Good Morning from my Robotics Lab! This is Shadow_8472, and today, I am presenting my work to update the Boat Race from Titaincraft Season one’s custom dimension, The Above. Let’s get Started.
If you are here from the server and spot the “Part 7” in the title, don’t worry. I’m writing this post as a fresh introduction to the project. If you’re interested in the development of the project, feel free to go back and have a read, and if I post about further development, Part 9 and above will also be available.
The Above’s boat race was originally built by Duke and 2Cubed with testing by dminer78. In the original game, players would wander into an ice cave and get teleported to the lobby where they could pick an arena to play their personal next level in. Each of the five levels has a different maze to navigate, ending with a row of gold blocks serving as the finish line. After completing the last course, the game would award the player with a Tango head, the special currency of The Above’s prize system.
The new edition used Duke’s levels but has many technological improvements over 2Cubed’s programming. The 1.13 execute command’s overhaul means that whole blocks of commands that were running all the time are replaced with one or two commands with a smaller footprint on the server’s CPU, and they only run as often as needed. A planned time trial mode would increase the replay value (besides the Tango heads). As part of this planned feature, there would also be a way to choose what level pack you want, and whether or not to shuffle the levels among other, new level tracks. And thanks to MineCraft’s introduction of functions, I decided to rebuild the game so it could be easily expandable; not only should it be fairly easy to add even more new levels but also new games as well as time goes on. For now, I’m calling it the Modular Game Center.
Working on this project, I learned a lot and overcame many challenges, many with the help of Jamcdonald120 and a few others. If you want to learn about a few of them, go back and read parts 1-6. As of this writing, the Modular Game Center still needs a little work once 1.13 gets a stable release and Spigot gets its update in turn.
Final Question: What game would you like to see added to the Modular Game Center?