Behold… The Evereman—of Minecraft!
Last Saturday, my trusty adventure sidekick Evelyn and I had the pleasure of hanging at “Everemanor” — the super rad, ever chill, maker-lair of the ATL’s one and only, Evereman. Wow, I just realized that’s a lot of “E-V”s…
The Evereman was hosting a production party where friends could lend a helping hand to churn out some new pieces he’ll drop around ATL-town 4U to find. If you don’t know who (or what?) an Evereman is exactly, then you might want to check this out first.
After helping cut, fire-brand and paint little Everemen all afternoon, it finally dawned on me if anyone had ever done a “drop” of one of these little robo-looking dudes in a virtual world. Specifically, I’ve been experimenting with Python programming in the 3D landscape of Minecraft (a very popular building-block game for creating just about whatever structure you can literally imagine) to construct creations not manually by hand, but with scripts of code to do it for me — automagically.
I asked Jay (The Evereman) if anyone had ever built one that he knew of in Minecraft. Sure enough, someone had already beat me to it. Bummer... But I couldn’t find anything online if it had been automated so that you could snap your fingers (or rather, run your Python script!) and drop one in all of its Evereman-ish glory; perfectly built, instantly right before your very eyes.
So I built it. ☺
For you #FAFATL’ers out there, consider this my first (virtual!) “drop”.
And just in case you didn’t have anything better to do on your Saturday morning, download my .py file from GitHub and improve it to allow you to create Everemen with any block color combination you want for more colorful drops!
Seriously though, if you (or your kids or cousins or nieces and nephews or whoever) are interested in this kind of stuff, get yourself a Raspberry Pi and then head over here.
Evereman your world!
[Caution, Nerdy Techie Note: Unfortunately, this version of Minecraft (Minecraft Pi or MCPI) runs only on Raspberry Pi, and the APIs for the game have been exposed so you can do something fun like this in programming languages like Python. I haven’t found any reference online that talks about being able to do this kind of programming/scripting thing in other Minecraft server worlds since it looks like the modding projects out there that allowed for API use like Bukkit have effectively been killed…
Boo. ☹]
Some more awesomeness from the production party day.
