User:Wuzzy

It’s me, Wuzzy!

I speak German and English.

I am active in this Wiki and in the Luanti forums (same user name). I'm the author of countless mods and even a few games. I make sure the German translation of Luanti stays up-to-date. I sometimes did a few small contributions to Luanti itself, enough to appear as “active contributor” in the credits. :-)

In Luanti, I usually only play in singleplayer, but I sometimes appear in a few servers as well.

You can contact me via XMPP: Wuzzy2@jabber.ccc.de

E-mail: Wuzzy@disroot.org

My creations

• My profile on Content DB
• List of my finished mods in the forums

Games I work or worked on

Completed

• Glitch: You're a bit lost in cyberspace. Collect electrons, slide through the sectors and find the path to your true destination. Winner of the 2022 Minetest Game Jam.
• Repixture: A peaceful sandbox survival game in lush biomes. Build, craft, mine, farm, trade, and do more.
• Eyeballs: Explore the spooky Realm of Eyeballs, where you have to be seen by the eyeballs at all times.
• The RealTest Game (Minetest 5 Edition) (I resurrected a game by sda97)
• Tutorial: Learn how to play!

WIP

• Hades Revisited: You're stranded on the volcanic planet Hades. Can you terraform it to spread nature?
• Lazarr!: Be a pirate, solve laser puzzles to unlock treasure! My (failed) entry for the 2021 Minetest Game Jam, but later decided to continue development.

Abandoned

• VoxeLibre (Formerly MineClone 2. Development taken over by other people. This was my largest game project so far)
• Weird (too ambitious, never really took off, mainly because of lack of inspiration, good ideas and motivation to work out a good and detailed game design [it's harder than you think!])

Other

I also have collaborated quite a while with GunshipPenguin on Hungry Games Plus. And there's a couple of projects which never really took off so far.

Mods I have created

I have made a large number of mods. Mods on which I'm most proud of are in bold.

Gameplay mods

• Orienteering [orienteering]: Craftable tools for find your place in the world
• Easy Vending Machines [easyvend]: Buy and sell items from other players in vending and depositing machines or place your own
• Flying Carpet [flying_carpet]: Fly over the world!
• Point Teleporter [teletool]: Teleport to whereever you point to
• Mirror of Returning [returnmirror]: Teleport back to a place you've been previously
• Pep: Player Effects Potions [pep]: Simple potions giving you useful or harmful status effects
• Realistic Suffocation [real_suffocation]: Lose breath while you're stuck in solid blocks
• Slow Eater [sloweater]: After eating, player must wait 5 seconds before eating again
• Mesecons Windows [mesecons_window]: Mesecons extension which adds blocks which turn transparent when powered
• Magic Beans—Wuzzy’s Fork [magicbeans_w]: Find magic beans, jump higher, run faster, fly, plant a giant beanstalk
• Watering Can [wateringcan]: Water your farming lands

Map generation

• Rail corridors + treasures [tsm_railcorridors]: Simple underground corridor systems with rails and a few treasure chests
• Pyramids + treasures [tsm_pyramids]: Generates pyramids in the desert, with random rooms, treasures and dangers inside
• Dungeon Treasure Chests [tsm_chests_dungeon]
• Spawn Builder [spawnbuilder]: Spawns a basic starter platform, useful for empty worlds
• Indestructible Bedrock Layer [bedrock2]

Blocks / decorative items

• Color Cubes [colorcubes]: Colorful blocks
• Minetest Game Plus [mtg_plus]: Lots of new craftable decoration blocks for Minetest Game
• Slime blocks and liquids [slimenodes]: Sticky, bouncy, gooey slimey blocks.
• Dice [dice2]: Funny dice which rotate randomly

GUI mods

• Help modpack [doc]: Learn everything what you always wanted to know about the game, blocks, items and more
• HUD bars [hudbars]: Replace the statbars with progress bar-like bars
• Inventory Icon [inventory_icon]: See your inventory fullness
• Show Wielded Item [show_wielded_item]: Show the name of the wielded item above hotbar
• Simple Fast Inventory Buttons [sfinv_buttons]: Buttons for Minetest Game's inventory screen

Mod development tools

These mods are for mod developers:

• Schematics Editor [schemedit]: Create, load, place and edit schematics
• Perlin Explorer [perlin_explorer]: Experiment with Perlin noises and visualize them with nodes
• L-System Tree Utility [ltool]: Helps you understanding and creating L-system trees for Luanti
• Get Item [getitem]: Quickly get all items of the game (even those hidden in the Creative Inventory)
• Find Biome [findbiome]: Find a biome and teleport to it

Architecture mods

These mods are not really useful in their own, but they can be depended on by modders to get a framework for interesting features.

• Mana [mana]: Players get a new mana attribute which can be used for magical spells, items, etc.
• Player Effects [playereffects]: Status effects for players
• Central Message [central_message]: Write a message in the center of the screen
• Galaxy Skybox [galaxybox]: Turn the sky into deep space
• Select Item [select_item]: Item selection dialog
• Player Physics API [playerphysics]: Makes it possible for multiple mods to modify player physics without conflict

Abandoned mods

These are mods which either never got completed, I no langer care much about about finishing them or they simply have become obsolete:

• Basic HUD [basic_hud]: (no usage/demand seen since years)
• Player Model [playermodel]: Player model as a standalone mod (obsolete since 5.0.0; MTG comes with player_api mod)
• Shifted Blocks [shifted_blocks] (lost interest after 1st release)
• Pseudo-Nodes [pseudonodes] (lost interest)
• Surprise Blocks [tsm_surprise] (lost interest)
• The Origin [origin] (somewhat deprecated by Spawn Builder)
• Disable sneak glitch [no_sneak_glitch] (obsolete)
• Allow zooming [allow_zoom] (obsoleted in 5.0.0)
• Player Tools [playertools] (I believe this is my very first mod. Now outdated, clashes with core commands, I am no longer happy with the command structure and there are tons of better command mods out there)
• Treasurer [treasurer]: Random treasure/loot selection framework

Work on Luanti

I have contributed various smaller and larger features and bugfixes to Luanti over the years, although I am not a core developer. Some of the more notable changes include:

• Various improvements to the Lua API documentation
• Made builtin translatable
• Complete rework of Minimal development test to include many more useful and structured things to test, including example nodes, tools, items, commands etc. Renamed it to Development Test
• German translation
• Lua API improvements:
  • Fix broken pathfinder (minetest.find_path)
  • Fix incorrect rotation of falling nodes
  • Decoupled liquid/flowingliquid drawtypes from liquidtype
  • Allow to modify and disable fall damage per-player with armor group
  • Item group disable_repair
  • Added disable_settings to game.conf
  • wallmounted support for plantlike and plantlike_rooted nodes
  • minetest.is_creative_enabled
  • Item eating sound
  • New paramtype2: 4dir and color4dir

See my list of closed PRs for a complete list (note: not all of these were actually accepted).

My development philosophy

For most of my serious (i.e. non-exerimental) games and mods, these are my rough development principles:

• Always use real, proper releases with version numbers. No "Rolling release" because that's hostile to the user
• I use features up to the latest stable engine version, but not beyond. I don't use experimental engine features where the player would have to manually compile the engine first
• Once a new Luanti release drops, I start using its features. I don't wait 5 years until Debian finally has it, too