Archipelago is a multi world randomizer, and Overcooked 2 in included in that and plays pretty well randomly!
For those curious, it’s basically “everyone’s progression items are strewn about everyone’s worlds”, so I might unlock morph ball for someone’s Metroid run in my hollow knight run, and they might find “throw” for overcooked 2
That sounds like absolute carnage, certainly appropriate for Overcooked. How does it work? Do they have to make a mod for each game they want to support?
Yup! And then you make a config file (usually via the website) and it all goes together into a server (free on archipelago or you can self host) to make and track the randomizer.
So for OC2 – things like throw, usable joysticks, sprint, emote, faster washing/faster cutting, plates being clean instead of dirty, the ramps, and a few other QoL items are in the pool. Then you do stars (default is just 1/level) go get checks, and need more stars for more levels. Obviously it’s much easier with all your tech, and you can scale it however you want.
For some games, it can be insane amounts of checks. Like factorio or Stardew or StarCraft
I should also say, like when my friends and I start a big archipelago run it’ll take > 1 month, and we’ll have 2-5 games per person, and will have 10k total checks
Of course you can do way way smaller ones. Even single sitting ones for sure.
Nice!
I wanna mention one of my favorite ways to game (especially asynchronously) with my friends
https://archipelago.gg/
Archipelago is a multi world randomizer, and Overcooked 2 in included in that and plays pretty well randomly!
For those curious, it’s basically “everyone’s progression items are strewn about everyone’s worlds”, so I might unlock morph ball for someone’s Metroid run in my hollow knight run, and they might find “throw” for overcooked 2
That sounds like absolute carnage, certainly appropriate for Overcooked. How does it work? Do they have to make a mod for each game they want to support?
Yup! And then you make a config file (usually via the website) and it all goes together into a server (free on archipelago or you can self host) to make and track the randomizer.
So for OC2 – things like throw, usable joysticks, sprint, emote, faster washing/faster cutting, plates being clean instead of dirty, the ramps, and a few other QoL items are in the pool. Then you do stars (default is just 1/level) go get checks, and need more stars for more levels. Obviously it’s much easier with all your tech, and you can scale it however you want.
For some games, it can be insane amounts of checks. Like factorio or Stardew or StarCraft
I should also say, like when my friends and I start a big archipelago run it’ll take > 1 month, and we’ll have 2-5 games per person, and will have 10k total checks
Of course you can do way way smaller ones. Even single sitting ones for sure.
That’s really cool