Washington Has Fallen Beta 2 Update - February 2023

Beta Testing 2 Update

Beta Testing 2 for Washington Has Fallen began a few weeks ago. We've gotten about 4 hours in per week of testing. SkyThrusters has been working on some coding fixes and bugs during the week. Going forward, we will move to doing straight beta testing playthrough without any in-between fixes until the end.

DuneImp at Washington Has Fallen's new starting area.

We need to move faster so DuneImp is able to continue helping test through the end of Beta Test 2.  DuneImp potentially has other work they need to focus on coming up shortly, so we'll need to speed things up a little.

We're finding quite a few bugs and coding issues during the two team member testing that did not appear in the single player beta testing of the game, which is the purpose of beta testing with more than one person.

DuneImp placing TNT during a Mission.

Currently beta testing is a two person team of SkyThrusters and DuneImp. Later, after beta test 2 is completed and the new bugs are fixed, it will need to be tested with the maximum amount of 5 players to see how the coding holds up and what kinds of new bugs appear with more players.

Fortunately, the bugs and fixes are relatively minor right now.  They're also looking at any improvements that may need to be made to make gameplay flow better, easier for players to navigate and understand what is expected to be accomplished at each mission.  Reducing steps that make getting between missions unnecessarily long will help players stay engaged.

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Washington Has Fallen - January 2023 Update

WHF Updates:

BETA TESTING

We're currently getting ready to enter into the second official round of Beta Testing.  DuneImp has joined the team as the lead beta tester.  They're currently going through some basic training and becoming familiarized with everything.

WEEK 1 & 2

EASTER EGGS

Even though Washington Has Fallen is in the beginning of beta testing round two, with a hopefully soon to be release date, we're still adding interesting news and political events to this amazing parody Minecraft Bedrock Adventure game until we release it publicly.

We'll do this as much as possible by adding in bonus "Easter Eggs", since adding new missions would take to long and we're really excited to be able to do a full public release soon.

"Easter Eggs" in videogame's are a tradition in which secret areas, hidden areas, special prizes are built into the game for the more ambitious player to attempt to locate. Some remain hidden for years.

We'll be thinking of ways to add a few in, there are lots of possibilities.

Top Secret

Since SkyThrusters is currently doing design work on our next project INVERSE and waiting for Beta Testing round 2 to begin, he took an evening to build Joe Biden's Delaware Home into Washington Has Fallen.

Biden's Delaware home in the Minecraft Build had

limited space between two other buildings, so the profile is much smaller, but still has three floors.

This is the real Biden Delaware home, where the

Top Secret documents from when Biden was 

Vice President were discovered in his garage.

Building space was limited since SkyThrusters wanted to add it into a specific community of Washington DC, but we think he did a darn good job.  He said studied photos of the actual Biden home, but couldn't figure out where the garage is actually located, so he went ahead and just put the garage opening in the front as an attached garage.

No photos of the interior of the Biden Delaware home could be located, so he just did basic interior design that he felt fit the Biden's, including a pool in the backyard, a traditional brick BBQ and Jill Biden NPC making some food.

WEEK 3

MORE EASTER EGGS

We placed more Easter Eggs to be discovered throughout Washington DC.  Washington will be the only area with the Easter Eggs to award the curious and ambitious with extra in game benefits. Unlike the Mission Chests within the game that have enough for up to five players, the Easter Eggs only payout to the first player who discovers the content and activates it correctly. 

LOCKING IT DOWN

We also locked down some key elements of the game to prevent those assets from being moved, mainly vehicles that are intended to remain in place. The majority of the other vehicles are intended to be usable for transportation, thanks to LIFE BOAT's built in mod package.  There is one significant area of Washington DC that the vehicles being frozen in their location makes sense for the surrounding mood and environment.  That took most of a day to accomplish.

LIGHTING UPDATES

Also worked were some lighting level improvements.  Some missions of the game take place at night in Washington DC and need enhanced to improve the visibility of highlighted areas that players need to see easier that would otherwise be to dark.  That took an all night/morning work session to complete.  There will probably be other lighting updates required that will be discovered during the next beta test session, which will hopefully happen soon.

This is an example of one of the areas that was too dark

and needed a lighting level update.

NAVIGATIONAL GUIDES

During our first beta tests back in 2020, lead beta tester BlestHeart18402 recommended adding in NPC's to act as navigational guides.  At that time there were no guides or directions to help locate missions or sites of interest. A significant amount of time was wasted running up and down the massive main world area trying to locate buildings and places using minimal signs.

The past two years, a large amount of time has gone into exploring and implementing different ways to assist players from one mission location to the next, including NPC's.  Here at the end of development it made sense to add in a lot of additional "guides" to help players figure out where they are in relationship to sights and places directly around them.  That has taken a week or more to implement.

INFORMATIONAL MESSAGING AND NPC

The original world that the Washington Has Fallen Minecraft Template overlays, used a network of NPC's and raw text messages at sights of interest. We always knew from the start that one of the last things to do in WHF would be to replace those messages.  We replaced the NPC's in 2021 after an update from Minecraft broke the original NPC's that LifeBoat used for their Washington DC world.  Their NPC's existed before Minecraft Bedrock had NPC's available.  When Minecraft Bedrock was updated to include it's own native NPC system, we had to go and repair and replace all of the original NPC's that had broke.  That was actually a good thing, because ultimately it gave us full control of NPC placement and customization.  This week we are updating those internal raw text messages with content that matches the theme of the adventure. At the same time, the NPC's that work together with internal messages are getting a brand new 2022 look.

Our original NPC replacements were honestly ugly, fortunately the last update from Minecraft in 2022 also introduced a lot of new NPC skins, so we found a much nicer looking skin for those NPC's.

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We did it!

 Major Progress going into 2023

We did it!

We finished three years of coding and design work on the Washington Has Fallen Minecraft Adventure Project at 11:11 AM New years Eve!

This is an extremely major accomplishment. Now it moves into Beta Testing #3 to clean up, adjust timings, spot final bugs.

Currently Beta #3 is expected to be a two person team doing a play through, spotting bugs and testing for timing of events etc. Assuming nothing major appears that needs fixed, it could move rather quickly compared to the past three years of coding and design work.

Beta #4 is expected to be a team of four to five. Beta #4 is where issues and bugs might occur that could require some re-coding or code modifications based on our prior experience with beta test team #1. When you introduce multiple players into small and confined spaces and then have a lot of code doing various kinds of events behind the scene, Minecraft can become a bit temperamental, and do things like transport players into areas where we did the coding work or into other parts of the world.

It's a great way to begin a new year 2023.

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Thank you to the RGAP Creative community on Twitter

 Thank you Twitter Friends

2022 was a strange year, but also an amazing year for the Washington Has Fallen Minecraft Bedrock Adventure Game

Though we didn't have any takers from the public to help us beta test during 2022, we did have a very tiny, but active community of friends on the RGAP Creative twitter.

We appreciate your input, especially in our polls to help use to decide which characters you wanted to encounter within the final version of Washington Has Fallen.

We gave you a lot of suggestions, but you decided, and you wanted Elon Musk, Hunter Biden and Kyle Rittenhouse and a few others, and we think you made a great decision.  We had a lot of fun creating new missions utilizing this new Non-Player Characters into the game, in fact the only reason we're even still working on the game during the last week of 2022, is because some of the new missions we built are so stupidly crazy and fun.

In the last few missions of the game, you'll now encounter Kyle Rittenhouse armed with medical assistance and tools you'll need to help survive in the massive war that takes place in the Dark Lair.

Then you'll encounter Elon Musk with his Twitter Files.  Elon will send you into a very, very, very, very bad place where you'll encounter one of the craziest mission battles we came up for the game.  You'll have to locate Biden Hunter in this bad, bad, bad, more bad place and help him, so he will give you access to the information on his laptop.

Survive those encounters and maybe, just maybe, you'll live to tell about it.

So it is with great appreciation that we say thank you Twitter Friends, for your input.  The game would be completely different if you had picked different characters in our polls.  We don't even know how different, because we designed the final missions completely based on your choices and then had to figure out how they tied into the entire plot-line.

Thanks a bunch!

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Washington Has Fallen End of Summer 2022 Update

 Still slowly working out those beta bugs.

Progress on Washington Has Fallen continues, albeit slowly. Minecraft has received a lot of updates since we began coding the Washington Has Fallen adventure, and some of them have changed the way parts of the game was originally coded.

We originally used a strategy throughout the world that forced key NPC characters to self propel themselves over distances while triggering events along the way to set up some of the missions players would encounter next.

It was a unique idea in which an action by a player would TP the unknown and hidden NPC Character to a special area onto a pressure plate which in turn would trigger a series of command block commands, along with moving the NPC to its next area until the player arrived.

Originally it worked, because in the first introduction of NPC's into the Bedrock version of Minecraft, they had weight and could trigger a pressure plate when they landed on them.  But in newer updates of Minecraft, the player has to be present where the NPC is being teleported from, so it became no longer to self-teleport the NPC that had been teleported beyond the block limits of the player.  The command blocks would return an error, "Unable to place block outside of world".

That has created a ton of extra work as we were design the missions of the game impacted by the changes.

One way it's good, because originally we were teleporting and triggering blocks every so many block chunks within the players range. Since that it no longer working either, were now just teleporting the NPC's wherever they are going, and recoding the local activity locally.

Another good thing about it, is some in-between missions required a lot of running around and searching for buildings in Washington DC which is massive.  That created a lull in the adventure experience. So we've been forced to create new areas that originally didn't exist and some mini-missions that didn't originally exists.

The downside however, is its creating a whole lot of new unexpected work, a whole lot of new coding, and going through the original coding to figure out what we originally did and how it originally worked so we can write new code and make some aspects simpler.

For example.  In the original final beta version, the player trigger an action that sent the NPC jumping by itself and triggering different set-ups about four times on it's way to the White House.  That way, by the time the player would reach the White House, everything would be ready to go and the NPC would be in place.

But, with the changes Minecraft has made, we've had to instead make seven new mini-missions in between the location the player ends the previous mission before reaching the White House Mission which is a major mission in the game.

For example, the player originally never needed to visit the Hospital in Washington DC.  Now the player has three new missions before reaching the Hospital.  The Hospital never had a "Chapel".  But we needed an area that made sense within the overall game to propel the game forward, so we had to build this Hospital Chapel.

We thought the Chapel would be enough, but when testing it out, it connected to the original NPC jumping points which no longer work.  So several of the areas we built recently ended up being unused.  Instead as we beta tested this part of the progression of the game this morning, we realized the Hospital Chapel is actually going to end up being an important part of moving the game forward.

Of course I can write about it all I want, but it won't make much sense until you eventually have a chance to play, and by that time, we'll have already worked out the new coding.

That being said, it's exciting to finally be almost to the White House.  The White House Mission is one of the major missions and contains enormous amounts of coding and activity.  It's one those parts in the game for those of us doing the coding that lets us know we've reached a good place.

Though we'll certainly have to do more creative work arounds once we get past the White House Mission, its a good place.  Hopefully, the White House mission will require little if any new revisions.  It's been beta tested more than any other mission, only uses NPC's to trigger local events and is self contained.

We'll be about half way done with the current beta test repairs and fixing bugs when the White House mission is done.

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How to beat Supreme Court Mission 1 in Minecraft Washington Has Fallen Adventure

It's sometime in the present. Washington Has Fallen. It's up to you and your X-Team to rescue the president and save America.  But first you must master and beat all of the missions you're sent on by General Glide.

To help you get started in the Supreme Court Missions, we present this complete playthrough video for Mission One of the SCOTUS.  You'll spend time fighting traitors to the country, beating down mindless zombies and solving the hidden locations required to proceed. You can do it! You're the X-Team! 

Washington Has Fallen is a full world adventure by RGAPCreative, built upon the Washington DC world template created by LifeBoat Network. We took Washington DC and scrapped 98% of the original coding, and built an entirely new adventure like anything you have played before on Minecraft.  At the time of this video, we are still beta testing the final version, but once we're done we are releasing it for anyone who has Minecraft Bedrock and the Washington DC by Lifeboat Network to play it.  LifeBoat released the Washington DC world in 2020 for free during the Pandemic, so you may already have what you need to play, otherwise you'll need to buy it on the Minecraft Marketplace from LifeBoat, since the adventure takes advantage of their modules for some functionality.

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Q: How long does it take

Q: How long does it take to develop and design a #Minecraft adventure like #WashingtonHasFallen?

A: So far two years, and that is having started with the #LifeBoat #WashingtonDC as a template to save time. Add two years if you design all buildings.

Bottom line is, it partly depends on a lot of different factors. Washington Has Fallen encompasses multiple large missions with complex coding.  When the project began, SkyThrusters the project creator had only been playing Minecraft for about five months so he had to research, study and teach himself coding in Redstone, which is the most basic version of Minecraft coding.

The first version of the Washington Has Fallen adventure was coded entirely in Redstone, using Redstone machines and contraptions.  This kind of coding is ok for mini-games and if you are building in vanilla Minecraft in native survival game mode.  However it is problematic for bigger projects, because Redstone machines require complicated coding and massive amounts of space.

By the time the main storyline, new infrastructure, an missions has been completed, SkyThrusters had taught himself the advanced coding using command blocks and command codes.  This was a breakthrough, because it reduced the time required to code a mission by 95%, and similarly reduced the space required for coding to around 90%, when compared to Redstone coding alone.

Fortunately, by the time the majority of the core coding began, SkyThursters had already moved the coding to using command blocks and command codes. That makes repairing bugs much easier, because if something is not working as programmed, it is usually a piece of bad code.

Command codes also make it easy to reset a mission or event after it has been played, but requires a lot of forethought compared to RedStone coding.  Redstone coding has the advantage, that it almost always includes a switch or more that start the event. Because Redstone machines are "Hard wired", as long as no dispensers are involved that require being refilled, it resets itself.  Where as, a command block machine needs a command block switch that begins the event, and then resets itself after a certain amount of time.  That can be tricky, depending on how complex the machine is, but command blocks make it possible to create complex machines much easier and in a tiny amount of space.

During the current and final beta testing of the Washington Has Fallen, Minecraft adventure, when we have to go in to fix a bug, we're also reviewing and inspecting its necessity by asking the following questions. 

• Is this event still needed?
• Can we change the way it was originally coded to make it work better?
• Does it still make sense in the storyline?
• Do we need to add more coding and additional features?
• Does this part of the mission flow well, or do we need to add in hints or NPC guides to provide more information about what is expected?
• Are there any final design changes to the buildings or mission that will improve its appearance?

As of May 15, 2022 we just completed "final" beta testing of Mission four and five.

Mission one, had minor redesigns but no new features.

Mission two, had no redesigns and no new coding because it is so simple.

Mission three, consists of four different sections, but only had minor redesign and minor recoding.

Mission four, is one of the entirely original world areas that didn't exist in Life Boat's Washington DC template.  It is one of the larger and more complex coding projects, consists of eight different sections. It received some major redesign, new coding, new features during it's final beta testing.

Mission Five we finished final beta testing early this morning. Similar to Mission four, Mission Five occurs in the US Capital, so it is quite large and expands over four floors of the building. This mission required significant recoding to make the sequence of events flow smoothly and reduce the error ratio. Some of the coding in Mission five uses timers to trigger events. Its largest mission features has to perform a bunch of events sequentially in a matter of seconds or the player gets killed and that particular mission gets messed up.  It's only been tested with a single player so far, and we learned during the original live team beta test that having multiple players doing missions together, often creates unintended events, especially when they occur in small spaces.  So it's possible, this mission may need to be revisited more in the future.  

There are still a whole lot more missions to test and fix.  How many?  That is a great question, because when we were designing Washington Has Fallen, we didn't have a set amount of missions in mind, just the story line.  So no one has counted yet.  We're actually counting as we do the final beta test.  A mission often contains five to six self contained missions. We're only counting the entire mission, since its basically like reading the chapter of a book, and sequintial.

For example, if I break down Mission three into the "tasks" or mini-missions required to finish it, it contains at least twenty different stages.

One problem is finding Minecraft players who want to test it, but even more so, is finding Minecraft players who will actually tell us the bugs they encounter. Most just want to try it out and get a basic idea of the adventure or try to look at the coding.  No one wants to actually contribute to helping use find the problems, so that means we are having to do the play through tests and then debug too.  Chances are high, we're only catching the big bugs.  The big bugs are the most important bugs, because they break the flow of the game and prevent moving forward to the next mission.  We built the adventure so it progresses. Most of the missions are locked until you finish the previous mission.  Some of the missions can be explored externally, which ultimately could mess up one or two of them that are dependent of moveable objects. It's possible that those may end up being fixed now that we moved to command coding events.

Check back later for more updates. 

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Minecraft Washington Has Fallen Adventure Mission 4 Update

Finished Debugging Minecraft Mission 4 in WashingtonHasFallen - get a peek at how a Not-gate works to create a hidden sliding door.

No new beta release update will come out until the Mission 5 updates are done. Shouldn't take to long hopefully, because there are only two or three reported bugs. The rest are navigational NPC's to help make the flow and time required to complete Mission 5 a little quicker. Mission 5 is honestly one of the more fun and surprising missions.

Mission 4 Final Debugging and Repair of Washington Has Fallen Minecraft Adventure Video on YouTube

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Easter Weekend 2022 Washington Has Fallen Minecraft Beta Release

New Public Beta Version H-4-15-22

Hey it's Easter Weekend, so we made sure to release a new public beta for the Washington Has Fallen Minecraft Adventure for Bedrock platforms.

Version H-4-15-22 fixes hundreds of bugs that were found in the Wuhan China Virus Mission. (We call it Wahoo in Minecraft, because otherwise progressive politicians and social media will whine and for some reason attempt to protect Dr. Fauci's government funded experiments in Wuhan China. Let's call it what it really is)

Get the updated version from our downloads page.

• This beta release introduces tons of new code for the Wahoo Mission.
• We spend an enormous amount of time hunting down some really tricky bugs and recoded them.
• One bug we couldn't figure out despite hundreds of hours, days and weeks of investigation, so we built around the bug, added in new code and created a new experience as a result. To be honest the bug actually ended up making that part of the mission more fun, have a better flow, and worked out really well.
• We had to rethink a few parts of the mission that we didn't consider when originally building the massive Wahoo Mission world.
• We tested the mission from beginning to end and everything seems to be working correctly now. There may be moments in this particular mission that it seems things kind of stand still or make the adventurer think a bug has occurred, but those are built in intentionally as part of the mission.
• This particular mission is that it is a massive puzzle that keeps changing while it's being played. If you have ever played the adventure game called Zork, you'll have a better understanding of what we did.

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The Hate and Hypocrisy in America and Washington is real.

 Yes, we're on Twitter

When RGAP Creative launched our website page indicating that we would be releasing the upcoming public beta of Washington Has Fallen parody adventure for Minecraft.  

By the next morning, our website had been taken down having been reported as a spam site by those who hate the message of the game.  "It's up to you, to make America, great again".

It is ironic, that there are those with hate and bitter ugliness in their souls who live their daily lives looking for opportunities to create a world in the image of their own internal darkness.

We see this permeating through Washington's progressive left public politics and policies, in their twisted attempt to turn citizens against each other by branding them haters, racists, Nazi's, fascists', etc.  

It is apparent that it has corrupted and divided America so deeply, it's very likely a civil war led by liberals is coming in the years ahead if this propaganda, manipulation and culture appropriation continues in politics.

There is an often quoted verse in the bible that essentially states - "A nation divided against itself will fall", and that is where we are today in the "United States".

The verse appears in the books of Matthew and Mark.

Matthew, 12:25: “And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand.”

Mark 3:25

If a house is divided against itself, it cannot stand.

RGAP Creative is on Twitter, there is perhaps no other social network where the dark evil residue continually permeates 24 hours a day.  It reminds me of the scene of the Matrix where Agent Smith is trying to get the hostage held, Morpheus to break.  Agent Smith becomes enraged because Morpheus is strong, he goes into this rant about how he hates the smell of the Matrix environment:

Agent Smith:

I'm going to be honest with you. I hate this place, this zoo, this prison, this reality, whatever you want to call it. I can't stand it any longer. It's the smell, if there is such a thing. I feel saturated by it. I can taste your stink and every time I do, I fear that I've somehow been infected by it.

 

 #CancelCulture on Twitter is like Agent Smith in the #Matrix

It's possible that our literal observation of this shift in the American culture and society as far back as 2009, is where all of our creative concepts began at some point.  After all, by the end of 2018, Washington Has Fallen had already been written, coded, designed.  We did do modifications and updates till the end of 2019 as Washington and American continued to unravel in ways never seen before.

We created a Minecraft adventure that mirrored real life events occurring, we created a storyline in that in many ways, turned out to be almost prophetic in several of the missions. We created things that hadn't happened yet, what amazing coincidences they turned out to be.

Our adventure is intentionally a parody, yet there are those who are so afraid of the national awakening of the Silent Majority and once passive Catholic and Christian communities, that even a non-fiction parody game about the kidnapping of the President Trump, with the goal of rescuing him and returning him to the White House, frightens them.

I believe we did a really good job encapsulating the political lunacy happening with cancel culture and the attack on the conservative and middle class throughout the entire game. It wasn't hard, we just watched the news each day and developed ideas from there.

Sorry to tell those of you who want to cancel us and censor our free speech. Were going to keep cranking away on the Washington Has Fallen Adventure until it's out of Beta and ready for uninterrupted fun on Minecraft.

Your attempts to shut us down, cancel us, call us names ultimately doesn't matter. Because we're not making any money off this awesome parody adventure for Minecraft.  So just stop bugging us.  If you're trying to censor us, impeded our free speech, or just be a plain old jerk, you should really take a hard honest look at your own life.  One day, its very possible you'll experience the "Boy who cried wolf" story and no one is going to come to help.

Whether you believe in God or Karma; Truth, Light, Exposure, always ends up coming.  So don't get caught with your pants around your knees.

And on that note, our Twitter Account is back online.  Did you really think Twitter is going to take an account down just for talking with others about Minecraft, discussing ideas with other Minecraft Developers, and posting updates about the Washington Has Fallen Parody Adventure Beta Test Progression?   

Well they didn't and even if they did, we're on other social networks too. If you don't like the game, maybe you shouldn't be playing Minecraft at all.

- Admin. RGAP Creative

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Wuhan Minecraft Lab Photos

Wuhan Lab in reality vs Minecraft

The Wuhan Lab in reality vs the Wuhan (Wahoo Lab) in The Washington Has Fallen Minecraft adventure. Our Virus lab looks better and has lots of viral monsters to attack you while you try to destroy it, before the virus reaches America

Mission 3 Wahoo Lab has multiple challenges that must be resolved to move to the next mission. In this photo, is the Outer Wall Ocean Gates. To open the gates, the player sits in a boat and has to kill mobs firing at them.

Wahoo (Wuhan) Powerplant controls the virus lab, so it must be destroyed in Washington Has Fallen Minecraft Adventure

This is a photo of the Castle Challenge in Washington Has Fallen - Minecraft Adventure - Public Beta Version

Wahoo "Wuhan" Minecraft Village near the Great Wall of China.

Wuhan Minecraft Village 

The Great Minecraft Wall of China and Wuhan (Wahoo) Ocean Fort

An early build of Wuhan Minecraft Lab

An Early Updated Minecraft Design of Wuhan Village, Virus Lab and Castle

Front Entrance to the Minecraft Wuhan (Wahoo) Virus Lab in China

Wahoo (Wuhan) Ocean Fort

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