OutThisLife / azeroth-survivors-re

# Azeroth Survivors
**A free fan-made WoW roguelike by Aethus, run locally on a
from-scratch WoW 1.12.1 client engine (Rust + Bevy).**
> **Not an original project.** *Azeroth Survivors* is a free, fan-made WoW roguelike by
> **Aethus** — play the original in the browser at **wow.aethus.pl**
> (r/wowservers announcement
> · Discord). This repository is a from-source local build of the
> game, running on the benilla / wenilla engine, for personal use.
Pick a class and a battleground, then survive: WASD to move, your abilities cast themselves,
enemies swarm in waves, you level up and pick upgrades, and a boss shows up every couple of
minutes. **No server, no login, no account** — fully offline and self-contained.
### In this build
- **A character-create pick screen** built from the client's own glue art: eight races, both
 genders, every class the race can be, and **sixteen zones**, from the starting zones to
 Naxxramas and the Gates of Ahn'Qiraj. Each zone fights with its own creatures and bosses, taken
 from the zone's real spawns. Your pick is remembered across reloads.
- **Level-up cards** that deal in, tilt toward the cursor and lift on hover. Their WoW item-quality
 colour says how strong a pick is, and each card lists exactly what changes, like
 `Damage 20 » 26` or `Targets 2 » 3`.
- **A class movement spell on F** from level 5, aimed at the cursor: Blink, Charge, Sprint, Dash,
 Fade, Ghost Wolf, Aspect of the Cheetah, Blessing of Freedom, Howl of Terror.
- **A camera you can free:** locked top-down by default with the hero facing the cursor. **C**
 unlocks it to swing and tilt, and the wheel zooms from over the shoulder out to 70 yards.
- A light sharpen-and-colour pass over the picture (**G** toggles it).
## Play it
 [code] 
`make build` chains three re-runnable scripts, each skipping what's already done:
| Step | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| `scripts/fetch-data.sh` | downloads the WoW 1.12.1 client and extracts its MPQs |
| `scripts/web-setup.sh` | installs the wasm toolchain (wasi-sdk, wasm-bindgen, binaryen) |
| `scripts/web-build.sh` | builds the client into `web/dist/` |
**Prerequisites:** Rust, `make`, `curl`, `unzip`, and a bash shell. On Windows, run everything from Git Bash; PowerShell and cmd can't run the scripts.
Run `make` (or `make help`) to list every target.
## Controls
See CONTROLS.md. The short version: **WASD** to move, **Space** to jump, **F**
for your class's movement spell, the **mouse wheel** to zoom, **C** to unlock the camera, **Esc**
to pause, **1/2/3** to pick a level-up card.
## The game data (not in this repo)
This repo ships **no Blizzard content** — no art, models, sounds, maps, MPQ contents, or
FrameXML. The game reads a WoW 1.12.1 client's `Data` folder at runtime, which you supply.
`make build` (via `scripts/fetch-data.sh`) downloads the **English WoW 1.12.1 (build 5875)**
client from archive.org (~5.5 GB) and extracts the
MPQs into `wow-data/Data/` (git-ignored, resumable, skipped when already present).