Run Age of Empires II (WK) on a server. The included ansible script is capable of bootstrapping an Ubuntu install to run AoC. It can be used on an AWS ec2 instance, a local VM, a docker container, or even the local computer.
The game asset must be supplied by you. gzip an Age of Empires II folder with an "offline" WK install. Delete any Voobly files to save space, if there are any.
- Clone this repository
pip3 install ansible- Create clean Ubuntu 18.04 server instance(s)
- Configure ansible as necessary
ansible-playbook install.yml -e path='</path/to/remote/install>' -e game='</path/to/aoc.tar.gz>'
- Connect to server instance
cd </path/to/remote/install>. venv/bin/activatepython -m haoc -i </path/to/remote/install> <path/to/rec>
- GraphQL API wrapper
- MGZ parsing
- Streaming rec input
- Game snapshots
This is experimental software. Use at your own risk.