What started out as a small personal project has since expanded into a growing and thriving World of Warcraft addon enjoyed by many players in the PvP community.
This addon, which started for the purpose of furthering my knowledge of Lua and World of Warcraft addon development, assists players in the game by keeping track of a lot of PvP statistical information; information such as their current kill count, highest kill count, killing blows, etc. In addition to that, the addon also assists players by giving them notifications when players from the opposing faction in the zone have a bounty on them, or when a player from their faction finds a Supply Drop in the area.
This project was initially posted on 7/26/18. As of 5/20/20, this project has a Total Download count of 11,042. The addon can be downloaded from the Curseforge page here, or from the Twitch.tv app.
Following the release of WoW classic, I decided to port the War Mode Tracker project to the older version of the game, and integrate it with the old PvP system. This involved heavily rewriting and removing large sections of the code, and reading old API documentation to integrate the older system into the addon.
Once the addon was in a functional state with the basics of the classic PvP system, I then decided to build new features for this version of the addon specifically. Most recently this came about in the form of a player kill tracker, helping players keep track of who they slay on the enemy faction and how often. This is significant due to the old system having diminishing rewards for slaying the same player multiple times, and was requested to be added to the project by various users.
This project was initially published on 11/22/19. As of 5/20/20, this project has a Total Download count of 7,866. The addon can be downloaded from the Curseforge page here, or from the Twitch.tv app.
Madness of the Void started out as a simple project with a primary goal of teaching myself the basics of Lua and World of Warcraft addon development. This was my first attempt at making an addon for the game, and started a passion for game mod development with existing frameworks.
This addon serves as a simple Role Playing tool focused around the game’s “Void” theme, which has its basis in many Lovecraft based creatures and ideas. As such, this addon will give the player the guise of going insane and being influenced by the Void. This is accomplished by playing various sound files at set intervals from the game’s various Void themed bosses and NPCs.
This project was initially posted on 6/22/18. As of 5/20/20, this project has a Total Download count of 761. The addon can be downloaded from the Curseforge page here, or from the Twitch.tv app.
Following the release of WoW classic, I decided to create an addon that would act as a sort of stand-in for the retail version “Looking for Group” system, as no such system was in place in the older version. This inspired me to create an addon called Chat Assistant. Chat Assistant was meant to assist players in finding groups or items in the game’s built in chat channels, as it is often times easy to miss key things you are looking for given the volume of people actively sending messages at peak hours.
For this project I made a custom chat frame that pulls out messages in the various chat channels that contain key words the player set the addon to look for. The addon also gives has two different searching options for the keywords, a restrictive search that will look for search terms as standalone words, and a non-restrictive search that searches for keywords within any extra word or order. The user is also given the ability to save keyword presets, for ease of use when looking for multiple items or activities.
This project was initially posted on 11/8/19. As of 5/20/20, this project has a Total Download count of 399. The addon can be downloaded from the Curseforge page here, or from the Twitch.tv app.