- WC3MapTranslator (MIT) https://github.com/ChiefOfGxBxL/WC3MapTranslator
"WC3MapTranslator is a module to convert a JSON representation of
WarCraft III (.w3x) data to their war3map files, and vice-versa."
- Node.js
- TypeScript
- License issue: ChiefOfGxBxL/WC3MapTranslator#44
- ceres-mpq (MIT) https://github.com/ceres-wc3/ceres-mpq "A pure-rust implementation of an MPQ archive reader and builder"
(These projects have licenses that differ from MIT, so changing this project to match a different license may be the best way forward.)
- JASS Tools (sourceforge project)
https://sourceforge.net/projects/jass/ is a project that contains some
"tools for parsing and analyzing the JASS scripting language, which
used for scripting Maps and AI files in Blizzard Entertainment's (R)
Warcraft III (R)," notably:
- pjass (BSD 2-Clause)
https://sourceforge.net/projects/jass/files/a%20pjass/
"currently the best JASS syntax checker" according to
http://jass.sourceforge.net/ (October 26, 2005).
"To test this program:
pjass common.j common.ai Blizzard.j" And yet, pjass is also below.
- pjass (BSD 2-Clause)
https://sourceforge.net/projects/jass/files/a%20pjass/
"currently the best JASS syntax checker" according to
http://jass.sourceforge.net/ (October 26, 2005).
"To test this program:
- pjass (BSD 2-Clause) https://github.com/lep/pjass
"A lightweight and fast Jass2 parser for bison/yacc"
- This could be ported to Python and use PLY (Python Lex-Yacc).
- translations: pjass-chs
- PHP-MPQ (GPL-3.0) https://github.com/cipherxof/PHP-MPQ
- php-mpq (BSD 2-Clause) https://github.com/Rogiel/php-mpq
"A PHP library for MPQ reading"
- PHP
- Resolved license issue: Rogiel/php-mpq#1
(These projects may be too far from the design goals to become dependencies.)
- cjass2lua
- This translator does not allow inheritance, classes, structures,
scopes, modules, preprocessor directives, cJass
forloops, or macros ("Macroses are translated into global variables" [sic]). Also note that Lua array indices start at 1. - https://github.com/fullmetal-a/cjass2lua
- This translator does not allow inheritance, classes, structures,
scopes, modules, preprocessor directives, cJass
- c-jasshelper (ZLib/PNG license - OSI approved) https://sourceforge.net/projects/c-jasshelper/ "A proof of concept vJass compiler, vJass is an extension to the Jass syntax enabling a bunch of crazy things like libraries, structs and textmacros. Also adds the zinc scripting language." Compile vJass, a meta language (or something) for JASS.
- JASSEdit (GPLv2) https://sourceforge.net/projects/jassedit/ "JASSEdit is an editor for the WarCraft 3 WorldEdit Scripting Language JASS" with code completion (with function documentation), syntax highlighting, multiple script loading, and syntax checking.
- Blizzard-Hash-Map chadkila/Blizzard-Hash-Map#1
- war3mappreviewextractor-php https://github.com/an-zie/war3mappreviewextractor-php/issues/1
- PHP
- mpqtools limitedWish/mpqtools#1
"Inflate .mpq archives and convert .blp textures to ordinary format"
- C
- LangUMS fork of stormlib LangUMS/stormlib#1
- https://github.com/jleclanche/mpqt/tree/master/mpqt
- Python
- archived