To celebrate the 8-month anniversary of the start of Project RF Minecraft, I've asked Splat to update this post.
As pretty much everyone who keeps in touch with recent events regarding Oddworld knows by now, on 18/06/11 I started an epic project to construct a representation of Rupture Farms in Minecraft on the OWF Minecraft server. The project has had its share of setbacks and hiatuses, progress is still slow, but it's weathered well and has so far been a LOT more successful than I originally imagined.
At first I only meant to build a shell without much of an interior, then as the project grew and interest peaked, with many people willing to help me, I decided to start making it into an adventure map.
The early stages of the project were originally done entirely in Survival Mode, where land clearance and all blocks were earned legitimately by both myself and many of the regular OWF server players (listed below).
However, at this stage of the project (video link), I discovered that I was spending most of my time gathering materials rather than building. Splat found a way of allowing players to go into Creative mode in multiplayer, and from that point on the project was done in Creative.
At around this time I also found that it was possible to turn what had been built into a filmset, and re-create Abe's Oddysee's intro within Minecraft. With that part of the project being hugely successful, work to continue turning it into an adventure map is ongoing at time of writing.
This map will be downloadable and available to the public domain once the project is complete, provided I can find a host. The plan is to complete is much as possible on the OWF Server before transferring it and adding finishing touches in single player using an editor, for the downloadable, public map.
I owe a lot to all of those who have helped me with this - Your feedback and support is always greatly appreciated. The project wouldn't be as good as it is today if it wasn't for it.
Contributors as of 18/02/12:
(In no order - Some have done a lot more than others, but every contribution, even small, indirect ones, has been important.)
Havoc
Splat
Dripik
Wil
Crashpunk
Mudokon_Master
Phylum
Alexfili
Carnix
Tim Cottenham
Hulaabeo
El'Scrabino
Scraby
Ridg3
Enchilado
Oddhunter
T-Nex
Glitch
Mactus
Links:
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Link to Minecraft Oddworld skins used for the AO Intro Movie (Page 7, 199!)
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RF poster painting replacement texture pack
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Boardroom Projector images preview
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Separate thread for the Abe's Oddysee intro FMV and further movies.
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OWF Server topic.
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My YouTube playlist of videos of this project.
Videos:
First completed stage of the project
(discussion here):
Update video 3, also shows a WIP slideshow of how much progress was made in one month after the project start:
Images:
