Release 1.0.0 · tibbots/battledeck

First public release.

Accounts

One row per Battle.net account and region, because rank, heroes and currencies differ
between them — the same battletag can be Platinum in Europe and Bronze in the Americas.
Filters for name, game, hero and region; the region filter switches between the rows of one
account rather than hiding them.
Stored login credentials, with one click to copy e-mail or password.
Archiving instead of deleting. An account moves out of the list and can come back; there is no
delete button, so one misclick in a list of look-alike rows cannot be the last step.
Per-account game flags for Heroes of the Storm, Overwatch, World of Warcraft and Diablo. A game
with nothing known about it says so instead of showing zeroes.

Heroes of the Storm

Start the game for an account: the app launches it, selects the region of that row and types the
credentials. All three regions, and the setting is applied on every start because the game
forgets it.
Read the account off the game screen — Storm League rank and division, pending placement matches,
account level, owned heroes, gold, shards, gems and unopened loot chests — and write it into the
record of the region signed in to. A field that could not be read is left alone rather than
overwritten with a guess.
Open all unopened loot chests before reading, so the numbers that follow are the ones after
opening.
Free hero rotation from a yearly calendar shipped with the app. Nothing to fetch, nothing to
maintain.
Leaver penalty counter per account, adjustable by hand and read out of the game with everything
else.

Reading the game

Text recognition through Windows.Media.Ocr, matched against the vocabulary of five client text
languages: Deutsch, English (US), Français, Español (ES), Español (AL). Which one the
client runs is a setting; a mismatch means nothing is read, and nothing is then written.
Anchors instead of coordinates, scaled by the window height. Measured at 3440 × 1440,
2560 × 1080 and 1920 × 1080; any width at those heights behaves identically. Windowed and
borderless fullscreen both work, Remote Desktop does not.
Automatic discovery of the Heroes of the Storm installation, plus a scan across all drives for
the unusual case.

The application itself

Four UI languages — German, English, French, Spanish — switchable without a restart, and
independent of the client language.
Everything in %USERPROFILE%\.smurftown, data.yaml as the account list. No account, no
telemetry.
A copy of every YAML file into backups/{version}/ before the first run of a new version
migrates anything.
A daily check against api.github.com for a newer release — anonymous, carrying nothing about
the human or their accounts, and the only request this application makes. It can install the
release itself, verifying it against the published SHA-256 first; where it may not replace its
own file, it opens the release page and says why.

Passwords are stored in plain text. That is what makes copying and typing them possible, and
it is the deliberate trade this application makes. The folder is a password store and wants
treating like one.
Nothing is signed. SmartScreen warns on the download, and the honest answer is More info →
Run anyway — the checksum shipped with each release proves that the file matches the release,
not who built it.

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