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Contentplate – Turning Game Configuration Upside Down

Balancing a game means touching numbers constantly – and traditionally every tweak meant a code change, a redeploy, and a developer in the loop. Discover how Contentplate hands those values back to our game designers, lets them edit live formulas instead of constants, and applies changes like in Git.

SHARD Format – A New Take on Minecraft Region Data

Being used to the Bukkit environment, worlds and schematics are fundamentally different. But we figured they don't have to be. Discover how we fused both into one new, optimized format: SHARD.

ConfigPositions – A Fusion of Configuration and Level Data

Managing configuration data, that corresponds to different locations in a level, has always been a hassle in Minecraft. Level and configuration data can get out of sync or the configuration data was set incorrectly from the beginning. Read more about how ConfigPositions make that easier.

Our new Git Branching Model

Creating meaningful branches in Git to support you in your workflow is hard. We used git-flow for the last years but finally decided it would be time to switch to another branching model.

High Performance Map Displays

When we decided to further utilize the possibilities that Minecraft maps provide us, we quickly came to realize, that Bukkit's API regarding maps is far too limited in its scope. Here's how we implemented our own map API instead!

Hello World

We will need some time to set this blog up and to write our first real post. Read where you can get information about us in the meantime!