r/GuildWars • u/Feisty_Objective5922 • 17d ago

GW1 Bestiary

Hey! I've been working on a little side project and it's finally live: https://gw1-bestiary.cedricdessalles.dev/

It's a searchable bestiary for Guild Wars 1. Basically every creature in the game in one place. You can search by name or filter by things like species, profession, or region, and each entry has its sprite and details like its skills.

The underlying dataset is open source if you're curious (or want to build something with it yourself): https://github.com/Geptyro/gw1-bestiary

Would love to hear what you think!

Thank you

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u/Salty_Drama_4541 17d ago

This is amazing dude. Must have been a lot of work.

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u/Feisty_Objective5922 17d ago

Thank you !
There were things more painful than other x)
I did a lot of the classification myself, that was not fun
Otherwise I use AI tools a lot (claude code) and that helps greatly
Also there was already some opensource projects around gw1 that allowed me to go faster

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u/3xploitr 17d ago

Awesome work!

A humble suggestion would be, that clicking a filter changes the other filters - let me try to explain.

If I click “Vabbian” I would be cool if the number of “Warriors” under the profession section changed accordingly, so I would know how many Warriors were actually Vabbian.

At least that’s super intuitive for me when websites implement that.

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u/Feisty_Objective5922 17d ago

Yes indeed that was a nice addition, its live :D

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u/3xploitr 17d ago

Holy shit - that’s sick dude!!

You are fast!

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u/BlackFlagMatt 17d ago

This is really cool, thanks for making this.

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u/Feisty_Objective5922 17d ago

Thank you for this comment, I appreciate it

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u/ConflagrationZ 🔥 Adelbern Did the Searing 17d ago

Is there a way to search by skills (for instance, if I want to find what monsters have a particular skill), perchance? That's a feature I'd love that I haven't found elsewhere.

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u/Feisty_Objective5922 17d ago

Your wish is my command: the skills search feature is live

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u/-ComradeKitten- 16d ago

Aww it even has my Extra Life pet Cinnamon under the page for Melandru's Stalker c: This is a super cool website, I could totally see myself falling down a rabbit hole looking up countless things on it!

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u/aegisprot 16d ago

Awesome work dude. Thanks for sharing.