Astral Warp Archive, Supports HoYoverse (HSR, ZZZ, GI, H3I)

Inspiration 🚂🌠

Astral Warp Archive started as a practical solution to a messy problem: players across Honkai: Star Rail, Genshin Impact, Zenless Zone Zero, Honkai Impact 3rd, and expanded gacha titles were juggling spreadsheets, screenshots, and ad‑hoc tools to track pulls, pity, and financial spend.

By framing gacha mechanics as financial probability management, we unified those scattered workflows into a single cosmic dashboard. Our mission is to turn randomness into actionable financial intelligence, empowering players to make informed, budget-conscious decisions while fostering transparent, competitive community leaderboards.

What It Does 🌃

Astral Warp Archive is a comprehensive AI-powered gacha intelligence & budgeting platform that enables players to:

Import and Normalize Logs: Ingest warp/wish/signal history via gacha-log URLs, UIGF files, or public UID-based account stats (Mihomo for HSR, Enka for Genshin/ZZZ).
Visualize Pity & Spending: Monitor soft/hard pity progression, banner probabilities, and historical luck metrics in real time.
Real-Time Banner Forecasting: Utilize our Gemini AI engine to project multi-banner savings timelines, calculate exact pull efficiency, and simulate pull outcomes before spending real funds.
Pro Tier & Budget Control ($2.99/mo): Access premium features including unlimited AI scenario simulations, proactive spending threshold alerts, and custom profile styling.
Expanded Game Matrix Support: Track pulls across major HoYoverse ecosystems as well as expanded titles (e.g., Wuthering Waves, Arknights) with native companion widgets.
Compare Global Performance: Benchmark player luck against the global community on dynamic live leaderboards.

️ How We Built It 🌉

Architecture & Stack Highlights (Google Cloud Ecosystem)

AI & Intelligence Layer: Google Cloud Vertex AI (Gemini) powers our AI Warp Advisor, driving our predictive banner forecasting engine, scenario simulations, and personalized financial coaching.
Backend Logic & Ingestion: Google Cloud Functions (Node.js) handle serverless history ingestion, strict data parsing, validation, and schema normalization across all supported game formats.
Database Layer: Google Cloud Firestore serves as our serverless datastore, structured with composite single-table indexing (USER#<email>, WARP#<game>#<banner>, LEADERBOARD#<gameId>).
Frontend Application: Next.js framework styled with TailwindCSS for a responsive "dark cosmic" aesthetic dashboard.
Authentication: Custom authentication using bcryptjs password hashing with nanoid session tokens and httpOnly cookie persistence.

Key Challenges Solved 🌌

Multi-Game Schema Normalization: Built robust parser pipelines in Google Cloud Functions to handle structural variances across multi-studio formats and UIGF files.
Agentic Financial Coaching: Designed prompt pipelines in Vertex AI to turn complex, probabilistic gacha mechanics into plain-English financial advice without latency spikes.
Predictive Scenario Modeling: Optimized Gemini context windows to simulate hundreds of pull scenarios instantly without overloading the client.
UX Balance: Delivered a distinct cosmic aesthetic while keeping chart rendering and pull history lightweight and fast.

Achievements 🏆

Multi-Game Hub & Expanded Matrix: Consolidated HoYoverse titles and non-HoYoverse titles into a single unified tracking dashboard.
Live Monetization & Pro Tier: Launched a active $2.99/mo premium subscription offering unlimited AI scenario simulations and spending alerts.
Predictive AI Engine Live: Integrated Google Cloud Vertex AI to provide real-time banner forecasting and savings timeline modeling.
Global Luck Leaderboard: Deployed a live luck tracking engine with shareable public profiles.

What We Learned 🏫

AI Drives Behavioral Change: Raw charts inform users, but predictive AI tools and scenario simulations actively guide players toward responsible spending habits.
Resilient Pipelines Matter: Game API updates and third-party exports require decoupled, highly tolerant ingestion layers.
Monetization Works Best with Utility: Users enthusiastically subscribe to Pro tiers when actionable AI insights replace tedious manual math.

Roadmap 🛣️

1-Click Browser Extension: Launch a dedicated Chrome/Firefox extension for automatic gacha URL extraction without manual copy-pasting.
Live Streamer & Widget Suite: Provide custom Twitch/YouTube overlay widgets and Discord bots for real-time pull stream alerts and community channel pity tracking.
Co-Op Squad Savings: Introduce social guild tools that allow friend groups to plan combined pull strategies and benchmark squad banner efficiency.
Cryptographic Luck Auditing: Implement transparent proof-of-luck verification on global leaderboards to ensure 100% anti-tamper authenticity.