Egg Zero

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A quick and dirty level editor for Rain World made over a weekend. It allows you to open existing maps from the game to view and edit their contents with a convenient graphical interface. Rain World's map data is separate from the graphics for the map, which are just single pre-rendered image files. This level editor only supports editng the data, not the images.

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A two week modding project that adds an entirely new region to Rain World that is an amalgamation of many of the map files that went unused in the final game. This mod stitches all of these discrete maps together in as coherent of a way as possible, and brings them back to life by populating them with creatures, objects, ambient sfx, etc. There's even some secret hidden objects to find containing some custom lore. This mod attempts to be as complete of a region as possible, even containing its own background art for the title screen and an entry in the region select menu. It also features custom procedural threat music composed by Mikronaut.

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This region was created only two months after the initial release of Rain World, and was the first of its kind, providing a lot of new knowledge for the Rain World modding community. Among the knowledge gained was:

First time room interconnections or creature spawns were modded in the game.

First time new gate rooms or shelter rooms were modded.

First time a new region was modded into the game.

First time a custom map display was rendered.

Reverse-engineering Rain World's text encryption, being the first time text or dialog was added or modded in the game.

First time a new threat music track was added to the game.

First instance of new objects being modded into dev tools. (Data pearls and vulture masks)

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A two week modding project that introduces the following five new playable characters into Rain World, each with their own unique playstyles, abilities, pros and cons:

The Spearmaster

You can carry up to three spears at once (one in each hand, one in your mouth).

You can reclaim spears that get lodged in walls.

Eating food does not fill your hibernation progress bar.

Stabbing living creatures is the only thing that will gain you progress.

The Rivulet

You can breathe underwater forever.

You are much more agile and athletic. Your motions are faster and your jumps cover significantly more distance.

All cycles are half their usual durations.

The Gourmand

If nothing is stored in your stomach, you can still pull infinite objects from your stomach void.

You require significantly more food to hibernate.

You are susceptible to fall damage and can die from falls much more easily.

You get tired and out of breath easily.

The Artificer

You can explosively transmogrify certain objects in your stomach at the cost of one unit of food.

Explosions deal significantly less damage and knockback to you, and you won't get stunned for as long.

You can propel yourself while airborne with a bang. However, overusing this technique is dangerous for the body.

Scavengers are your long time arch rivals and will attack you on sight.

Your body is dangerously reactive with water.

The Saint

You cannot eat meat of any kind.

You cannot carry or use weapons in any way.

You are very fragile. A number of creatures previously harmless are now deadly.

You will lose all karma on death.

You have a long, versatile tongue you can use to stick to objects.

Contained is a Minecraft mod that introduces new mechanics that encourage, facilitate, and allow the studying of group dynamics.

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Credits:

Created by me, Damian Debkowski, Li Yin, Nicole Yson, and Yichen Yue, under the supervision of Mubbasir Kapadia.

Development Time: 5 months

Development Progress Videos

Data Logging and Visualization

Finite Worlds, Wasteland, Ore Clustering

Finite Biomes

Region Protection

Territory Acquisition & Visualization

Team Management

Territory Machines & Town Hall Purchases

Mini-Games

Admin Console

Exploration Server 4

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Exploration Server IV is the final and most ambitious of the Exploration Server projects. It takes the dungeon crawling and gameplay progression concepts from Exploration Server III, and combines it with the massive-scale passive exploration of the original two Exploration Servers. There's 15+ massive sized primary dungeons, each containing a boss battle at their end, as well as 50+ smaller dungeons, villages, and other points of interest. This is also the first Exploration Server to heavily integrate mods. The custom items, monsters, blocks, etc from those mods have been meticuously integrated all throughout the map. Both monsters and the players follow a custom-coded leveling system, making the map reminiscent of a MMORPG experience.

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Credits:

This was a solo project.

Development Time: 6 months.

Map Credits:

Apterra

Exotopia

Calastore

Sewer Dungeon

Kingdom of Beret

Blockworks Inc.

Eva 02

Metal Gear Bunker

Spires of Lyceum

The Winter's Sanctuary

Borobudur

Galos Citadel

Witchy Potion Hut

Lethe

Underwater Wonderland

Antarias

Dabahr Boiyait

Thontodur

Golestandts Den

Valraack

The Lost Temple

Hide and Go Seek Mineshaft

Bird Sanctuary

La Cit Ferique

Evil Yet Heavenly

Obscurity Arena

Terrinthiad Arena

Fantasy Islands

Alice Madness Wonderland

Alice Madness Far East

Alice Madness Dollhouse

Alice Madness Adventure

Fountain City Floating Islands

Steampunk Owl

Natural Inferno Portal

Inferno Tower

Burning Inferno Parkour

Sky Temple

Fire Castle

Windw of Balrog

Dragon Bone Passage

Mob Arena

Abu Simbel

Desert Temple

Ereseth

Kagrenzal Ruin

Raldbfar Ruin

Abandoned Arena

Iduna

The Eye

The Kingdom of Cipher

Death Sentence Arena

Angel Statue

Aeternium

Anduria

Pyramid

Nether Palace

Fairy Mansion

Swordhaven

Mushroom Valley

Nether Fortress

Japanese Pagoda

Fortress of Nar

Three Towers

Boxing Ring

Garden of the Hallowed

Witches Tower

Ancient Catacombs

Erebor

Mod Credits:

Exploration Server IV (custom)

Ars Magica 2 (modified from source)

Botania (modified from source)

Touhou Mod (converted to multiplayer, modified from source)

Applied Energistics 2

Mine Factory Reloaded

Thermal Dynamics

Thermal Expansion

Thermal Foundation

Tinkers Construct

Thaumcraft

Bagginses

Better Records

Bibliocraft

Big Reactors

Craft Heraldry

Dark Menagerie

Extra Cells

Extra TiC

Extra Utilities

FastCraft

Fast Leaf Decay

Forbidden Magic

Grimoire of Gaia 3

Head Crumbs

HQM

Hunger Overhaul

Iguana Tinker Tweaks

Iron Chests

JABBA

Jukebox Reloaded

Lycanites Mobs

Mob Properties

MineTweaker

ModTweaker

MrCrayfish Furniture Mod

Mutant Creatures

Natura

ObsidiPlates

Pam's Harvestcraft

Special AI

Storage Drawers

Super Crafting Frame

Thaumcraft NEI Plugin

Thaumic Tinkerer

Twilight Forest

Witchery

WorldEdit

Custom Main Menu

It's The Little Things

Journeymap

Not Enough Items

NEI Integration

NEI Add-ons

TiC Tooltips

Waila

Waila Harvestability

Baubles

ttCore

Perfect Spawn

Help Fixer

Mantle

CoFHCore

CodeChickenCore

CodeChickenLib

CazzarCoreLib

Animation API

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This is the smallest of the Exploration Servers, but it marks a significant deviation in style from the previous two. The previous consisted of very passive exploration with no real goal, and builds were largely imported as is, with little modification other than terraformation. This Exploration Server used command blocks to convert the builds into dungeons, populating them with custom mob spawners, treasure chests, NPCs, and other features, putting an emphasis on dungeon crawling and combat in addition to exploration. Unlike the other Exploration Servers, this map did have an end goal, with a difficulty curve, and a structured gameplay progression across the different builds. This went more in the direction of what you would find in a CTM adventure map.

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Credits:

This was a solo project.

Development Time: 6 weeks.

Map Credits:

Eltrean

Bridges

Little Bridge

Nice Island

Flaming Mushroom & Black Tree

Dead Drink Milk Pub

Kralendijk Island

Desert Mesa

Hafsah Desert Village

Incevric Hallow

Kolded Snow Terrain

Winter Garden

Almarin

Wizard's Tower

Siofra Elven Village

Aandovale Grove

Haunted Mansion

Dellirium

Isenholm

Seahorse Tower

Lumina Resort Hotel

Almor

Grim Thorim

Angantyr

Obduralith

Rift

Survive for as long as you can atop a fragile arena constantly deteriorating from a bombardment of various explosives.

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In later versions of AdventureCraft, this was packaged as one of the program's featured maps.

Created by me, and then later improved by LahLeon. The Challenge mode variant was also created by LahLeon.

Development Time: 1 day.

An ode to Zelda's Cave of Ordeals. Conquer a long series of floors which pit you against waves of monsters and obstacles.

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Credits:

This was a solo project, my first AdventureCraft map.

Development Time: 1 week.

Music Credits:

1st Zone: One Ordinal Day, by Darth 'Snake' Nefelim

2nd Zone: Crazy Mind, by warhawk/chipztream

3rd Zone: Anna Mulle Griitsit, by beathawk

4th Zone: Dark Descent, by Feryl

5th Zone: Back Again, by #4mat

Rest Zones: A Perfect World, by malmen

A 1.7.10 Minecraft mod that is all about cookies. My first mod made mostly as a silly experiment to get practice with different aspects of modding Minecraft.

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Credits:

Made as a solo project.

Development Time: 2 weeks.

A spiritual successor to my friend's first practice mod, which also was entirely cookie themed.

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Primary Cookie Hierarchy

Cookie Ore: Harvestable with an iron pickaxe or better. Drops 3-6 cookies per ore. A good early-game source of cookies.

Compressed Cookie: Right-clicking with one of these in hand destroys it, producing two normal cookies. Effectively allows you to utilize fuel to continuously double your cookie supply through smelting.

Cookie Block: Harvestable with any shovel. Drops 4 cookies when harvested, rather than the block itself.

Baked Cookie Block: Harvestable with an iron shovel or better. Drops 3 compressed cookies when harvested, rather than the block itself.

Cookie Cluster: The primary material for making cookie tools and armors.

Cookie Core: A more resource heavy version of the Cookie Cluster for more advanced recipes.

Cookie Gem: Another material used in making cookie tools and armors.

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Tools and Armors

Obsidian Stick: Used as the handle for all cookie tools.

Cookie Shovel: A fast and extremely durable shovel. Right clicking on a shovel-harvestable block will destroy a 3x3x3 region, but will not produce drops (with Cookie Blocks and Cookie Dirt being exceptions). This action consumes one compressed cookie per use.

Cookie Pickaxe: A fast and extremely durable pickaxe. Right clicking a stone block will destroy a 3x3x3 region without drops (costs 1 compressed cookie). You can also right click obsidian blocks to harvest them instantly, consuming one regular cookie.

Cookie Axe: A fast and extremely durable axe. You can right click on a tree trunk to devestate any tree. This action consumes one compressed cookie per use.

Cookie Sword: A powerful and extremely durable sword. You can right-click to shoot projectiles, consuming one cookie per use. This effectively replicates the classic 'machine-gun' minecraft bow. Good times.

Cookie Helmet: Equivelent in defense to a Diamond Helmet, but also provides the passive effects of night-vision and water-breathing.

Cookie Chestplate: Equivelent in defense to a Diamond Chestplate, but also provides the passive effect of Strength I.

Cookie Leggings: Equivelent in defense to Diamond Leggings, but also provides the passive effects of fire resistance and high jumping.

Cookie Boots: Equivelent in defense to Diamond Boots, but also provides the passive effects of extra speed.

Villager Spawn: A utility recipe for helping you get the Emeralds that you need.

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Cookie Metaverse

Cookie Negabrick: Need to place these in a 4x5 rectangle to form a portal to enter the Cookie Metaverse. The materials around the perimeter of the recipe consist of 4 nether bricks, 2 obsidian blocks, and 2 coal blocks.

Cookie Sigil: This activates the aformentioned portal. The Cookie Metaverse is an extremely dangerous and hostile place, so make sure you're very well prepared before entering. Or rather, you should be well prepared before even activating the portal itself...

Cookie Dirt: The primary material that the terrain in the Cookie Metaverse is made out of. Can only be harvested with a cookie shovel. Note, however, that Cookiebugs live in the dirt... so digging it up may disturb them.

Cookie Essence: Dropped when you harvest cookie dirt.

Cookie Aetherbrick: Strange structures scattered throughout the Metaverse are made out of this material. Can only be harvested with a cookie pickaxe. Inflicts random negative status effects to the player for every block that is mined.

Cookie Diamondite: The single centerpiece laying atop the strange towers that appear throughout the Metaverse. Can only be harvested with a cookie axe.

Edible Cookiesword: Occasionally dropped by Cookie Bandits in the Metaverse. Provides the effect of Strength II for 30 seconds when consumed.

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Advanced Recipes

Frosted Cookie: Gives the effect of Regeneration II for 20 seconds when consumed. Stack size is 8.

Sugar Cookie: Gives 10 saturation hearts for five minutes once consumed. Stack size is 8.

ChocoMint Cookie: Extends your base health by 10 hearts for five minutes once consumed. Stack size is 8.

Supreme Edible Cookiesword: Provides the effect of Strength III for 30 seconds when consumed.

Other uses of Cookie Essence (totally not an EE ripoff):

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Cookie Aetherspring: While standing on this block, you are given the ability to jump extremely high. (Equivelant to Jump XV)

Cookie Aetherboost: While standing on this block, you are temporarily given the ability to move extremely fast. (Equivelant to Speed X for 10 seconds)

Cookie Aethermedic: While standing on this block, your health regenerates extremely quickly. However, this regeneration requires you to have cookies in your inventory, and it consumes cookies as it heals you.

Cookie Aetherosmose: While standing on this block, any cookies in your inventory are rapidly converted into raw EXP.

Cookie Clicker: Right clicking on this block will create a brief spatio-dimensional link to the Cookie Metaverse, just long enough to materialize a cookie from the dimension. This is a cost-free operation, giving you a functionally infinite supply of cookies, only at the expense of your finger muscles. Be on your guard, however, as sometimes monsters from the Cookieverse make it through the link. With this rapid, infinite supply of cookies, you have surely won the game. Or have you?...

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Cookie Clicker Tier

Unusual Cookie: A rare, strange cookie that can occur through a mutation due to occasional, uncontrollable unstability in the Metaverse link. Probably doesn't taste good.

Cookie Redeemer: Standing on this block will rapidly convert any cookies in your inventory into valuable CookieCash™. More specifically, each cookie is redeemable for exactly 1 CookieCash™. Right-clicking on the redeemer will display your current CookieCash™ balance.

Advanced Cookie Redeemer: A higher-tier version of the redeemer that is used to convert the more advanced cookie items into larger quantities of CookieCash™. The conversion rates are as follows:

Cookie Essence: 2 CookieCash™

Compressed Cookie: 3 CookieCash™

Frosted Cookie: 15 CookieCash™

Sugar Cookie: 25 CookieCash™

ChocoMint Cookie: 30 CookieCash™

Unusual Cookie: 50 CookieCash™

Gourmet ChocoCherry Cookie: 100 CookieCash™

Solar Cookie: 100 CookieCash™

Lunar Cookie: 100 CookieCash™

Ender Cookie: 100 CookieCash™

The following Dispenser Items allow you to right-click them to redeem your CookieCash™ for specific cookie items. The number on top of the blocks cooresponds to the CookieCash™ cost of the item. It is the same as the values listed under the Advanced Cookie Redeemer above.

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Gourmet ChocoCherry Cookie Dispenser: Allows you to redeem 100 CookieCash™ for a Gourmet ChocoCherry Cookie. When eaten, these cookies give you Regeneration VI for 30 seconds, making you nearly invincible, except against one-hit kill attacks.

Solar Cookie Dispenser: Allows you to redeem 100 CookieCash™ for a Solar Cookie. When eaten, the world time will instantly be set to daytime.

Lunar Cookie Dispenser: Allows you to redeem 100 CookieCash™ for a Lunar Cookie. When eaten, the world time will instantly be set to nighttime.

Ender Cookie Dispenser: Allows you to redeem 100 CookieCash™ for an Ender Cookie. When eaten, you will instantly be teleported to your spawn point, even across dimensions.

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This was the original Exploration Server. It was a very rough concept at this point, and this first server mainly served as a playground for experimenting with the idea. There was no real thought behind the placement of the builds in the map... just kind of downloaded any builds that looked cool and stitched them in wherever there was room. The builds were placed very close together so not too much exploration was needed to find things. There was also no goal or progression to the map other than passive exploration.

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The map was also an evolving project that expanded as my friends and I explored it. Each night when we were done playing, I'd take the server offline and add some new stuff into it. Sometimes things in the world would change around too; like there were a few floating/flying structures which would migrate to different random locations in the map after every server reset. Eventually I added some bukkit plugins, and along with it some minor goals to persue throughout the map. There were a series of hidden towers added that could be accessed through chains of nether portals scattered throughout the different builds, and each tower would unlock permanent special abilities for your player if you managed to reach them. We also had a teleporter plugin which we utilized to set out on a goal to interconnect all the different builds with fast travel points. The fast travel was localized into a dense hub of teleporters that we called The Nexus. Exploration Server IV's Nexus is a callback to this.

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Credits:

This was a solo project.

Development Time: 4 months.

Map Credits:

Wizard Tower

Lumina Nocturnale

Tsuchi Iwa Castle

Studio Ghibli Builds

Mistral City Recreation

Rapture

Land of Kronos

Canyon

Doshtopolis

Amphibia Luxury Cruiser

Pagoda

Moment of Impact

Sapphire Citadel

Scorpion Fortress

Creeper Temple

Open Pit Mine

Mines of Moria

Flying Saucer

Airport

Mount Craftmore

Dagon & Oblivion Portal

Floating Islands

(There's more, but I wasn't able to track down the original source links for the rest...)

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Manipulate ancient machines to alter the properties and composition of the game world, in order to reach your final goal.

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Credits:

A 48-hour jam project by me, Shahan Akhter, and Justin Melendez.

Made with Unity.

Work with a friend to perform rituals and dispel a raging titan. Heavily inspired by Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, where one player has a ritual pamphlet and the other operates the game.

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Credits:

A joint 48-hour jam project by me and Shahan Akhter.

Made with Unity.

A competitive multiplayer mini-game, where attacks manifest only across the directional links that connect the playing fields. This requires offensive and defensive visual multitasking.

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Credits:

This was a solo 48-hour jam project.

Made with Game Maker.

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↑ was created as part of braingale.org's Architects EP. It is a game about scaling a tower as high as you can, by cycling between three game phases:

Build Phase: You have access to an inventory of building items which you can use to construct platforms and mechanisms to help you scale further up the tower.

Spawn Phase: New enemies spawn into the game world.

Action Phase: The game unfreezes itself, and you are given 15 seconds to achieve as much as you can. This includes climbing higher, fighting enemies, and opening treasure chests. The latter two provide you with cards, which can be flipped over during the build phase. Cards award you with random building blocks, potions, new weapons, upgrades, and other helpful items.