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EEU began with the fact that we needed to make EE in HTML5 (for obvious reasons) and that in doing so it would be a great opportunity to refresh the game by fixing all the problems it had that couldn't be fixed without breaking worlds. That meant improving the physics, and recreating the pallete of blocks to remove redundancy and have fewer but more versatile blocks.

And if we were doing a refresh/reboot of the game, it would also be an opportunity to update the graphics. In EE the tiles are 16 pixels, and the game is 500 pixels tall, which is very small on most screens, and only keeps getting smaller with higher resolutions. Ideally the game should fit any size screen, which is what everyone is used to with modern web games. Vector graphics were the obvious choice, though they came at the cost of losing some of the charm the old graphics have.

Keep in mind that EEU is still very much in a work-in-progress state. The physics work but haven't been adjusted to be good, only a few blocks have been added and some of their graphics are just "good enough" and meant to be updated later, and the interface is just the minimum functionality as well as being experimental in the case of the sidebars and chat. Though complaints about the lack of features and such are understandable given that it's been two years in development.

EE was an app on Facebook back in September 2010, and I think I remember hearing about Chris Benjaminsen working with Facebook on something later on, so clearly Facebook was well aware of the game and never did anything about it using the smileys. The main issue with them is that they're obviously not usable at larger sizes.

Nintendo of course is a different matter and not worth even the slightest risk.

With any of the graphics it could be seen as weird and cheap to use unoriginal graphics when original versions can easily be made (and for the most part they have been made).

It's on the #change-logs channel of the EEU Discord server, as well as on the EEU wiki. The current version is 0.2.47

The idea I've had for a while is that the smileys are flat, but they're in a 3D world where the blocks are basically cubes. Kind of like Paper Mario (though obviously with less depth to the world):

Years ago I was actually planning to make a "2.5D" client for EE with that concept but I never started it. I might throw together an image tomorrow to demonstrate the idea.

That reminds me of the coin graphic :

I'm pretty sure today, September 17th, is the date that marks 10 years since my brothers and I found Everybody Edits!

mm yes

(It's finally done now)

If you say "period" right you can make it 2 syllables

Happy birthday Everybody Edits!

The original version isn't playable now, but you can play ByteArray's HTML5 remake-ish thing HaxEE to get a taste of what it was like (though with modern versions of physics and graphics).

Not currently. 600x400 is the largest size that fits comfortably in the game at the native size and it will cost 24000 energy, or almost 6 weeks of energy.

No, 50 for each dimension. So the next size up from 50x50 would be 100x50 and 50x100, then 100x100 and so on.

The icons will soon be custom made, but for now they are using Font Awesome, and ByteArray couldn't find an icon good enough for God Mode so he used the helicopter as a joke.