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Medieval Hunger Games

January 2025

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100 players

The Project

Organized with BenjaminX and Drisii, Medieval Hunger Games is an event inspired by those big Hunger Games from the English community, with several unique touches that would differentiate this experience from any other that was ever seen. One hundred players playing in a map with custom generation, legendary weapons, dangerous creatures, very powerful bosses and grand structures to try to be the last team standing. The alliances and betrayals were key in this intense event in which participants did anything necessary to survive.

A big technical challenge

From the beginning, the idea for this project was to achieve the impressive amount of 100 players to participate in the event. There are several reasons why this poses a big challenge, even for big multiplayer servers. Thanks to multiple optimizations in our software, the available hardware capacity and the technical team expert in server configuration, we finally could have all participants in a single game of Medieval Hunger Games. This made us not only achieve a new milestone in our technical capabilities, but also offer the security that all the participants could enjoy the event, no matter how many there are.

Illustration of A big technical challenge box of Medieval Hunger Games

The map

Exploring the map in search of chests and tools to equip is the start of any game of Hunger Games. Therefore, we decided that the map couldn't be a regular Minecraft world. The tireless work of our builders and programmers turned the world of this game into a medieval kingdom full of colourful biomes, profound ravines and multiple villages, cities and structures.

Illustration of The map box of Medieval Hunger Games

Items and dungeons

For this event we designed and added four legendary weapons, each of them with its own 3D model and a special ability. All weapons could be obtained by crafting them with items that should be found exploring the structures of the map thoroughly. Obtaining them was expensive, but the advantage they offered could be decisive in a battle.

In addition to the weapons, there was a single netherite armor in the world. To obtain it, the players needed to defeat the boss from the central dungeon, which was full of dangerous enemies. While they moved through the dungeon, many participants died, but finally the boss was defeated successfully.

Illustration of Items and dungeons box of Medieval Hunger Games