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The Keep on the Borderlands -- in Minecraft
« Thread Started on May 10, 2012, 5:09am »

I just built this and thought you guys might appreciate it.

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Re: The Keep on the Borderlands -- in Minecraft
« Reply #1 on May 10, 2012, 5:19am »

When you say you "built" it, what does that mean?

The images are awesome, by the way!

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Re: The Keep on the Borderlands -- in Minecraft
« Reply #2 on May 10, 2012, 6:08am »

Looks great! Though area 21 (Inner Bailey) is supposed to grass-covered for troop-driling and jousting.

What is "Minecraft"?

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Re: The Keep on the Borderlands -- in Minecraft
« Reply #3 on May 10, 2012, 6:31am »

It's funny how I can look at those images and memories resurface as if I'd physically been there many times. Thanks for doing this and thanks for sharing! Have an exalt!

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Re: The Keep on the Borderlands -- in Minecraft
« Reply #4 on May 10, 2012, 8:26am »

This is Minecraft: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmB9b5njVbA

Minecraft is probably the most creative video game ever created.

Isomage, the keep looks fantastic! Great job and here's an Exalt!

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Re: The Keep on the Borderlands -- in Minecraft
« Reply #5 on May 10, 2012, 11:10am »

May 10, 2012, 6:31am, SMKSensei wrote:

It's funny how I can look at those images and memories resurface as if I'd physically been there many times. Thanks for doing this and thanks for sharing! Have an exalt!

I know exactly what you mean...

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Re: The Keep on the Borderlands -- in Minecraft
« Reply #6 on May 10, 2012, 5:27pm »

That is very good! Be sure to share any other fantasy related maps you make!

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Re: The Keep on the Borderlands -- in Minecraft
« Reply #7 on May 10, 2012, 5:51pm »

Finarvyn and Zenopus: Minecraft is a first-person video game wherein you can run around and explore a wilderness, adventure into caves, fight monsters, mine and collect resources, craft your own weapons and equipment, farm, and build pretty much anything you can imagine. The game is deliberately "lo-fi", with a characteristic blocky look due to the world being made of one-meter cubes of rock, dirt, sand, and so on. The video Fandomaniac linked shows you what it looks like.

SMKSensei and Kesher: I'm glad my version of the Keep was so evocative of memories -- B2 was my first adventure, and I've always had a particular fondness for it. It's really neat to be able to walk around inside the Keep and look up at the towers and stuff.

Warrioroffrobozz: You can check out some of my other projects at http://isomage.imgur.com/ and here's a Japanese-style castle I built and currently live in on a multiplayer server I play on: http://imgur.com/a/xalRP

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Re: The Keep on the Borderlands -- in Minecraft
« Reply #8 on May 10, 2012, 7:20pm »

That's fantastic! We've been building the Dwimmermount dungeon in Minecraft. Right now the server it lives on is not open to the public, but I'd love to get OD&D boards folks involved.

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Re: The Keep on the Borderlands -- in Minecraft
« Reply #9 on May 10, 2012, 8:56pm »

That is awesome! I love Minecraft, though I haven't played in a while. Back when I was running B4 I started recreating the pyramid from that module, but gave up early on because I'm lazy. What people can do with this game never ceases to amaze me.

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Re: The Keep on the Borderlands -- in Minecraft
« Reply #10 on May 11, 2012, 8:52pm »

I'm not sure how many of you are fans of Zork, but here's a Minecraft map I can't recommend enough:
http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/458262-adv-zork-craft-10-release/

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Re: The Keep on the Borderlands -- in Minecraft
« Reply #11 on May 11, 2012, 9:14pm »

Awesome. I love Zork and I've actually thought about doing that myself

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Re: The Keep on the Borderlands -- in Minecraft
« Reply #12 on May 11, 2012, 9:47pm »

In case anyone's interested in doing D&D to Minecraft conversions, here's how I related D&D's ten-foot squares to Minecraft's one-meter blocks (D&D's squares are in blue):

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Note that this gives a horizontal scale of 4 meters per 10 feet, so you should scale tower heights, etc., accordingly; thus, for example, a 30' tower would be 12 blocks tall.

This results in the Minecraft version being slightly larger than the D&D original, but this actually works very well -- since Minecraft has a resolution of one meter, you tend to need to build slightly larger than 1:1 anyway if you want the interior spaces to be the right size (the walls of a house, for example, aren't usually one meter thick). So, a 10' wide corridor made this way would measure 3 meters in interior width, or about 9.8 feet -- pretty close!

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Re: The Keep on the Borderlands -- in Minecraft
« Reply #13 on May 18, 2012, 10:01am »

I have heard about Minecraft, but never played it.

On the other hand, I had checked-out an online game some kid was playing at the local library called Roblox that looked like a Lego-styled Minecraft game. Its actually quite fun! In my own "Place," I had built a space port, large (16x16) walls with game sprites from Legend of Zelda (not permanent: just goofing around), and I'm working on a dungeon (lots of excavation work!). I also discovered a way to fly under the map, so I can see under the map's surface as a hollow shell... so I'm going to dig around, and plant some funny and/or obscene eastereggs.

And yes, Minecraft and Roblox are like Legos, but for grown-ups.

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Re: The Keep on the Borderlands -- in Minecraft
« Reply #14 on May 18, 2012, 10:28am »

May 18, 2012, 10:01am, Malcadon wrote:

And yes, Minecraft and Roblox are like Legos, but for grown-ups.

Which makes me think a Keep built out of Legos would be awesome...

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