Olympus News
These are the Celeste modding news that appeared in Olympus, a mod manager and installer for the Everest mod loader. The news feed is managed by touhoe and cellularAutomaton (touhoe and cellularautomaton on Discord), and published through the GitHub repository of the Everest website.
This news feed is also available in JSON format and as an RSS / Atom feed.
100 Consecutive Days Of Mapping?!
Published on September 15, 2024 The World Tower is a new 100 room map by Nyan where 1 minimum-size room was made every single day for 100 days! There are 10 unique checkpoints with completely distinct deco & entity palettes, and 2 original tracks by Freeka. The heights this map reaches in ingenuity & polish need to be played to be believed, go check it out below!
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Shadowdropping Mayhem!
Published on September 9, 2024 Over the past week, 2 new Celeste directs have dropped, featuring some banger new mods! And 4 of those mods are already on Gamebanana, including Green Bindweed Demo - an open-world beginner map, I Wanna Steal The Mechanic - a 30+ room gm map, vitheckery - a 15 room gm map with 300+ unique entities, & Chroma - a superfecta-like collab crafted by members of the Japanese community. Check all these maps out, but Chroma is linked below!
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A New Zucchini Contest Has Been Brewed!
Published on September 5, 2024 The 4th edition of Zucchini Contest, Perilous Potionscape, has hit the shelves with 24 concoctions, each brewed in only 8-ish hours. But that's not all! Each mapper spun The Wheel™ of over 500 prompts multiple times throughout the mapping period, leading to some deviously silly consequences. Go play this wildly magical contest with the link below!
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Over 20 Bits and/or Pieces Are Out Now!
Published on September 2, 2024 The Bits & Pieces Collab is a comfy collab that started in 2020, created by a bunch of people who hung out in Celestenet at the time. With over 20 maps and no distinct theme, there’s plenty of crazy & cool ideas, and it generally leans towards lower difficulties more-so than the average collab. Check it out below!
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Intermediate Contest is here!
Published on August 27, 2024 The Intermediate Contest is out! Hosted by Ru and Donker19, it features a lobby with 25 maps ranging from intermediate to somewhat harder. Check it out or read the judging results (courtesy of judges Ru, Donker19 and Banana23) via the link below!
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2024 Blind Race Maps Are Out!
Published on August 20, 2024 Both The Climate Crisis, made for Fangame Marathon, and Jellyfish Trilogy, made for Fangame Summer Feast, are out! TCC was made mainly by Tear, Spooooky, and Ricky06 with music from TyKim, while Jellyfish Trilogy was made mainly by Holia with music from q_is_sleeping. Both have 15+ extremely polished rooms of grandmaster, and both can be found in the Gamebanana collection linked below. Feel free to test your routing prowess, good luck, and have fun!
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Christmas in August!
Published on August 5, 2024 Secret Santa Collab 2024 is finally out! Featuring 61 maps across 3 lobbies, over 100 collaborators worked on this project. The gimmick of this collab is that each mapper wrote a prompt for their ideal gift & another mapper crafted it in secret. Each and every gift in this collab is packed with so much love & Christmas cheer, so don't waste time & go meet Granta below!
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Don’t Get Dizzy!
Published on August 1, 2024 For the final Music Translation Contest 2 post, the 3rd place entry is You Spin Me Round by CoryD! This funky map will have you bouncing & grooving to the legendary 80s hit with its unbelievably smooth setups & rhythmic usage of Grab Swap Blocks. Sporting over 20 rooms with glossy shades of purple & orange, you'll never wanna stop spinning! Check it out below!
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Theo… I’m going GOD MODE…
Published on July 31, 2024 Next in line in 2nd place for Music Translation Contest 2 is GOD MODE by Spooooky! This pulse-pounding map perfectly blends improvisational infinite dash free-for-alls with more straightforward & varied techspam. Dodging seekers at a breakneck pace in this intensely crimson factory, you’re bound to transcend humanity. Go give it a go in the link below!
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The Winning MTC2 Map!
Published on July 30, 2024 The Music Translation Contest 2 results are out, so it's time to showcase the top 3 winning maps here in Olympus News! First off, the 1st place entry (out of 124!) is bone skull by Donker19! Translating a song by glass beach featuring over 3000 lines of dialogue, this story-driven map takes you through a serene beach, a dilapidated neighborhood, and so much more. This map won for some very good reasons, which you can find out in the link below!
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The Most Sinister Lobby to Date...
Published on July 19, 2024 DEVIL'S DEN is a pack made in a month by tirednwired with six maps, six hearts, and six flowers. With some of the most post- conventional expert to grandmaster experiences, these maps effortlessly weave together straightforward techspam, light precision, & very wacky gimmicks. If you appreciate devilish tech, banger tunes, and remarkably graceful color schemes, go check this out below!
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A Collab Made Entirely by #celeste_modded!
Published on July 3, 2024 Collab General: The Lost Levels (or CGLL for short) is a collab where over 25 members of #celeste_modded each made one room of gameplay. Spanning 6 stunning checkpoints with varying themes & difficulties from Beginner to GM+1, this map displays each mapper’s individualistic talents & styles concisely throughout every single room. Check it out below!
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Go Fish!
Published on June 27, 2024 From NotPhobos comes a relaxing and beautifully cozy new map with puzzle elements. The twist? A fishing mechanic! Yes, you read that right: with the help of corkr900, zuccanium, and SSM (code) & Flamecrafter113, Spooooky, Yukio2904, and Aronh (art), all your fishing-related dreams have become "reel". Start casting your line with the link below!
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28 New Maps by Only 4 Mappers!
Published on June 25, 2024 The concept of "mapping weeks" has seen a resurgence, where a mapper will make 1 map per day for a week straight! In the past month, 4 of these weeks have been released, including Lira's Unkempt Week, Week of the Sauce, ABuffZucchini's Green Week, and SummitBadeline's Warily Week! Each of these weeks boasts innovative maps that efficiently convey cool ideas in only a few screens, check em out below!
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New 4* Shrimplist Map!
Published on June 16, 2024 Shrimptember 2nd is a late birthday map that got wackier and wackier the more it progressed in development! This shrimptastic map features Bounce Helper, custom Eevee Helper color block throwables, and guest rooms by goopvendor, BossSauce, Scribbles, Tear, and Scraggly1! It’s about grandmaster difficulty, so pack your krill and get ready to broil by clicking the link below!
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A Weekly Blind Race???
Published on June 10, 2024 Celeste Sightreading Competition is a weekly race hosted by touhoe, fonda1515, and Hydro where every Friday at 2 PM EST at Celeste Modding Central, you get to race a map blind (starting with a te_79 map)! Also, you have an additional 4 days to play whenever & submit an image of your journal to a form. Linked below is a website made by Aurora Aquir explaining a bit more about the event!
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A Debug Puzzle Map?
Published on June 2, 2024 FFFFF is a 50 room map using the debug F5 button that reloads screens as a primary mechanic! Each screen teaches you a new technique or interaction with short, clever, & very accessible puzzles (easier than dropzle, don’t be shy!). Also, see if you can spot all the hidden F letters embedded into the deco! Go check it out in the link below!
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Feeling Parched?
Published on May 22, 2024 Get to the bottom of a magical mountain's sudden recovery from three years of drought in this promising first entry in the "Missions from M.A.I.D." series! This intermediate to advanced map from the creator of Mt. Steep features a charmingly Wave Crystal gameplay style, custom deco, and an engaging original story with environmental themes. Your very own "journey of a thousand yellow cycles" can start with a single click on the link below!
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Vanilla Just Got Blessed With 190 New Rooms!
Published on May 11, 2024 Cdog's Extended C-Sides has just been released! Featuring 8 chapters mimicking the progression of B-Sides, this campaign spans hundreds of original rooms with a few twisty vanilla remixes sprinkled in! The short & perfectly deco-ed screens do a fantastic job of capturing the flow & style of vanilla while also making you think on your feet. Go re-live the start of your Celeste journey with the link below!
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May & June Mapping Prompt - Pick 2 Maps
Published on May 2, 2024 Here's yet another mapping prompt for tobyaaa and touhoe's bi-monthly system! The idea is "Pick Two Maps" - take two specific maps and combine them into something new. If you've mapped before, you probably have a load of maps in the scrap pile, and if you would like to use someone else's map, please obtain permission from the original mapper first! A video describing how it works is linked below!
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