AI Aversion

Photo by Nahrizul Kadri / UnsplashA few days ago I saw a post on Reddit where someone had released a tool for taking Halo Infinite replays and turning them into a 2D represented viewer with playback. https://demo.lvelup.info/en/t/halo_infinite/players/demo-player/matches/572e236b-8740-4052-a351-33ec0204053d/replay This wasn't the first time one of these products had come up, because a few months prior to that OpenSpartan released their own iteration of this tool. From someone who had peeked at the Halo Infinite recordings binary files I was quite impressed with both the tools. Since mapping out the internal structure of these video files was time consuming and challenging and not something I could figure out on my own.Halo Infinite replays are not video files, but internal game engine data that the game uses in order to replay the game. These are pretty small files in the scale of things (~8MB for most of my matches) compared to a 1080p video that may be approaching 1GB in size.6…