October 10, 2022
Comes to no surprise if you read my blog or follow me on Twitter (or maybe you're even following OpenSpartan if you're that into niche content) that the Halo Infinite API has been somewhat of a focus domain for me for the past year. It single-handedly took over most of my free engineering time because it's that interesting to me as a frequent Halo player.
July 25, 2022
If you've been following some of my recent work, you might've caught my latest blog post on enabling hidden game modes and maps in Halo Infinite. Well, clearly my curiosity got the best of me, because this post is very much a continuation of that story.
July 12, 2022
You might've seen over the course of the past couple of months since the Halo Infinite release some news and rumors about upcoming game modes in the game. I wondered how those folks got their hands on the new experience and just assumed that it's typical data mining in game files to look for new assets. That was until I really got hooked on the Halo Infinite story, started exploring the undocumented Halo Infinite API, and realized that the answer to my question was here all along!
July 10, 2022
If you've been following me on Twitter, you probably already know that I spend inordinate amounts of time on reverse engineering the Halo Infinite API. As I am working on my .NET wrapper for it (astutely called Grunt, I realized that putting together a nice-to-use blanket over the many GET HTTP APIs is relatively straightforward. There are some permissions here and there that I need to figure out, or in some cases fiddle with undocumented query parameters.