Warhammer RvR History released

Today I'm releasing something I've been working on for awhile: a graph of Warhammer RvR History. Warhammer is a lot of fun in part because you have hours-long fights over control over territory. But there's been no place I know of to see the history of the fight, just how things currently stand. So I built a site to collect the history and graph it.

I hope pvphistory.com is a useful resource for Warhammer players, but I also hope it gives some outsiders a bit of insight into the fun and interesting RvR battles that take place constantly.

Between this and my Warcraft achievements project, I've gotten quite handy with taking data from MMOs and re-presenting it in ways that shed light on the games' dynamics. My next project should be to revisit my Warcraft data and put it online in a format that people can browse.

Comments

[Unglar]

Hi Flyv,

I tried to look at the site, but apparently IE isn't supported - is that me or a site issue?

Cheers,
Unglar

[Nelson]

Nope, it's not you: site doesn't work on IE. There should have been a message explaining it in place of the graph, let me know your IE version if not. Unfortunately IE doesn't support SVG.

[Chris Z]

I love it. I also spent a lot of time working on a visualization of gameplay but this one shows time vs enjoyment for single-player games. I wanted to do it in Ajax and scripting but I thought it was critical to add comments and descriptions so I was left with a flash implementation. Check it out though: http://howlongisthisgame.tumblr.com/

Strange how frequently graphs and gaming end up together. I can't tell if it is the nature of the medium or the people who play them.

[Nelson]

Hey, Chris, I like the site! Thanks for sharing it here. As for graphs and gaming, I'm content with the explanation that I'm just a big nerd. But nothing beats Eve Online. Not just graphs, spreadsheets!

[Wargrimnir]

I just ran across this site on google, very cool!

Link love incoming. =D

Cheers!

[Nelson]

Thanks for your comment, Wargrimnir. I'm on the verge of shutting the site down almost entirely. No one visits it, and I stopped playing Warhammer. I'll keep it online until it's a problem though.