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Simburbia flew past 100,000 downloads!

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I wasn’t even watching and BOOM 130,000 downloads. Sped on by 100,000 like it was nothing. It took Eronev Mansion Adventure almost a year for its first 100k and people said that was a popular map. To hit 100,000 in only a few weeks is amazing and we’re well on our way to more. It’s true though that the downloads are dropping off like a rock now. The B-Team has ended their LP which is a shame, Captain Sparklez own town was brought back from the brink of destruction. Meola keeps on trucking on and Breny Beast is one of the few to get the Rainbow Brite town hall!

Point is, that fewer and fewer are picking it up and you know what that means… time to get out a new map! But of course things take time. I’m not a map making machine like coldfusiongaming and my work often interferes with the process. So who knows when the next project will come out. I’m hoping before Christmas but who knows, I think I have another idea that I might release for Christmas if I get around to it… but who knows. I might just end up sitting down and playing smash bros until the end of the year. Such is the life of a map maker who has no obligation to do anything :p

Anyway, not really sure why I felt the need to update, very few people actually read the boxes and latest news but I thought for posterities sake it might be a good idea to let people know where I was and what I was doing. Oh yeah, I’ll probably still release a behind the scenes of Simburbia at some point. I did some prep work already so it’s totally going to come out! Until then, here is a little teaser for the map I’m knee deep in development with right now.

Happy Holidays 2013

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This webpage didn’t exist last year. It’s come a long way from its beginning only 8 months ago. Many people asked “where can I play all your maps?” So I decided to make a place where they were all in one place, a place where you can comment directly on the maps and where I could read it, a place that I could post stuff about what I’m doing next and a place that’s organised and easy to understand.

Well, I got some of those things right with this page. To be honest when I started making maps I never would have thought I would have grown to the point where I would even need a website like this, but here it is, averaging 5-10 simultaneous viewers at any one time, and hundreds of visits every day, I am happy and surprised at what it’s become. My youtube channel has obviously become on the back burner since I’ve started doing a lot more heavy map making, especially now with stuff like Herobrine 3 that I’m working on. But I am still here, plugging away. I should though reiterate that this isn’t a job for me, I do it all for fun. I have a full time job elsewhere so if I’m too tired to make maps or whatever then I certainly wont and I’ll play some games instead. But I do enjoy making them which is why I continue to do so.

Herobrine 3 did originally plan to release around this time but the stuff we’re doing in that map (sorry, no voice acting at this stage) take a lot of time. The bosses are epic if I do say so myself and certainly are something I don’t think anyone has done to this scale before. And finally there are my own projects that I am also working on. One such start up was inspired after I played rsmalec’s Tiny Minecraft mAPP. We are now collaborating on that project together and it’s pretty unbelievable to be honest. Sometimes I worry though because even on my computer it can chugg sometimes… there is a LOT of redstone in this one. It certainly wont be playable on low end pcs… or even high end laptops probably… but it’s something that people have wanted for a really long time and I think can be played again and again.

I leave you with this screenshot of a little diagram that I was using for a while to help with the development of this map and thought I would share it with you as a little present. Enjoy and see you in 2014.

Handy Dandy 1.7 Compatibility Chart

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I worked through the night working on making sure my maps are compatible with 1.7… it’s 6am now and it’s time for bed. I didn’t get them all done, but what I did do was make this handy dandy compatibility chart which shows you which maps have been tested and/or updated to work with 1.7 in its current form. Things like Adventure Multiplex 2, and Soul Cauldron are pretty much ready for me to upload pending verification that a particular bug was fixed. If it was fixed then I’ll be good to upload those fixed versions and they will be good to go too. City of Love is a different beast all together and may take a little longer (if at all depending on how much work it will take to make compatible), let’s not even talk about multiplex 1 for now.

In any case, my new map “The Jugglers Balls” will be out sometime this weekend. Probably not long after I finish updating the village and soul cauldron which I do hope can be published as working for 1.7 this weekend also. Man updates are a lot of work!

Marvel at the current state of the compatibility chart! As I update it, I will update it here and everywhere as well.

The Jugglers Balls is the exception as it will run in 1.7.x ONLY and does NOT work in 1.6 or earlier.

Update: The village was added to the compatibility list! Download now for a 1.7 compatible version.

Update: Eronev 2 joins the 1.7 compatibility list!

1.7 Updates and New Adventure Map!

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1.7 is almost here, and with it a whole host of new challenges. I am going to be working to update all of my maps ASAP to be working for 1.7. If you start any of the maps now, it’s recommended that you FINISH the map first before upgrading to 1.7 else you may break something. If anything is not compatible for 1.7 by the time 1.7 comes out, there will be a little status notice somewhere on this website (probably on the download pages).

At least, for the most part, there are very minimal changes that need to be made. Unfortunately City of Love will be impacted the most because of the way the chat window displays text is now vastly different than before which may cause some issues, but I’ll figure that out when I get to it. Soul Cauldron has some issues with Villager trading which @texelelf has been kind enough to provide a filter that will fix said issues, and let’s not even talk about the amount of fixes that may be necessary to fix the adventure multiplex maps.

You would think that with all of this work that it takes each time an update comes around so that the maps can still be played that it would put a dent in my resolve to make content. But nope. It doesn’t. My new map is coming, and it is made for 1.7 and uses a bunch of cool tech in 1.7. It’s a short map, very story and special effects focused, and_should_be impossible for rsmalec to break. The first teaser trailer is scheduled to be unlocked in some hours, which you’ll be able to view here. I hope you enjoy it.