Warlocks game archives

[BioLogIn]

Unfortunately, Warlocks games are not stored for long time.

For years, nawglan was maintaining his own archive of games (parsed from Warlocks website), which featured thousands of games; but, unfortunately, it is not available to us as of now.

Hopefully, we fill find a way to recover some of the games one day. Until then, as a temporary measure and to provide at least some study materials to other players, I decided to upload my personal archive of almost 900 games I played between 2007 (when I was a complete noob) through 2008-2010 (when I was quite dominant) to 2011-2013 (when I was playing on and off). Feel free to download the archive here.

If you are reading this and happen to have a number of Warlocks games archived locally - please consider sharing those in this thread.

[tziporah]

We could probably rescue quite a few games from the way back machine.

[BioLogIn]

Yeah, I estimate that they have up to 5 thousand games (search for 'https://games.ravenblack.net/warlocks', filter by '&full=1'), numbered somewhere in range between 10000 and 50000; although a portion of those are "Battle does not exist" pages, so 5k is the top estimate. Backing up those is not something I am looking forward to doing manually, but it should be relatively easy to automate when we have resources for that. Not a priority to me, since Web Archive (hopefully) is not going anywhere anytime soon.

Also I still hope that nawglan will reply and will be willing to share the archive data he had - there was about 50 thousand games archived on his side. Or, maybe, someone at some moment downloaded the raw data from his archive (for science; as I should have done in retrospect) and will re-upload it.