Hello everyone,
I recently made a post in the Technical Projects sub-forum on a replay annotator I wrote. Feel free to check it out :D. In fact, please read that thread if you intend to read this one... Here's the link to it: https://ps-replay-annotator.herokuapp.com/.
Since I wrote it with DOU in mind, I thought I'd try and start an initiative of annotating DOU games.
Feel free to annotate games and post them.
Some things to note:
Format for annotations file:
NEW FEATURE: Adding annotations to an annotated game (suggested by Qwello :D)
The app now takes 'iwas-alt.github.io/ps_game_bank/' links for 'gameurl'
They stack!
Hopefully this project will receive support from the community :D. Please report bugs/suggest features in the technical projects thread.
I recently made a post in the Technical Projects sub-forum on a replay annotator I wrote. Feel free to check it out :D. In fact, please read that thread if you intend to read this one... Here's the link to it: https://ps-replay-annotator.herokuapp.com/.
Since I wrote it with DOU in mind, I thought I'd try and start an initiative of annotating DOU games.
In my personal experience of trying to improve at DOU, I felt that there was a lack of resources for learning how to pilot. For other tiers, the best piloting resources are generally found on YouTube (BKC, Blunder live-records smogon tour games, even 1v1 has consistent content creators etc). Doubles' niche is really squeezed out by VGC. IMO, DOU is also the most complex tier due to a larger decision tree each turn. Its harder to retroactively understand a move made as compared to Singles. (To explain what I mean: in one turn of singles, I might not know whether move a, move b, swap a or swap b is the best, but after seeing swap a, I can mostly reason out to myself why it was chosen. In doubles, there are way more options in the first place so its harder to understand decisions made.) Not everyone wants to become a YT star and sharing your YT video will always feel more like plugging than serving the community. Therefore, I think annotated games will serve as a premier piloting resource.
Some things to note:
- Comments can be critical but obviously don't be mean/rude.
- You can annotate tournament (preferable) or ladder games, but they should contain some learning value. A 6-0 sweep on low ladder is pointless.
- You can annotate your own games or someone else's games. I doubt anyone would object to having their games annotated (its fair use anyways) but obviously once again rule one.
- Don't feel like you're not good enough to submit annotations.
- Feel
freeencouraged to discuss the annotations posted in this thread. - There's a web app that handles everything. It has a few idiosyncrasies so please read below.
gameurl#https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen8doublesou-1242164885
annotator#iwayasu
nochat#1
notime#1
0#team preview (before leads)
0*# team preview (after leads)
1#turn 1 early
1*#turn 1 late
annotator#iwayasu
nochat#1
notime#1
0#team preview (before leads)
0*# team preview (after leads)
1#turn 1 early
1*#turn 1 late
Format for annotations file:
- gameurl: the url of the ps replay. CAUTION: get rid of any '/' at the back of it because the program uses the '<url>.json' version of the replay.
- nochat: 1 or 0, all chat and join and leave messages will be deleted from/left in the replay. Can be omitted, defaults to 1.
- notime: 1 or 0, all player time remaining messages will be deleted from/left in the replay. Can be omitted, defaults to 1.
- annotator: annotations show up as a chat message sent by 'ANNOTATION by <annotator>'. Can be omitted, defaults to 'unknown user'.
- # is used to break between turn number and annotation, so don't use it in the message body
- turn 0 refers to team preview
- annotations appear right after the turn counter
- an asterisk (*) behind the turn number makes the annotation appear late. It will instead appear right before the next turn's counter (see image).
- The program might throw an error if the input is bad, check you text file carefully for styling errors.
- write your annotations file on your computer with notepad or something.
- paste it in the big white box and click the only button on the page.
- Wait what could be a very long time (over 2 mins if you have bad internet).
- You'll probably see a GitHub 404 page.
- Change the number for '?ver=1' to any number. Its at the end of the url (e.g. iwas-alt.github.io/......6aa.html?ver=1). I know how dumb this sounds but basically this forces GitHub to update itself. It may take a few times just keep trying 2, 3, 4 etc (it should load by 4).
- You can now share the link. If you want to download it for safekeeping, just press ctrl+s or right click anywhere on the page and click save as. You'll get a html file.
NEW FEATURE: Adding annotations to an annotated game (suggested by Qwello :D)
The app now takes 'iwas-alt.github.io/ps_game_bank/' links for 'gameurl'
Hopefully this project will receive support from the community :D. Please report bugs/suggest features in the technical projects thread.
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