A Clean Game-Data API For Modders And Wiki Builders
Spire Codex decompiles Slay the Spire 2 and exposes its cards, relics, and content as a structured API, reaching 216 GitHub stars from modders, wiki maintainers, and tool builders who need reliable game data, and its issues reveal the demand and the quality bar: parsers are missing upgraded card values and have data bugs, the project hardcodes the English locale so it cannot serve the game's many Steam languages, the wiki team needs renderer aspect-ratio control to produce assets, and Chinese-speaking players are asking for localized data and docs. Communities around data-rich games need accurate, localized, queryable game data that survives each game patch. The wedge is a game-data API that is complete, multilingual, and kept in sync with the game.
Problem Statement
A modder or wiki maintainer for a content-heavy game needs accurate, structured data for every card and relic, but the decompiled API is missing upgraded values, hardcodes the English locale so non-English players are excluded, lacks renderer aspect-ratio control the wiki team needs, and has no localized docs. Structured game data is exactly what the community needs, but an API that is incomplete and English-only cannot become the shared source of truth that mods and wikis depend on.
The Idea
A structured, multilingual game-data API that decompiles a game's content into accurate, queryable data for modders, wikis, and companion tools, kept current with each patch.
Why Now
Data-rich games like Slay the Spire 2 spawn huge ecosystems of mods, wikis, and tier-list tools in 2026, and Spire Codex's traction shows builders need structured data rather than scraping, but its missing upgraded values, English-only locale, and renderer gaps show that data completeness and localization, not just the decompile trick, are what stand between a hobby dump and the canonical data layer a game community builds on.
Target User
Game modders, wiki maintainers, and companion-tool builders
Target Market
Game-data APIs and modding infrastructure
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