Week 8 playing random EE worlds until EE! releases

N1KF · 2025-01-20 00:59:59

▼Day 19

#170: boss off - karolp - PW-0vkpsnVa0I

A small boss from 2011. Strangely, the code is right at spawn. All the coins and crown are unreachable. I like the Grass and New Year's decorations, but the Spring grass and the Summer umbrella in the boss entrance is a bit excessive.

tags: boss, free code
coins: 0/5
crown: impossible
code: get

#171: wip friends can join - flobalob - PW-0vypSFAcEI

Well, it doesn't say non-friends can't join...

It's a board of Monopoly. While the game board logo appears to be bot-generated, the rest appears to be pixel art which I like. There's nothing to do but land on the Free Parking space right as you join.

tags: art, blocked off, monopoly, party game, unfinished

#172: Under Construction - ttf12 - PW-0yP4ToBcEI

A strange, incomplete world. You start in the top left in a cavernous-like area. You can go into the colourful rainbow glow which has win trophy, and an invisible portal to a rainbow room. Outside the rainbow room are colored glass blocks distanced from mechanical structures, which might be lasers. Going further takes you into a room with a jetpack and Prism Shield (Protection and Fly effect respectively), but the jetpack can't be reached because it's too high.

Alternatively, from the sky caves, you can fall to the bottom. There is a hilly terrain with some floating platforms.

I don't know the intent of the world creator, but it may have been a cave world with sci-fi elements.

tags: explore, unfinished, upgrades
difficulty: Easy
win: 5.58s

#173: free edit - tabby22350 - PW-1-OtaxlcEI

A free edit world. The checkerboard floor, and Clay background look nice together. However, there is large text mentioning a reproductive organ for no apparent world.

tags: explore, free edit, sandbox, text, vulgar

#174: boss to copy - paulinha1289 - PW-1-gunQCbEI

A small 2011 boss. The ID for this one has "gun" in it. Once again, getting the coins and code requires good timing with a second player with god mode. I do not however intend to keep doing trying this.

I like the use of Glass, Pastel, Factory, and Canvas.

coins: 0/3
code: impossible (hard with keys)

#175: samrskell - samrskel - PW-152EgvcbEI

Some hills and a floating island. The floating island has 7 coins and a house. Although you can land on the side as you spawn, you can't do anything else.

On the surface, there's an opening letting you go underground. Down there are two coins and some water. Unfortunately you can't escape because of where the dots are placed.

For some reason, the sun is green.

tags: interior, outdoors, underground
difficulty: easy
coins: 2/9

#176: code 0000 - marek63 - PW-15UOxPGbUI

The MrShoe hole world with some edits. There are coins, another island, random Farm blocks, Checker blocks, a crown, and lines of arrows. The win trophy is also reachable with a small dot trail. The background is made up of grey Basic blocks. I like all the small creative touches.

tags: home world variant, outdoors, non-linear:
coins: 14/14
bcoins: 2/2
crown: get
win: 2.40s

That's all of the PW-0 worlds! Now we're on PW-1 worlds.

carbon3715, John

N1KF · 2025-01-21 00:59:40

▼Day 20

#177: Coins World - juuliaah - PW-15wKs4_bEI

This world does not in fact have coins. It's just two odd-looking monsters.

tags: monster

#178: Untitled World - magogi - PW-175hKRObEI

A world starting with a coaster that doesn't completely work. On the right side, there are bunch of coins and dots. Unfortunately, if you fall you can't get back up. This makes some of the coins hard to get, but I did it pretty quickly by going diagonally to get the hardest to reach coins.

On the bottom, there are some keys and key doors. A blue key door room has a crown and some more coins. If the doors close on you, you can't escape until another player presses the key.

tags: coin spam, key softlock, nonsense
difficulty: easy
coins: 58/58
bcoins: 6/6
crown: get

#179: Epic face - djklay - PW-17rJfEvbEI

Bot-generated art of an epic face. There are various crowns colouring the face, so they're pretty easy to get (mainly around the top).

tags: bot art, meme
difficulty: easy
crown: get

#180: zombie world - tibi3511 - PW-18nIw5obUI

A 2013 zombie world. Unfortunately, as a world from that time, it has no Zombie Effect, requiring you to use Zombie Potions which aren't in EEO or PixelWalker.

There's one area with lots of coins that is possible, but tricky to reach without being a zombie. You either have to boost up doing a hook precise hook jump, or boost up to the floating heart on the right and jump off of it.

I like the variety of buildings and random details, like a zombie with an axe.

tags: coin spam, exterior, interior, outdoors, sky, zombie
difficulty: easy
coins: 471/488
bcoins: 39/41
other: check potions

#181: Prison - wolfsblood - PW-18zuV0kbEI

A prison world. I like the first room, with colour-coded cells with the matching keys. The second room where you must tight fit jump into chairs and tables is a bit time-wastey. Next is the coin-filled stairwell, which technically requires enough coins to pass, but you'll probably get enough just by jumping up it. There are two side rooms with prisoners and a mining area. I appreciate how well-rounded this prison is compared to the other prison levels.

Finally, at the top there is some art of two humans. There's a room with a...heater? It has magma and a yellow Mineral block. Let me know if you figure out what it is. The last room has a bunch of blue coins, and you need them all to reach the win trophy.

Speeding through, I beat the world in under a minute. A good challenge would be trying to get as few gold coins as possible. Fun level, if you like collecting obscene amounts of coins.

tags: canada, coin spam, human, interior, key softlock, prison
coins: 339/339
bcoins: 146/146
win: 58.85s

John

John · 2025-01-21 15:52:00

I love these SO MUCH! Which world has been your favorite so far?

N1KF wrote:

which once again means it won't load in PixelWalker.

Will be fixed soon(tm)!

N1KF wrote:

However, there is large text mentioning a reproductive organ for no apparent world.

Banned this one from being playable in PixelWalker, thanks for pointing this one out.

N1KF · 2025-01-22 03:55:57

John wrote:

I love these SO MUCH! Which world has been your favorite so far?

That's hard to answer, but I'd go with nexus221's "HighSchool RP Remake".

▼Day 21

#182: nasumies - luksyfearkirill919 - PW-19XR6j0bEI

A world where you go up arrows, and jump off to get blue coins. The background is odd. There appears to be remnants of letters covered by the Basic blue backgrounds added later. The letter on the bottom is definitely M, but the rest is harder to read. On the top, it looks like R and E are halfway cut off, but the third character is unclear. Probably either a dash, or the number 4 or 9.

The name is also odd. What's a nasumi? Well, Nasumi is a Japanese girl's name. Doesn't make it any more clear to me though.

tags: coin spam, nonsense
difficulty: easy
bcoins: 483/483

#183: 3 magic genorators - natedog36 - PW-19m0hyTbEI

Some genorators [sic] for magic. They're fun to go through. I prefer the purple one, since it's a bit less repetitive than the white metal one. The purple one goes in lots of loops. You can also visit some buildings for a change of pace.

Surprisingly well designed. I expected an area you could get stuck with the keys, or some way to permanently miss coins, but it looks like that isn't the case. (I reset once thinking I missed some...)

This world is from mid-2012. You'd expect this to be older, since the newest blocks used are coin doors.

SYSTEM: LICTOR just got a magic coin! Maximum energy increased by 666.

tags: arrow tubes, automatic, interior, magic
difficulty: easy
coins: 914/914
bcoins: 224/224
crown: get

#184: Micro Worlds [WIP] - firerob - PW-1BKeKrFcEI

What looks like a compilation of several smaller worlds. Unfortunately only one was ever made, so I'll review that.

The world was created October 1, 2017, so the first and only area might be a Halloween themed area. This area looks excellent. It's a wonderfully dark and creepy, elegant castle. On the bottom right there's some kinda angel thing with an eye, horns, a halo, and a claw. Behind the clouds, there's a large bleeding eyeball. Nothing I haven't seen before as a Kirby player.

The gameplay is alright. A few minis feel somewhat lackluster, though I like how near the roof you go through the same area with different team effects after doing different minis. Upon reaching the top, the level ends, but it doesn't have any rewards there so it's probably unfinished.

At the bottom right, you can get stuck. Right next to it, there's a pit with a crown. In PixelWalker you're stuck, but in EEO there's a poison effect killing you in a minute and robot NPCs asking why you went down there.

This sadly only has 12 plays. But YOU can play it!

tags: castle, clouds, minis, outdoors, spooky, unfinished
difficulty: medium
crown: get

#185: Ride-twentyonepilots - suisunday - PW-1E9A1HEcUI

This is our second Ultra Wide world. The first was "World 1-1", which I failed to notice. The description is "Ride by twenty one pilots, that simple".

Our first complete dedicated music world! It's alright, though I'm not a fan of this song, at no fault of the world creator. The harmony is a bit repetitive and EE's piano is not flattering for it.

If you're playing in PixelWalker, some of the notes will sound messed up. Make sure to play this on the most up-to-date ArchivEE 2.1 test version.

tags: music, twenty one pilots
difficulty: none
win: 0.00s

#186: CODE IS 3441 - sastroop - PW-1IhQvBibkI

A grey building labelled NPD. I don't know what it is, maybe a police department, weather station, or radio station? In the first room there are two chairs separated by glass. I can't tell what's in the middle floor, but on the top floor it looks like there are figures. Up on top, there's a colorful satellite dish or something similar.

tags: free code, interior, social

John, Edilights

N1KF · 2025-01-23 02:59:20

▼Day 22

#187: Stairs and Minigames - awesomeryan - PW-1J84HyNbUI

A stairs and boxed minis level. Now I can excuse some stairs, but this level goes out of its way to include zig-zagging towers. In total, the stairs took me over ten minutes. Than you have boxed minis, but nothing unique enough to be described.

The best part is the sprite artwork on the minimap, but even that's a little scuffed, because somebody failed to realize that fully black blocks are transparent on the minimap.

tags: boxed minis, epic face, mario, smiley, sprite, stairs, windows
difficulty: easy

coins: 41/41
bcoins: 6/6
win: 1018.75s

#188: fun house - skittlesmadman - PW-1JkoYDAbEI

Not a funhouse, this is more of a pirate house. There's some water at the bottom, and some platforms with arrows to jump between them.

Getting the coins and crown can be quickly done at the level start, but climbing back up is tricky. It does feel a bit random with all those arrows pointing different directions.

tags: climb, interior
difficulty: easy
coins: 2/2
crown: get

#189: RPG - shipower - PW-1Jq6SbGa0I

A role-playing level city. Unfortunately the only spawn is blocked off from everything. I respect the attention to making so many buildings even if they suffer a case of Same Room Syndrome. My favorite is the colorful rainbow building. (Can you tell I like rainbows yet?)

There's also a floating island with a castle which is quite unusual. I haven't visited a city like that yet.

tags: blocked off, castle, city, floating island, hospital, hotel, interior, outdoors, prison, roleplay, social, unfinished
difficulty: impossible
coins: 0/36
crown: impossible
win: impossible

#190: Untitled World - sonic424 - PW-1KPRmyzb0I

An incomplete world that starts outdoors, then goes into a green marble building.

tags: interior, mostly empty, outdoor, unfinished

#191: 5 STAR HOTEL - boltxp - PW-1KrF5eMbUI

A hotel...? Well no, it's just a floating pirate ship, too distant to reach. The boat looks nice, better than most of the blobby boats I see in EE.

tags: mostly empty, pirate, unfinished

#192: anton - antonrd - PW-1Ksb1X3a0I

An old 2011 world. There are some basic minis that lead to nowhere in particular, but the highlight is the art. Specifically, the bouncy balls with trails. The smileys are a bit wonky, but that adds more charm. There's a and fusion that's not even 16x16 pixels. Might as well make your smileys unique.

The crown is probably possible with a Potion of Levitation.

tags: art, boxed minis, pokemon, smiley, sprite, windows

#193: Untitled World - skydoesmc - PW-1KzURdzbUI

A small 2013 world. There are some chairs, tables, very smashed text saying "MINECR"? That's the only thing I could get out of that text. Well, the owner is probably named after SkyDoesMinecraft.

There's a green tube-like structure that goes to the bottom, with a bunch of colorful bricks. The coins down there would be obtainable, if only you didn't spawn stuck in the corner!

The owner of this level has a rare "mouse" ID, meaning they're from a website like Mousebreaker, or wherever.

tags: blocked off, social, nonsense
coins: 0/16
bcoins: 0/10

John

N1KF · 2025-01-24 00:32:43

▼Day 23

#194: Untitled World - windseeker - PW-1LJkrg6bEI

A small stairs level. I appreciate a level like that doesn't drag itself out.

The world starts with a portal, but there's none at the end. Possibly it was meant to take the player in a loop.

tags: allows key spam, stairs
difficulty: easy

#195: TROLLS HQ - troller1234 - PW-1LaaPIYbUI

With 482 plays, the name "TROLLS HQ", and the owner troller1234 you'd expect an expect troll headquarters. Instead, it's an empty world with a splatter of red plastic blocks which makes me wonder what happened here.

tags: mostly empty, nonsense

#196: Untitled World - camilobomp - PW-1LbOi3LbEI

A world that's unfortunately impossible to start, because it relies on a non-functioning portal. It takes you through some platforming, a dot trail, then a boss. Even with the keys triggered, I don't think you can reach the winner's room without potions.

tags: boss, minis,
difficulty: impossible
win: impossible
code: impossible

#197: Country - danydaninutzu - PW-1LehKlsbUI

Some country flags. I see Italy, Chad or Romania (could also be Andorra or Moldova without coat of arms), France, Spain (without the coat of arms), and United States (simplified). Neat flags.

tags: art, chad, country, flag, france, italy, romania, spain, united states

#198: art & stuff - joyouse - PW-1LnPKiBbUI

Another low gravity world. There's a Laika smiley, a rainbow, and some random blocks to jump up. One of them has a win trophy. There's also an odd blob of Metal blocks with a crown in the top right, and on the bottom left there is a lovely autumn forest, with decorations like fences and barrels.

tags: laika, outdoors, sandbox, smiley, sprite
difficulty: easy
win: 1.46s
crown: 6s

#199: alexland - hyftducdidydi9ydidtd - PW-1LrEav6bEI

A very small boss world. Really, it's even smaller than it needs to be for the world size. Whoever made this must've had guts to make such an itty-bitty boss world. It has had 0 plays since 2012, so the microscopic boss was probably never tried.

tags: boss

#200: Perfect Coy Smiley - coy71 - PW-1M5PVPQbEI

For all the smiley art we've seen so far, this is a fitting 200th world. A perfect Coy smiley. A sign gives you permission to copy the artwork, so feel free to do that if you want. Nicely done, coy71.

tags: smiley, sprite
difficulty: easy
crown: 1s

200 worlds complete!

John

N1KF · 2025-01-25 02:59:43

▼Day 24

#201: My Home World - wunarg - PW-1Mg4dIncEI

Home world with some blocks missing.

tags: home world variant
difficulty: easy
coins: 1/1
bcoins: 1/1

#202: Me Shift Entry - musicman - PW-1MvwoxUa0I

This is the first world from 2010, being one of the 7,548 with a date in ArchivEE 2.1 test and the 4,497th oldest total. This doesn't include the worlds that are missing or have very old IDs, such as those ending in "AAA".

Here I face a dilemma. There's a swear word in the world's actual title, but at the same time, I've dedicated myself to not swearing. Here I chose not to include it, because censored words were used to prevent worlds from showing up in the lobby.

This level is a fun little Shift entry. There are four corners divided by colorful triangles, each corner having arrows or dots to make each one different to navigate. You get crowns from reaching the end, even if you got none of the coins.

This is also the first bot-related level, and the third world whose owner I'm familiar with (the others being groundpound and grensnez). You might know musicman from his very popular music worlds.

tags: abstract, non-linear, shift
coins: 6/6
crown: get

#203: awesome world - geekyminer1610 - PW-1N58B1MbEI

A small world filled with arrow tubes and Secret blocks. After reaching branching paths, there are multiple paths to take. Only one takes you to the end, but you can force yourself to go that way in their other paths by holding the right keys.

tags: arrow tubes, automatic, coin spam
difficulty: easy
coins: 155/155
difficulty: easy

#204: minecraft error map - gamerninja - PW-1N5Dzd_bUI

Another world that has seemingly nothing to do with Minecraft besides the Brown Bricks. First you start in towers with mostly unreachable coins. Then you're tasked with pressing the green key and quickly jumping up stairs.

Speedrunning while a second player to spams the keys is a bit satisfying. I almost got sub-5 seconds, but not quite.

As you spawn in the top left, you can get a few extra blue coins as you fall. The best I could get is 34, but more might be possible. All coins would be possible with the Potion of Levitation.

tags: coin spam, minis, timer
difficulty: easy
coins: 9/65
bcoins: 34/65
win: 5.16s

#205: tower climb part 1 - raddo2020 - PW-1NJpnEFbkI

A small world. The first section has you go through a few zig-zagging tubes. The second has what might be our first appearance of block people, those little characters with blocks for faces. The third is stairs, though these use key gates, so it's a timer challenge instead of the usual key door stairs.

tags: block people, part of series, timer,
win: 8.29s

#206: Death Run! - snowww - PW-1NMpWBHcEI

An odd level which requires a second player to have god mode to trigger global switches. How it works:

Once you have all 6 blue coins, the second player goes in an underground boost system with 7 switches, 0 to 6. Each switch is separated by boosts and a one-way, letting you hit them at any time, but always in order. Once you flip all switches, and the 7 switch is activated (not found in this pipeline) you can switch them all again and go back to the start.

On the top, there are some minis with global switch doors and gates. Unfortunately, they can only be reached when the 1 switch is activated. The goal is to get all the coins and not fall off as the switches are flipped. At the end, there's a crown and a 7 switch, letting any switchers go back to the start.

Creative idea, but it suffers some major problems. First off, at the bottom, once you've flipped all the switches you're stuck until somebody gets to the end and the 7 switch is activated. Second, just to get past spawn, you need either the 0 switch non-flipped (to get into the boosts), or the 1 switch flipped (to get into the top gameplay). The switch system can be broken by leaving the level while only some switches are flipped. It could be fun to see the idea improved and made more playable.

tags: endurance, multiplayer
difficulty: impossible
bcoins: 0/6
crown: impossible

John

N1KF · 2025-01-25 19:59:35

Just doing two tiny worlds, because I am very busy today and probably won't have time to do more.

Day 25

#207: daryldixion - daryldixon - PW-1N_7vQwbUI

Colorful columns of bricks. You can get on the top left right at spawn, but I don't think you can jump to the other side. But maybe it's possible.

#208: Key Boss - janissimonka - PW-1O2WX3ob0I

A "key boss". Not really a boss, since the players press the keys and all the platforms are key doors. There are no rewards for survival, so I guess it's just for fun.

tags: boss, multiplayer

John

N1KF · 2025-01-30 05:02:11

What if you: wanted to play EE, but God said: your two crummy old laptops aren't gonna charge.

That's what happened. I wasn't prepared, and I lost access to both EEO and the internet. The 25 day streak ended right there—no more technicalities about being three hours late. I'm back to this computer where I can play EE just fine.

Missing a few days seems to have caused a cosmic glitch that created three bizarre meta worlds sharing the same ID, listed below.

▼Day ???

#???: Why I started this - N1KF - 799604

I started this for several main reasons.

One, to show people that EE will still have players up until EE! happens. People returning to the forums will have tangible proof that somebody's still playing the game, which is a tardigrade that can withstand any nearly condition. Two, to organize and catalog the overlooked creations left behind over the decade of EE. Three, for the funny number to go up, and have it as a symbol of loyalty or insanity.

I've been inspired by projects to find significant Minecraft world seeds, or attempts to have every Super Mario Maker world completed. These are community projects, and as such, I considered that others could try to help me. I also considered the possibility of doing levels out of order, or looking for something more tangible such as the win trophy in every level. Ultimately I left it as a basic solo start in January.

As mentioned in world #18 (Day 3), I did a trial run of a few dozen worlds, which was back in May 2024. I might be able to get the commentary back from it eventually. The idea to give worlds tags and descriptors comes from my old idea back in 2019 :

N1KF wrote:

Yes. But what would make it even better is if it could have tags edited by anybody. There are tag-based image boards with hundreds of thousands of tagged and rated images that show that, yes, people do enjoy organizing stuff! If we could get even 1,000 great levels tagged, that would be an extremely helpful start for future EEO players.

Sure, the website with all worlds is a bit redundant with the EE Web Archive from 2022, so that part would be redundant. But I want to revisit the tagging idea. Don't underestimate the significance of random posts I made five years earlier! THEY'RE ALL FORESHADOWING!

#???: What I learned - N1KF - 799604

This would be a task I could not complete alone. After Day 12 I wanted to keep up an average of ten worlds a day, but this didn't work out. It takes a while, and it's a bit inconvenient to do all this. I have to verify stuff like coin count and win time (which requires playing in EEO) to make sure I'm not inflating any scores. This can be useful data, and I see value in recording it, but a forum thread alone isn't very efficient.

After the distress of losing my 25 day streak, it was a little relieving not having to focus on the daily grind. I thought it was set up so perfectly, at the first day of the year (if 3 hours late by UTC standards). But the "perfection" of daily commitment has been lost, and perhaps it was for better. While writing this post it occurred to me I could just turn this into an at least weekly thing, so I can just put "Week 5" instead of Day Whatever without losing that funny rising number title. Who knows, maybe I might feel like playing even more worlds without the pressure to meet the daily deadline? We've already seen a few cases where I posted two or three worlds just because I was rushed.

#???: What I was missing - N1KF - 799604

More importantly, playing old worlds was something I wasn't doing alone. I returned to PixelWalker, and to my shock, it was still active (by modern EE standards). And I learned you could join levels, just by writing legacy: in the world ID—and people were playing these! They needed no prompting or a long-term challenge, just a convenient way to access them. It seems like a missed opportunity to have people play these high-quality worlds, have me join them, and in this thread I just...ignore them. I will probably broaden the subject to allow these as "random" worlds. (I don't decide what others play, after all.)

Additionally, MartenM's Realms bot and website lets players quickly join from hundreds of player-made worlds, with automatic leaderboards! You can tell some players have been very dedicated to this, and I myself have put hours into doing this. If only there were a way to combine the fun and convenience of leaderboards with legacy worlds...

That's where I got an idea. I'm making a bot in Python. What if needs to do is connect to Legacy worlds, and make a leaderboard on a website. Days ago I figured out how to make it view the lobby and connect. I still need to decipher client messages and do things like timers for each player, but I have a bit of experience with working out data structures, and timers shouldn't be too complex. Hopefully something functional will be done by the end of February. If not then that will be very embarrassing.

I will continue playing worlds as normal, but I will be more flexible to make this more fun for myself. I might allow additional worlds that show up in PixelWalker, and change to weekly worlds if needed.

Also in February, I will hopefully finish a bot that makes it easier to play these legacy worlds in PixelWalker with leaderboards. This means we can ALL be playing random EE worlds until EE! releases!

John

John · 2025-01-30 11:53:54

Sounds like a great idea! Excellent post and relieved that you missed a day. Should be fun and not feel like a chore! Adding tags sounds like an amazing idea too by the way, we'll have some discussions on that one.

Feel free to ask if you need help figuring out the protocol. Here's the link.
https://github.com/PixelWalkerGame/Protocol

Here's the source for Marten's bot API if that helps too.
https://github.com/MartenM/PixelPilot

N1KF

MartenM · 2025-01-30 16:52:08

N1KF wrote:

That's where I got an idea. I'm making a bot in Python. What if needs to do is connect to Legacy worlds, and make a leaderboard on a website. Days ago I figured out how to make it view the lobby and connect. I still need to decipher client messages and do things like timers for each player, but I have a bit of experience with working out data structures, and timers shouldn't be too complex. Hopefully something functional will be done by the end of February. If not then that will be very embarrassing.

I dabbled with the idea of rating legacy worlds too. However, the reason that I didn't is because I got quite some pushback when I launched realms initially. Now imagine if I started 'claiming' legacy worlds...
Be curious to see what you create!

Not sure if you are in the PW discord but I'm available for questions about my API there.

N1KF

John · 2025-01-31 13:17:48

MartenM wrote:

Now imagine if I started 'claiming' legacy worlds...

I don't think this would be an issue actually because they are already locked underneath the original owner.

N1KF

N1KF · 2025-02-02 04:00:18

OK I apparently did not consider the logistics enough, and assumed I'd have already played some levels this week. But Day 25, the last day I did this was in the previous week. And today I was busy until the last hour., so I was a bit late. With more freedom to play worlds whenever I like, not procrastinating is something I will have to learn from this. Hopefully the Legacy Leaderboards (or whatever I decide to call it) will help.

▼ Week 5

#209: Cool Art - sillly - PW-1OAEkU2bUI

A week ago, back on Day 25, I briefly went into this sprite art world, expecting to quickly review it. However, something caught my eye, and addressing it would take a bit too long for the rush I was in. It's a Shroob smiley, from Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time. There have been not one, but two suggestions for a Shroob smiley on these forums (216325, 471594). I want to know, is there a reason for this? Are Shroobs that popular?

The other artworks are a Super Mushroom and a Boo. The Super Mushroom is a bit oddly colored. You'd think the world owner would use Basic red or Metal yellow to colour it, but the block choice makes it look rather dark.

The crown and win trophy are right next to the start. I can't precisely time the crown, but since it's the same distance from spawn as the win trophy I'll just assume it's the same as the win time.

tags: gallery, mario, mario & luigi, smiley, sprite, super mario bros 3, super mario world
win: 0.42s
crown: 0.42s (estimate)

#210: parour race - richman95 - PW-1OhUs1vbkI

The world title says it's a parour [sic] race, but this isn't a race at all and it's barely parkour. You jump up the ledges to the top, then you reach the crown. The rest is unfinished.

The start has all three keys pressed, but they do nothing but open up the doors letting you start the level. This is rather bizarre, since in platforming race levels like this, the platforms are usually made of key doors, with keys at the end to send losers back. I'm guessing the owner didn't think that far ahead.

tags: climb, mostly empty
difficulty: easy
crown: 8s

#211: I WANT MONKEY! - wuhaohan - PW-1OiT1dHcEI

I was expecting more coins, but I guess that's why the world owner wants money.

How do I classify this? This is too open-ended to be minis, and too abstract to be an adventure level. In the top layer you go through a small slow dot maze, jump across some platforms with keys opening them up. In the bottom layer there's a hover, another maze, and a small key puzzle.

Strangely there's no end point, even though there's enough room to put one and the level being made well after coin doors, win trophies, and crowns were added. So, just do what you can to collect all the coins. If you skip the first one, you can't go back for it. You can also get stuck at two parts if somebody spams the key.

I wrote this entire description, and just now realized the title says monkey, not money. I have no clue how it's related to the level.

tags: allows key spam, coin hunt, layers, maze, non-linear
coins: 4/4
bcoins: 1/1
difficulty: easy

#212: Untitled World - kodekpl - PW-1OtrxX4a0I

I respect a level I can barely make sense of. Really keeps you aware of how much of the world you don't see, and don't understand. This 2011 level has an assortment of weird stuff I can't quickly summarize.

You start in the top left, with 12 coins surrounded by blue key doors. The doors are surrounded by another barrier, this time with Basic blocks, making me wonder why the blue key doors are there if opening takes you barely anywhere. There's a 5x5...smiley artwork? It has a yellow top half, a purple bottom half, blue eyes, and a red mouth. Might just be abstract art at this point. The top right has red and blue keys, and some rectangles.

In the middle, there's another room with coins and a crown. To reach it, you need the red key. It also has a green key which opens up the bottom. The red key also opens keys around some red blocks, but they are too high to be used as platforms.

The bottom is a loop of arrows around a rectangle.

tags: nonsense
coins: 12/25
crown: impossible

#213: PACMAN - loxmender1523 - PW-1P7e001bEI

Here comes Pac-Man, again! Will it actually be a Pac-Man World™ this time? The answer is yes! It's a blue maze mostly made of dots and key doors. Four random colorful background blocks are scattered through the maze, which puzzled me, but then I realized they represent the ghosts. Four coins are placed near the corners (but not where the Power Pellets actually go), and collecting all lets you go to the Ghost House where the win trophy is. This can barely be done in under 20 seconds.

This level not only allows key spam, but goes so far as to encourage it. The Ghost House has an arrow loop pushing you to the blue key. The key completely changes how you play the world—the walls disappear, making the maze paths a lot harder to travel without falling to the bottom. However, there are so many dots that it's not hard to use them as a ladder to reach the top of the maze. The key doors also open up the Ghost House and by extension the win trophy. This lets you beat the world much quicker, under 2 seconds from top, and under 1 from below (which is a bit harder).

There are some oddities in compared to the original maze. The top is missing a row of paths, but they couldn't fit without shrinking some of the walls. Some of the Basic blocks stick out could be more strategically placed while having the same effect, better imitating the original maze. In addition, the spawn is in a weird spot off the side instead of the place where Pac-Man usually starts. Besides all this, the maze is a solid recreation of the original.

This might be the densest description I've made so far.

tags: maze, multiplayer, pac-man
difficulty: easy
win: 0.92s

#214: . - dabs - PW-1P8qeQxbUI

Artwork of a Worker in god mode. As a enjoyer, I respect the world owner's taste in smileys. I also like that it's in god mode, which is rather uncommon in minimap sprite art. Crowns surround the smiley, and one is gotten automatically if you just fall from the world spawn.

However, there is one glaring issue. A big mess of blue scrambled all over the smiley, as if somebody did a quick trolling session. Talk about an Over Blue Level.

Lesson hopefully learned: always save before giving away edit.

crown: 0.00s

#215: sweet home sweet - soohan - PW-1P9y5V4bUI

Our second "sweet home" world. It's a variant of the MrShoe home world, with a bunch of small differences. You know what this calls for? Our first bulleted list! Two of them (the coin and spawn point) I didn't realize until opening another window with the original home world.

The main building now has an orange chimney.
The spawn has been moved from above a sign, to in front of the red building.
The middle island has been extended.
The coin has been removed.
The rightmost island, and the cliff with the trophy are missing.
The island backgrounds used for shading have been converted into foreground blocks. Funnily enough, it looks like some of them were converted to the wrong color, resulting in a rather noticeable green block.
The water has different backgrounds.

tags: home world variant

#216: BLACKSKY COME HERE - gerben - PWL2rNPSdqa0I

The first intentionally out of order world. Spike asked if this was the origin of difficulty tier levels, and while I don't know, the popularity suggests it could have influenced many players. The level is from January 2011, and it is the 51st most played world with a whopping 74,712 plays. Back on January 1, the very first non-default world here was a difficulty tiers level. It's a bit fitting I ended up playing another at the start of February.

This level features tiers of Greek gods, from Hestia to Zeus. The gameplay is skirting the line between "boxed minis" and "advanced platforming challenge", with overused minis like dot trails and a few hovers, but thankfully the level doesn't waste your time with stuff like filler tunnels or hook jumps. Most of the level is extended, raw platforming, which I like. It sometimes shakes things up with weird arrow challenges. There is one part where it's fairly easy to lose a small amount of progress by going back through the wall that serves as the checkpoint. This happened a few times, and while not major, it could be considered "poor level design" as a player put it.

The world has a gradual increase in difficulty. However, the last tier, Zeus, lacks any checkpoint walls. The section also has some extended jumps quick require speed, and arrows that require pacing yourself. This makes it a lot harder, and is where I spent much of my time in the level. It's a bit merciless, but it felt fair enough for me, as you can get the feel for where to make your jumps. Since the layers are accessed with dots, and not arrows, you can go back through the dot tunnel to get an overview of what's coming ahead.

The hilarious part, is that after winning, the crown is behind a 12 coin door. There are only 11 coins.

THREEWHEELDRIVE showed us you can get on top of the HESTIA text right as you spawn. The text is shaded with one-ways. If you want a minor challenge, try getting inside the one-way on the far right of the text, as 3WD did. Opayye also got all 11 coins and reached the end. Might as well make a note here for my leaderboard.

tags: difficulty tiers, greek mythology, horizontal parkour, layers, minis
difficulty: hard
coins: 11/11
crown: impossible
diamond: 0.00s

#217: RED TEAM - dtmfm1229 - PW-1PjsbwRbUI

Text saying RED TEAM. What red team? I have no idea. To get the win trophy, just climb to the middle of the E. It's mildly fun to speedrun.

tags: text
difficulty: easy
win: 2.60s

John

N1KF · 2025-02-09 04:01:03

Whoops, I messed up. I had a few worlds written for my a post, listed from what I played in PixelWalker. I forgot about that and closed the web browser, so I'll have to write some stuff again.

▼Week 6

#218: Worlds Easiest Game - muffin - PW3MAP_p5dbEI

A recreation of The World's Hardest Game, a top-down game where you dodge hazards and collect coins. Everybody Edits doesn't have moving hazards, making this the Worlds Easiest Game with no obstacles. You could also call it the Games Easiest World.

The gameplay is very basic—just collect coins to get through. Some rooms don't even have coins to collect. It gets bit repetitive with around thirty rooms, though they are quick to get through. The hardest part is getting the last three optional coins in the end room which requires a bit of fiddling with boost arrows.

I like the visuals of the light checkerboard. However, the world doesn't use the space very well, leading to the rooms being very close together while there's a bunch of unused blue space on the bottom and right sides. The win room uses the crowns to make an unpleasant brown on red design on the minimap.

The idea is a bit novel, but it doesn't make for a really interesting world.

The world ID has "MAP" in it.

tags: coin hunt, game recreation, no gravity
difficulty: 1/5
fun: 2/5
presentation: 2/5

win: 127.22s
coins: 99/99
crown: get

#219: Small Stairs v2 - jojohihi - PW5w6dq7hYa0I

A sign welcomes you to the "oldest unchanged world in EE", being from 2012 (aside from the sign itself). More specifically, the description says late 2012 or early 2013. Even if you ignore empty worlds, with over 72,000 saved worlds created in 2012's first half, over 146,000 from 2011 and over 6,000 worlds from 2010, I am inclined to say that no, this is definitely not the oldest. Probably thousands of those have probably been untouched since 2011, and probably a few from 2010. I also met the creator of the world, whose name in PixelWalker I forgot. To be fair, the world was created in January 2, 2011 which is very old, putting it in the earliest 9000 (under 0.1%) saved worlds in ArchivEE. That's more elusive than being untouched since 2012 IMO, but the world creator might not have realized the age of the world since it's not really clear in-game.

Anyways, the actual world is small stairs. I respect the world for making it small and not wasting too much of my time. The first staircase has coin spam, and it's impossible to get through the last section if you miss any. It makes me wonder why the coin door wasn't placed in the section with all the coins.

You can spam the keys, and the end reward being crown and keys shows that this is intentional. There are some key gates, which I assume are meant to stop players from jumping up while the keys are triggered, but some of them act as platforms to help players jump up. Unfortunately the entire world cannot be completed this way, which could be a fun twist on the stairs formula.

tags: allows key spam, coin skip softlock, stairs
difficulty: 1/5
fun: 1/5
presentation: 1/5

coins: 64/64
crown: under 40s

#220: Rapunzel - mihb - PWs-2FNebMa0I

Also made by Mega Lamb (Xenonetix). This world is based off the German fairy tale of "Rapunzel", but you probably knew that. After climbing Rapunzel's outrageously long hair, you travel through various rooms of the castle until you reach the treasure room at the top.

The artwork gives a lot of color and life to the house. However, it does look a bit off the more you look at it. The way certain blocks are mixed, like the Factory boxes and bloody Halloween blocks feel out of place you just look at the in-game screen. The rooms are inconsistent in scaling, especially the basement which is around double in scale. The floors are misaligned in the top half, which is usually not how buildings are built. It feels like the shape of the castle was decided before having the rooms make sense. As the level is a side view of the grasslands, the mountains look a bit too tall and prominent for the environment. The sun also looks like it was rushed. The scenery on the left side looks nice.

The minigames seem rather varied in size and shape and fairly original. A lot of them rely on gravity arrows serving as barriers, or covering the floor with up arrows, and I would have preferred a bit more space to run and jump. The only mini I actively disliked is in the second-last room (not including the win room), which is a mess to control having arrow walls combined with an arrow elevator.

Once you get 26 out of 50 coins—the maximum before the final room, which has 24, you get access to portals taking you to the top of the Rapunzel text. From there, you can do two tricky jumps to get the last two blue coins, which is pretty fun.

This is a quality world, the kind I'd expect to see in a campaign. The minis are well varied, if rather arrow-reliant, and most of the artwork is good. If I seem critical, that's because there's more to criticize in a quality level. It would be a waste to go this in-depth for criticism of a stairs level.

I was tempted to rate this 2/5 in difficulty, but I gave it 3/5 because some parts are tricky and John PixelWalker could not complete it.

tags: adventure, castle, fairy tale, fantasy, interior, minis, outdoors, sky, tower
difficulty: 3/5
fun: 4/5
presentation: 4/5

win: 668.44s
coins: 50/50
bcoins: 5/5
crown: get

#221: Oddus~ - unau - PWmhgPPgWFcEI

One of EE's finest worlds. This should have way more than 818 plays. Everybody who commented on this world after joining it in PixelWalker seemed to enjoy it.

The main mechanic is respawning at checkpoints. The gameplay stays strong, and keeps defying my expectation by using the checkpoints in different contexts, and revisiting the same areas with new awareness and context. All without the traditional progress gating methods like coins or one-use switches. Another cool thing is the bosses, which are brief but require a lot of precise inputs to reach the checkpoints. The fourth section uses a boss in a creative way that I won't spoil. There's even an extra mode once you complete the level, but I'll leave it up to players if they want to find out what it is.

The visuals look nice and clean, both in-game and on the minimap. I feel some levels try a bit too hard to make the foreground and background blend together, but this is not one of those worlds. The background and clear and black as night, giving you a nice silhouette of the level, which reminds me of older levels from before backgrounds. There's nothing wrong with using lots of backgrounds, but I appreciate this approach. Each level has distinct colors an shapes.

According to TURTLECAT1, the last section is unfortunately impossible in PixelWalker due to the reduced lava timer. I quit the level partway through the fourth section because of this, but maybe I will complete it another day once I can put it in the leaderboard.

This level is excellently designed. I strongly recommend trying it out.

tags: adventure, checkpoint puzzle, fantasy, metroidvania, puzzle,
difficulty: 4/5
fun: 5/5
presentation: 5/5

other: not fully explored

#222: ANDREJQ world - andrejq - PW-1PwOeiKbUI

ANDREJQ... That username seemed familiar, and reminded me of my Kongregate days back in 2012. Well, the world owner is registered on Facebook, and it turns out I was thinking of AndreiTan2000. No nostalgia rushes this week.

It might be hard to recognise at first, but this is a variant of the MrShoe home world. The big island is bulkier, there's more grass on the right, and there's an oddly shaped house. There are two coins inside, but you need god mode to reach the keys to open the doors. I like how colorful and weirdly shaped the house is.

tags: home world variant, outdoors, social

coins: 0/2

#223: Animals Only - lunathevampirewolf - PW-1QXazBpcUI

The description is "Please Join I'm Lonely". I doubt it'll help your loneliness playing it in 2025, and I might not quite be an animal, but I'll join anyway.

At the spawn, there's a vine taking you to a green structure with cloud blocks next to them. I don't know what it represents.

Past a 0 global switch door, which needs god mode to be reached, you can go up and reach a blue building of sort with cloud blocks. Based on the world name, owner name, and world contents, I'm guessing this is meant to be an animal role-play level, with the clouds representing pillows or something.

tags: blocked off, roleplay

John

2b55b5g · 2025-02-09 16:05:36

N1KF wrote:

Whoops, I messed up. I had a few worlds written for my a post, listed from what I played in PixelWalker. I forgot about that and closed the web browser, so I'll have to write some stuff again.
▼Week 6
#218: Worlds Easiest Game - muffin - PW3MAP_p5dbEI
A recreation of The World's Hardest Game, a top-down game where you dodge hazards and collect coins. Everybody Edits doesn't have moving hazards, making this the Worlds Easiest Game with no obstacles. You could also call it the Games Easiest World.
The gameplay is very basic—just collect coins to get through. Some rooms don't even have coins to collect. It gets bit repetitive with around thirty rooms, though they are quick to get through. The hardest part is getting the last three optional coins in the end room which requires a bit of fiddling with boost arrows.
I like the visuals of the light checkerboard. However, the world doesn't use the space very well, leading to the rooms being very close together while there's a bunch of unused blue space on the bottom and right sides. The win room uses the crowns to make an unpleasant brown on red design on the minimap.
The idea is a bit novel, but it doesn't make for a really interesting world.
The world ID has "MAP" in it.
tags: coin hunt, game recreation, no gravity
difficulty: 1/5
fun: 2/5
presentation: 2/5
win: 127.22s
coins: 99/99
crown: get
#219: Small Stairs v2 - jojohihi - PW5w6dq7hYa0I
A sign welcomes you to the "oldest unchanged world in EE", being from 2012 (aside from the sign itself). More specifically, the description says late 2012 or early 2013. Even if you ignore empty worlds, with over 72,000 saved worlds created in 2012's first half, over 146,000 from 2011 and over 6,000 worlds from 2010, I am inclined to say that no, this is definitely not the oldest. Probably thousands of those have probably been untouched since 2011, and probably a few from 2010. I also met the creator of the world, whose name in PixelWalker I forgot. To be fair, the world was created in January 2, 2011 which is very old, putting it in the earliest 9000 (under 0.1%) saved worlds in ArchivEE. That's more elusive than being untouched since 2012 IMO, but the world creator might not have realized the age of the world since it's not really clear in-game.
Anyways, the actual world is small stairs. I respect the world for making it small and not wasting too much of my time. The first staircase has coin spam, and it's impossible to get through the last section if you miss any. It makes me wonder why the coin door wasn't placed in the section with all the coins.
You can spam the keys, and the end reward being crown and keys shows that this is intentional. There are some key gates, which I assume are meant to stop players from jumping up while the keys are triggered, but some of them act as platforms to help players jump up. Unfortunately the entire world cannot be completed this way, which could be a fun twist on the stairs formula.
tags: allows key spam, coin skip softlock, stairs
difficulty: 1/5
fun: 1/5
presentation: 1/5
coins: 64/64
crown: under 40s
#220: Rapunzel - mihb - PWs-2FNebMa0I
Also made by Mega Lamb (Xenonetix). This world is based off the German fairy tale of "Rapunzel", but you probably knew that. After climbing Rapunzel's outrageously long hair, you travel through various rooms of the castle until you reach the treasure room at the top.
The artwork gives a lot of color and life to the house. However, it does look a bit off the more you look at it. The way certain blocks are mixed, like the Factory boxes and bloody Halloween blocks feel out of place you just look at the in-game screen. The rooms are inconsistent in scaling, especially the basement which is around double in scale. The floors are misaligned in the top half, which is usually not how buildings are built. It feels like the shape of the castle was decided before having the rooms make sense. As the level is a side view of the grasslands, the mountains look a bit too tall and prominent for the environment. The sun also looks like it was rushed. The scenery on the left side looks nice.
The minigames seem rather varied in size and shape and fairly original. A lot of them rely on gravity arrows serving as barriers, or covering the floor with up arrows, and I would have preferred a bit more space to run and jump. The only mini I actively disliked is in the second-last room (not including the win room), which is a mess to control having arrow walls combined with an arrow elevator.
Once you get 26 out of 50 coins—the maximum before the final room, which has 24, you get access to portals taking you to the top of the Rapunzel text. From there, you can do two tricky jumps to get the last two blue coins, which is pretty fun.
This is a quality world, the kind I'd expect to see in a campaign. The minis are well varied, if rather arrow-reliant, and most of the artwork is good. If I seem critical, that's because there's more to criticize in a quality level. It would be a waste to go this in-depth for criticism of a stairs level.
I was tempted to rate this 2/5 in difficulty, but I gave it 3/5 because some parts are tricky and John PixelWalker could not complete it.
tags: adventure, castle, fairy tale, fantasy, interior, minis, outdoors, sky, tower
difficulty: 3/5
fun: 4/5
presentation: 4/5
win: 668.44s
coins: 50/50
bcoins: 5/5
crown: get
#221: Oddus~ - unau - PWmhgPPgWFcEI
One of EE's finest worlds. This should have way more than 818 plays. Everybody who commented on this world after joining it in PixelWalker seemed to enjoy it.
The main mechanic is respawning at checkpoints. The gameplay stays strong, and keeps defying my expectation by using the checkpoints in different contexts, and revisiting the same areas with new awareness and context. All without the traditional progress gating methods like coins or one-use switches. Another cool thing is the bosses, which are brief but require a lot of precise inputs to reach the checkpoints. The fourth section uses a boss in a creative way that I won't spoil. There's even an extra mode once you complete the level, but I'll leave it up to players if they want to find out what it is.
The visuals look nice and clean, both in-game and on the minimap. I feel some levels try a bit too hard to make the foreground and background blend together, but this is not one of those worlds. The background and clear and black as night, giving you a nice silhouette of the level, which reminds me of older levels from before backgrounds. There's nothing wrong with using lots of backgrounds, but I appreciate this approach. Each level has distinct colors an shapes.
According to TURTLECAT1, the last section is unfortunately impossible in PixelWalker due to the reduced lava timer. I quit the level partway through the fourth section because of this, but maybe I will complete it another day once I can put it in the leaderboard.
This level is excellently designed. I strongly recommend trying it out.
tags: adventure, checkpoint puzzle, fantasy, metroidvania, puzzle,
difficulty: 4/5
fun: 5/5
presentation: 5/5
other: not fully explored
#222: ANDREJQ world - andrejq - PW-1PwOeiKbUI
ANDREJQ... That username seemed familiar, and reminded me of my Kongregate days back in 2012. Well, the world owner is registered on Facebook, and it turns out I was thinking of AndreiTan2000. No nostalgia rushes this week.
It might be hard to recognise at first, but this is a variant of the MrShoe home world. The big island is bulkier, there's more grass on the right, and there's an oddly shaped house. There are two coins inside, but you need god mode to reach the keys to open the doors. I like how colorful and weirdly shaped the house is.
tags: home world variant, outdoors, social
coins: 0/2
#223: Animals Only - lunathevampirewolf - PW-1QXazBpcUI
The description is "Please Join I'm Lonely". I doubt it'll help your loneliness playing it in 2025, and I might not quite be an animal, but I'll join anyway.
At the spawn, there's a vine taking you to a green structure with cloud blocks next to them. I don't know what it represents.
Past a 0 global switch door, which needs god mode to be reached, you can go up and reach a blue building of sort with cloud blocks. Based on the world name, owner name, and world contents, I'm guessing this is meant to be an animal role-play level, with the clouds representing pillows or something.
tags: blocked off, roleplay

oddus seems right up my alley im gonna play it later

EDIT: i 'beat' it. the part with the downright boosts in the lava section seems to be impossible even in eeo (but it was so close to being possible), so i used god mode to skip past it. might just be a skill issue tho
cool world

John

John · 2025-02-09 22:17:56

I was playing the Oddus world (not the Rapunzel one) and it was so much fun. I couldn't finish it though - will need to try again later on.

N1KF wrote:

According to TURTLECAT1, the last section is unfortunately impossible in PixelWalker due to the reduced lava timer. I quit the level partway through the fourth section because of this, but maybe I will complete it another day once I can put it in the leaderboard.

I made the timer for timed effects slightly longer which'll be live in the next PixelWalker update, so once that's ready it should be completable!

N1KF · 2025-02-16 04:00:15

▼Week 7

#224: solar system (WIP) - spiderboy01 - PW-1ROw5OxcEI

A display of the Solar System. There are little exhibits for Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. The exhibit for Mars claims it is hot, but Mars is colder than Earth. It also says it has no life, even though that would apply to all the Solar System besides Earth. (Well, as far as we know.)

You can also go outside and explore the area with a no gravity effect. The planet display is nice, even if they're a bit stylized and don't look that accurate. I like the Sun but Jupiter looks weird, almost square which is odd for a gas giant. The lack of space to build the display also shows, as the lineup of planet takes a weird turn.

Overall, this is a pretty unique idea for a world. However, there's not much to it, and some of the info is misleading.

tags: educational, planet, space, unfinished
presentation: 2/5

#225: My Home World - lordsagreas - PW-1VqaotscEI

Apparently there's still another default home world. It's the same as some of the previous homes, but it's winter so it's covered in snow.

tags: default home world, interior, winter
difficulty: 1/5
fun: 2/5
presentation: 3/5

coins: 1/1
crown: get

#226: Arts and Crafts - diamondheader - PW-1WEZ4RbcEI

This world is by RED CREW, and the description is "OH YEAH?"

I was expecting a sandbox world, but I think this is meant to be an adventure level. The plot is to restore the world of nothingness with its elements.

You start in Level 1: Earth. It's some rather basic platforming. all done with brown bricks. In theory you need to flip a switch door to get to a hook jump, but I just jumped over it with a fast jump. The rest of the level select is unreachable, but even if you use god mode you'll find the other areas don't exist anyway. I hesitated to give this a 2/5 for the fun, but there are enough levels with tedious gameplay that I figured the lowest rating wasn't appropriate.

The emblems on the minimap are interesting. They may be parallel to the level themes. The rightmost has the most obvious meaning, being the four elements—representing levels 1, 2, 3, and 6 with Earth, Air, Water, and Fire. The Water and Air corners are decorated, and the fire corner has a sign saying "Infernis", possibly a name for a fire area. The sign, as well as blocks in gravity arrows in the fire corner, suggests it may have been meant to be reachable at some point.

Right of the middle is white spots on black. It likely represents the Cosmos, matching Level 10.

The remaining emblems with no clear level counterpart are Life, Personality, Purpose, Energy, and Knowledge.

Left of the middle has either a "fire and ice" or "hot and cold" theming, which is more clear when you see the several lava blocks used. There are dark blocks in patterns that sorta look like symbols. After doing a little research, and scribbling both into Google Translate, I could not find any obvious connections.

The middle is mostly white, with a black arrow facing downward from the top. Perhaps coincidentally it looks like the arrows found on flying bison in Avatar: The Last Airbender.

The leftmost emblem is mostly pink and orange, separated by a blue and green border, with black and orange spikes from the bottom. It also has some kind of blue root or stem.

If anybody can decipher what these mean, let me know. They seem pretty interesting.

There's some miscellaneous stuff. Above the emblem, is a water icon with "ML". It might be a logo or insignia. In the top left, there are various gold-themed blocks, ice, booosts, and labels saying "GENG." and either "ONISIN" or "OHISIN". There is a small green "y", and in the top left a yellow circle with a god mode block. This area was likely for crew members to mess around, and I suspect the text is some of their usernames.

For some reason this world got a "Connection lost" error when I tried to play it in PixelWalker twice. This is different from the usual "Connection closed" error from an unrecognized world ID.

tags: adventure, mostly empty, story
difficulty: 2/5
fun: 2/5
presentation: 2/5

#227: Anthropocentrism - commanderkitten - PW0J2mOi3ncEI

Gorgeous world, that deserves a lot more than 400 plays. It has a lot in common with Unau's "Oddus~" from last week, being a wide world split into four sections with distinct colors. The scenery is bright and dreamlike. The last area is a change of pace, being moody and rainy with no visible plant life. The use of half blocks on top of poles for mushrooms is a clever way to work floating platforms naturally into the environment.

My first idea of the world's theme was the four seasons. The first is full of tulips and spring-like. However, the third section doesn't resemble any particular season which weakens this theory, as well as the "winter" section having rain instead of snow and the "summer" section having wilted flowers which I assume is closer to autumn.

I decided to look into the title. Anthropocentrism refers to the tendency for humans to focus on themselves as superior. The world starts out with nature, and progressively gets more human buildings such as temples. The grey, plantless end has Eastern religious iconography such as torii (Japanese shrine gate) and yin-yang decorations. It could reflect religion being part of human identity, or be used to blend in with the mysterious, grey environment.

Now the gameplay. This is the least substantial part of the level. This is a rather sparse level. The first section and cave boil down to "hold the right keys to slide through" which is satisfying to watch, but there's not much to it once you figure it out. The last section uses several Secret blocks with no indicators of where they are, as far as I can tell, so it's a bit of trial and error. Though to be fair, the platforms are consistently sized and fairly to get past in about 1-2 minutes.

tags: adventure, minis, outdoors, nature, platforming, slidey minis
difficulty: 2/5
fun: 3/5
presentation: 5/5

coins: 4/4
bcoins: 4/4
win: 1:50.432

John

N1KF · 2025-02-23 04:32:05

▼Week 8

#228: Untitled World - swkg - PW-1WJ6aU_cEI

A pleasant little world that looks like it would have been an adventure level, but got nowhere close to completion. The in-game art looks nice, one of the best so far. The only mini is a jump off a side arrow through some arrows, very basic stuff. You can do a 1x1 hook jump to get slightly up the mountain, but you can't get up any further.

tags: adventure, outdoors, unfinished
difficulty: 1/5
fun: 2/5
presentation: 3/5

#229: HITS OF 2017 MUSIC! - ruben101 - PW-1WMmdLRcEI

A music world of 2017's hits stringed together with piano blocks. The description is "Much hits of begin 2017 ;D" I dislike modern pop so nothing stands out to me. While I may do some research on what a level is based on, I couldn't bother to listen to a bunch of pop music. I'd give it a 1/5 in but somebody might like the music more than I do, so I gave it a 2/5. Let me know if you recognize the music here.

I guess I put "sound" as its own rating. I tried to keep the number of ratings low to keep things simple, but since so few levels use sound in their design I might as well have one.

I suspect this was generated using a MIDI music bot. The level is entirely in piano, with no drums or guitar, and an inconvenient amount of portals. Unfortunately since I can't recognize a single song, I can't check if it copied any MIDI files.

The background is bright orange with stripes. The black void outside of the world makes it a bit uncomfortable to look at. Don't play this level fullscreen in a dark room like I did.

tags: eyesore, music
presentation: 1/5
sound: 2/5

win: 1.83s

#230: boring day - adeit - PW-1XaEVw4ckI

A world with a sign saying you should ask for edit. The artwork is pretty unusual for an EE world, so I have to wonder if it was meant to be an adventure level, or a sandbox. The "ask for edit" thing suggests it's a sandbox, but the artwork is enough to look like an adventure level.

The artwork is charming, showing a sleeping person dreaming of a paintbrush surrounded by hearts. There's a demon head off to the side as well. Around the middle of the level, there are two layers of wood scaffolding decorations with an invisible dot bridge. That may mean the level was meant to be playable without edit at some point.

tags: art, blocked off, demon, dreams, free edit, sandbox
presentation 2/5

#231: viet nam - xrpgx - PW-1YOgdq5bEI

A 2012 world named after Vietnam. "Vietnam" unfortunately being shorthand for the Vietnam War from the common use I've seen made me assume this could be about the Vietnam War. The world is abstract enough that I can't tell if that was the idea or not.

I like the visual variety, though it is hard to describe. You start stuck in a prison-like area with grey brick walls, a table, and several keys. Once the blue key is pressed, you can go down the hole. Either the green door can be opened, taking you to the hub, or the red key can be opened, opening the door beneath you and taking you into an inescapable portal loop.

In the hub, there's a strange, cramped white room. The chairs are red and cyan, the table is metal and red glass, there's a flower and drink on the table, and what appears to be the room's light is red. The top path, reached via ladder has white and grey stripes. On the other side, there's a...computer room? There's a blue chair thingy, and is that a computer or other device on a desk? Downward, there is a room with what may be a bed, with unusual green blankets and a red pillow. There's an empty block there so smileys can sit there.

Downward, you go into the basement, with hazard signs and decaying brick walls. Here you find the three keys, the master room for determining who gets in and who goes into the trap. Even further down, there is a large area with water, possibly a well or a swimming pool. It has checkered background, making it feel a bit out of place beneath the run-down basement area.

This world has ominous vibes, like the "liminal space" thing the kids are talking about. That's still relevant, right? This barely manages to avoid the "nonsense" tag, because I think it's just a social level. It only got one play though.

tags: interior, multiplayer, social
presentation: 2/5

#232: code 123COOL - isabelle10molla - PW-1ZAXAO3bEI

Columns of pipes, along with columns of upward arrows. There are a few gaps in the columns, but not enough to move from spawn.

tags: free code

#233: Medium-Hard MinisWIP - radical1 - PW-1ZD6EK5bEI

JOHN: "RADICAL1 really had some radical minis"

I have been making these posts as late as possible, and three hours late has apparently become my new standard. It's a contradiction. I like doing it, but I dread doing it. There will be a bit of a loneliness when writing these things for so few others, assuming anybody is still reading this at this point. Writing the previous entries, I'd hoped that cynicism hadn't seeped through my writing.

However, something special happened while playing this level. A real "Everybody Edits moment" happened. Not one or two, but at around eleven players total joined, with at least eight players at once on PixelWalker, playing the level and trying to solve the minis for a while as if it were a hot new level. It probably helps that John gave players god mode, allowing them to skip around and see every mini. I screenshot this but unfortunately I lost the screenshot after copying a YouTube link.

The name is sorta correct, though I'd just describe them as Hard Minis. This has the most complex minigames of any randomly picked worlds here so far, possibly contributing to the brief surge of popularity.

#1 has two walls of arrows, where you have to push through the other side. There are additional arrows poking out around the thin middle part, so you have to maneuver correctly through it. It's trickier than it looks.

#2 is blocked off. Instead, it skips straight to #3. There appears to be an abandoned, impossible mini pass the barrier.

#3 is my favorite and what got me hooked into the level. John gave it a compliment to. It uses a basic form of movement in EE, probably one of the most overlooked and made into the first mini I have seen of its kind. It's the "save yourself!" maneuver you make, pushing against the wall above as the arrows try to push you through the hole in the wall. Taking advantage of this is no more than an exploit or brief moment of amusement in many worlds, but here it's made into a mini. You press the red key, and survive for five seconds until the gate opens up. It's so brilliantly simple, that I'm surprised it hasn't appeared in a thousand boxed mini levels.

#4 is a huge spike in difficulty and complexity, and where people started joining. I spent over an hour on this mini alone. This is a multi-part gauntlet of around four minis in one room. You have to navigate and jump carefully to get through here. It's a bit confusing at first, but I got through it eventually. DEVILCHARLOTTE, who played this level around as long as I have could beat the fifth mini still couldn't beat this one. It did get a little tiring doing the same complex movements again and again in attempt to climb through it.

#5 requires a big zoom through arrows, quite precise. It caught the attention of some players like LICTOR and FISH. Unfortunately I ran out of time and could not beat this one. Which is why I'm posting this half an hour past my usual three hours lateness. New record for lateness, I guess.

The world was created in 2012, but the complexity of the minis plus the presence of blue coin doors make me think the current minis were made 2014, possibly even later. With no other featured blocks added after 2012, it's hard to know for sure.

It might not be a super high quality level, but another random level this engaging to so many people might not happen anytime soon.

edit: I should also mention I had god mode and briefly used it to try out other minis, and to clearly ask another player where to go from a certain point. I didn't use it for any shortcuts or skips, but you'll have to take my word for it. At least one player did a little bit of editing, but AFAICT it was just some visual guidance for mini #5.

tags: minis, puzzle, unfinished
fun: 4/5
presentation: 2/5

coins: 4/5
bcoins: 2/3
win: not gotten
crown: not gotten

John

N1KF · Yesterday 04:00:01

N1KF wrote:

That's where I got an idea. I'm making a bot in Python. What if needs to do is connect to Legacy worlds, and make a leaderboard on a website. Days ago I figured out how to make it view the lobby and connect. I still need to decipher client messages and do things like timers for each player, but I have a bit of experience with working out data structures, and timers shouldn't be too complex. Hopefully something functional will be done by the end of February. If not then that will be very embarrassing.

Well that was very embarrassing.

In my defense I did sorta let my guard down at John mentioning the possibility of an in-game leaderboard. But I really shouldn't have halted development because of that. I started getting back to it on the last day of February.

Also, I forgot to rate the difficulty of "Medium-Hard MinisWIP". Probably a 4/5 I guess.

Sadly PixelWalker's legacy worlds are down, so I'll have to play them offline.

▼Week 9

#234: hollywood - tovie - PW-1_46P_6bUI

Hollywood seems like a cool place, but I never knew it was a green ramp filled with coins.

Jumping through it is kinda satisfying. If you do it right, you don't even need to go backwards, like some coin spam worlds. After the ramp, you need to go backwards under the ramp to the win trophy. You need to go past some arrows and a key door. If you stay behind the key doors, you're stuck unless somebody presses the key again. But I can't really call this a "key softlock" since this so-called trap contains the win trophy.

The level was likely created by a dejected director with a great talent for symbolic language in storytelling. This is a metaphor for how Hollywood uplifts you with the idea of great riches, then brings you down and traps you there. The teacher is definitely giving me a 100% for this analysis.

tags: coin spam, confusing title
difficulty: 1/5

win: 5.90s
coins: 26/26
bcoins: 27/27

#235: hold space - hayhayahy - PW-1a_hsW7a0I

A 2011 world where you hold space. Apparently the world owner pressed space an extra time when titling it, but thankfully they didn't hold space.

OK, I actually joined it, and this is weird. Another empty world with random border blocks scattered out of place. I thought it was just an odd quirk the first two times it happened, but seeing it happen again, and for a 2011 world just seems fishy.

Back in 2011 and the following years, the border was restricted to certain blocks and could not be removed except by mods. Either the world was mysteriously edited by a mod or years later to fit this anomaly, or more likely, the world was corrupted at some point alongside some others by the time it got into ArchivEE.

On the bright side, trying to tag this gave me two new fun ideas for tags. "confusing title" for the surprisingly many misleading or hard to understand titles, and "slightly ominous" which "viet nam" would also count for.

tags: confusing title, mostly empty, slightly ominous

#236: the house - andy6 - PW-1agyFokbUI

A simple house. Mineral and pastel are used for bright saturated colors with the grass even being shaped out. With the bright grass, house, and sun in the corner, it looks like a children's drawing made into a level. I might as well make a "house" tag for worlds focused on houses.

The most interesting thing is the blue circle in the sky. I think it's the dark side of the moon, but it's a bit unusual to see a new moon portrayed in daylight.

tags: house, outdoors, social

#237: My Home World - babbit365 - PW-1bmZ0VkcEI

Speaking of the moon, this is a pretty cool space world. I like the in-game visuals. I don't know how to explain it but it does feel pretty atmospheric and epic. Perhaps that's because the level uses fully black blocks for space, making the level appear larger than it really is. The spaceship cleverly uses of blocks—Arctic ice for the window, and Cloud for the smoke.

However the minimap did not fare so well, as the level uses decorations and paths throughout the fully black blocks which show up on the minimap. This is more a limitation of EE than anything else. It could've used Secret passages, but there are plenty of slow dots in the area which limits that. Stars don't appear on the minimap, and the blue coin doors stick out a bit there too.

The gameplay is also a weak and slow. The level relies a lot on slow dots, and the moon uses invisible gravity. After that you go through a small maze, but it is a bit hard to see as a consequence of the area using the darkest background—black Basic.

For minutes I debated whether the gameplay gets a 1/5 or a 2/5 but the gameplay was just barely bad and sluggish enough on replay to get a 1/5. I also wonder if a 3/5 for presentation is too generous, but I don't wanna be too critical. Gotta have some range so everything isn't just 1/5. Maybe I'll look back and think I rated this world poorly, but for now I have to accept the decision and move on.

A nice view of space, at the expense of the gameplay and minimap.

tags: adventure, maze, space
fun: 1/5
presentation: 3/5
difficulty: 1/5

bcoins: 3/3
win: 51.16s

The next world seems interesting but I didn't have time for a full review: a variety level with several ways to win, curse tag, and the hidden option to be racist?

To be continued...

John

Official Everybody Edits Forums

#26 2025-01-20 00:59:59, last edited by N1KF (2025-01-20 01:00:15)

Re: Week 8 playing random EE worlds until EE! releases

#170: boss off - karolp - PW-0vkpsnVa0I

#171: wip friends can join - flobalob - PW-0vypSFAcEI

#172: Under Construction - ttf12 - PW-0yP4ToBcEI

#173: free edit - tabby22350 - PW-1-OtaxlcEI

#174: boss to copy - paulinha1289 - PW-1-gunQCbEI

#175: samrskell - samrskel - PW-152EgvcbEI

#176: code 0000 - marek63 - PW-15UOxPGbUI

#27 2025-01-21 00:59:40

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#177: Coins World - juuliaah - PW-15wKs4_bEI

#178: Untitled World - magogi - PW-175hKRObEI

#179: Epic face - djklay - PW-17rJfEvbEI

#180: zombie world - tibi3511 - PW-18nIw5obUI

#181: Prison - wolfsblood - PW-18zuV0kbEI

#28 2025-01-21 15:52:00

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#29 2025-01-22 03:55:57

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#182: nasumies - luksyfearkirill919 - PW-19XR6j0bEI

#183: 3 magic genorators - natedog36 - PW-19m0hyTbEI

#184: Micro Worlds [WIP] - firerob - PW-1BKeKrFcEI

#185: Ride-twentyonepilots - suisunday - PW-1E9A1HEcUI

#186: CODE IS 3441 - sastroop - PW-1IhQvBibkI

#30 2025-01-23 02:59:20, last edited by N1KF (2025-01-23 03:02:09)

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#187: Stairs and Minigames - awesomeryan - PW-1J84HyNbUI

#188: fun house - skittlesmadman - PW-1JkoYDAbEI

#189: RPG - shipower - PW-1Jq6SbGa0I

#190: Untitled World - sonic424 - PW-1KPRmyzb0I

#191: 5 STAR HOTEL - boltxp - PW-1KrF5eMbUI

#192: anton - antonrd - PW-1Ksb1X3a0I

#193: Untitled World - skydoesmc - PW-1KzURdzbUI

#31 2025-01-24 00:32:43

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#194: Untitled World - windseeker - PW-1LJkrg6bEI

#195: TROLLS HQ - troller1234 - PW-1LaaPIYbUI

#196: Untitled World - camilobomp - PW-1LbOi3LbEI

#197: Country - danydaninutzu - PW-1LehKlsbUI

#198: art & stuff - joyouse - PW-1LnPKiBbUI

#199: alexland - hyftducdidydi9ydidtd - PW-1LrEav6bEI

#200: Perfect Coy Smiley - coy71 - PW-1M5PVPQbEI

#32 2025-01-25 02:59:43

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#201: My Home World - wunarg - PW-1Mg4dIncEI

#202: Me Shift Entry - musicman - PW-1MvwoxUa0I

#203: awesome world - geekyminer1610 - PW-1N58B1MbEI

#204: minecraft error map - gamerninja - PW-1N5Dzd_bUI

#205: tower climb part 1 - raddo2020 - PW-1NJpnEFbkI

#206: Death Run! - snowww - PW-1NMpWBHcEI

#33 2025-01-25 19:59:35

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Day 25

#207: daryldixion - daryldixon - PW-1N_7vQwbUI

#208: Key Boss - janissimonka - PW-1O2WX3ob0I

#34 2025-01-30 05:02:11, last edited by N1KF (2025-01-30 05:38:21)

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#???: Why I started this - N1KF - 799604

#???: What I learned - N1KF - 799604

#???: What I was missing - N1KF - 799604

#35 2025-01-30 11:53:54

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#36 2025-01-30 16:52:08, last edited by MartenM (2025-01-30 16:52:43)

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#37 2025-01-31 13:17:48

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#38 2025-02-02 04:00:18, last edited by N1KF (2025-02-02 08:28:22)

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#209: Cool Art - sillly - PW-1OAEkU2bUI

#210: parour race - richman95 - PW-1OhUs1vbkI

#211: I WANT MONKEY! - wuhaohan - PW-1OiT1dHcEI

#212: Untitled World - kodekpl - PW-1OtrxX4a0I

#213: PACMAN - loxmender1523 - PW-1P7e001bEI

#214: . - dabs - PW-1P8qeQxbUI

#215: sweet home sweet - soohan - PW-1P9y5V4bUI

#216: BLACKSKY COME HERE - gerben - PWL2rNPSdqa0I

#217: RED TEAM - dtmfm1229 - PW-1PjsbwRbUI

#39 2025-02-09 04:01:03