In accordance with birthday tradition, The Gunslinger has been the map for the past 2 years running, marking year 9 of maps. The Gunslinger was intended to work as a showcase of the HGDev infrastructure datapack, but is not just a tech demo. It features over 100+ custom items, quests, NPC vendors, custom classes, and many many hours of tuning and balancing. There are tons upon tons of secrets, references, and even some minigames to play in the hub.

The map supports up to 16 players at a time, and is functional with Minecraft: Java Edition version 1.20.4.

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This project has taken about 3 years to complete, and has had quite the contributing team. While I primarily coded and designed the map, I have had build help from numerous sources, and testing help from many more people, all credited in the map's settings hub. Usually I include some sort of teaching moment in this, but the amount of lessons regarding game design in general from this map's creation and production are so vast in quantity it would be hard to list (or remember!) all of them. HGDev is where the real learning took place, Gunslinger was mostly a sandbox for me to take that knowledge and tools and build something fun with it.

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Anyways, enjoy my first real publicly-released product!