User:Wuzzy

It’s me, Wuzzy!

I speak German and English.

I am active in this Wiki and in the Minetest forums (same user name). I'm the author of countless mods and even a few games. I make sure the German translation of Minetest stays up-to-date. I rarely did a few small contributions to Minetest itself, but enough to appear as “active contributor” in the Minetest credits in version 0.4.16. :-)

I am sometimes active on the JT2 server. I'm that crazy player who built a large bungalow of nothing but bones.

You can contact me via XMPP: Wuzzy2@jabber.ccc.de

My creations

Games I have created

… and there's a couple of projects which never really took off so far.

Mods I have created

I have made a large number of mods. Mods on which I'm most proud of are in bold.

Gameplay mods

Orienteering [orienteering]: Craftable tools for find your place in the world
Easy Vending Machines [easyvend]: Buy and sell stuff from other players in vending and depositing machines or place your own
Flying Carpet [flying_carpet]: Fly over the world!
Point Teleporter [teletool]: Teleport to whereever you point to
Mirror of Returning [returnmirror]: Teleport back to a place you've been previously
Pep: Player Effects Potions [pep]: Simple potions giving you useful or harmful status effects
Realistic Suffocation [real_suffocation]: Lose breath while you're stuck in solid blocks
Magic Beans—Wuzzy’s Fork [magicbeans_w]: Find magic beans, jump higher, run faster, fly, plant a giant beanstalk
Mesecons Windows [mesecons_window]: Mesecons extension which adds blocks which turn transparent when powered
Surprise blocks [tsm_surprise]: Blocks with surprises appear around the world!
Watering Can [wateringcan]: Water your farming lands

Map generation

Rail corridors + treasures [tsm_railcorridors]: Simple underground corridor systems with rails and a few treasure chests
Pyramids + treasures [tsm_pyramids]
Spawn Builder [spawnbuilder]: Spawns a basic starter platform, useful for empty worlds
Indestructible Bedrock Layer [bedrock2]

Blocks / decorative items

Color Cubes [colorcubes]: Colorful blocks
Minetest Game Plus [mtg_plus]: Lots of new craftable decoration blocks for Minetest Game
Slime blocks and liquids [<codes>slimenodes]: Sticky, bouncy, gooey slimey blocks.
Dice [dice2]: Funny dice which rotate randomly

GUI mods

Help modpack [doc]: Learn everything what you always wanted to know, plus more! Mods can write their own help texts
HUD bars [hudbars]: Replace the statbars with progress bar-like bars
Inventory Icon [inventory_icon]: See your inventory fullness
Show Wielded Item [show_wielded_item]: Show the name of the wielded item above hotbar
Simple Fast Inventory Buttons [sfinv_buttons]: Buttons for Minetest Game's inventory screen

Mod development tools

These mods are for mod developers:

Schematics Editor [schemedit]: Create, load, place and edit schematics
L-System Tree Utility [ltool]: Helps you understanding and creating L-system trees for Minetest

Architecture mods

These mods are not really useful in their own, but they can be depended on by modders to get a framework for interesting features, like adding a mana game mechanic.

Mana [mana]: Players get a new mana attribute which can be used for magical spells, items, etc.
Player Effects [playereffects]: Status effects for players
Treasurer [treasurer]: Random treasure/loot selection framework
Central Message [central_message]: Write a message in the center of the screen
Basic HUD textures [basic_hud]: Just a few basic texture for creating new games
Player Model [playermodel]: Player model as a standalone mod
Galaxy Skybox [galaxybox]: Turn the sky into deep space

List of mods on the forums: https://forum.minetest.net/search.php?st=0&sk=t&sd=d&sr=topics&author=Wuzzy&fid[]=11&sf=titleonly&start=30

What I play

Games I like

Servers I like

JT2
Inside the Box

My development philosophy for writing Lua code

When I write Lua code for Minetest mods and games, I tend to follow loosely a set of rules I have been used to over the years:

local is your new best friend. Use local religiously for every variable, unless you are sure it must be global
Introducing a global variables is a big deal. Do this only if other mods ought to access resources inside that mod (e.g. for an API)
Never re-use technical mod names for no reason! Seriously, stop doing this! Once a mod with name “xyz” is released, this name is taken. Deal with it!
Do not re-invent the wheel. Do research to check if your task has not already been implemented nicely by someone else
One mod shall only fulfil one task, but well. Mods which do multiple completely unrelated features at once are bad.
When possible, turn dependencies into optional dependencies
Document your own API and code
My personal coding style can be summarized in 2 rules:
- Get your indentations right
- If you find it hard to navigate your own code, rewrite it
Implement localization support as early as possible
Use SemVer, when it makes sense
Avoid proprietary stuff like the pest