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.
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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The sequel to Music Translation Contest has begun!
Published on April 21, 2024 The goal of MTC 2, similar to the original MTC, is to express the emotions, feelings, vibes, etc. of a particular song in a Celeste map. When you close your eyes listening to your favorite song, what do you see? What do you feel? Map the colors you feel, the motion you feel, whatever you see in your mind, make it real. MTC 2 will take place over a month, and you are required to make a C-Side length or longer map with any song of your choice. Check out the Gamebanana Jam page for the full rules!
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Celeste Awards Ceremony!
Published on April 15, 2024 Touhoe here to finally announce that the Modded Celeste Awards will be held live on Saturday, 2:00 PM EST at the Celeste Modding Central youtube channel linked below! This livestream won't be about tearing down or propping specific people up on a pedestal, but instead celebrating all the incredible, thoughtful, and beautiful art that modders pour tens, hundreds, or even thousands of hours to create! I hope you give the event a chance and have some fun in the upcoming festivities :peaceline~2:
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Throwback Thursday 019 - Gauntlet (Re)Revamped
Published on April 11, 2024 Percussive, the developer of String from Spring Collab, developed the orginal Gauntlet map over 6 years ago & revamped it a year later in Gauntlet Revamped, a small hub of short, cycle-based challenges with plenty of different environments! Today, FasolTheBean has revamped it again, making it a bit more accessible & clean yet still undeniably classic, old-school cycle gameplay! Check it out in the link below!
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The beginning has just begun!
Published on April 5, 2024 Finally coming out after an extended development, the Beginner Collab will have you jumping for joy! Get ready to dive into ravines, scale skyscrapers, and underground your rainforest in 20 new maps for new players. Complete with classic amenities like Mini Hearts and Journals, the collab also features exciting new concepts like Purple Maps, which aren't beginner, along with nearly an hour of new music! Go check it all out at the link below!
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Please, listen to the wind.
Published on April 2, 2024 The Road to Purgation is a new 10+ room Grandmaster+ map based on the song "The Road to Purgation" from Final Fantasy X. Having placed over 30,000 decals, Sapphire_Xer0 crafts a chillingly beautiful atmosphere in this very demanding, story-driven map that is snow-packed with some of the cleanest and most flowy wind gameplay to date. Download it with the link below!
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Prep Your Ponchos For A Set of Sprawling Ruins!
Published on March 29, 2024 2 new incredibly beautiful maps just graced this upcoming weekend! Advanced players can rejoice with 50+ rooms of Drizzle, a journey through mossy ruins soaked in complex climbing, custom mechanics, & lore! For grandmaster bounce helper fanatics, prepare to get awed by the equally stunning, 30+ room aerial odyssey that is Wonderland Vale, which you can find on the front page of GameBanana! Drizzle is linked below, check ‘em out!
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Catfish Collab Has Been Released!
Published on March 24, 2024 Do you like cats? How about fish? Well, in this quirky collab, you'll come to love both! Choose your pick of the litter among 11 Cat-Themed maps, or swim among a school of another 11 Fish-Themed maps. With 22 custom-made songs, the soundtrack adds up to about an hour of banger tunes! Get comfy and become one with nature by downloading the collab in the link below!
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Don't lose your footing in this topsy-turvy map!
Published on March 24, 2024 Strap in and buckle up for a new standalone collaboration between ABuffZucchini, Kazt, and goopvendor: swingswung! Despite being 99% techless, this advanced vanilla map still throws plenty of tricky, fishy moves your way that will keep you wondering: "which stallion made THIS banger of a room???" Check it out with the link below!
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Halloween Came Early This Year!
Published on March 9, 2024 Explore an eerie abandoned mansion in this new beginner map inspired by Little Nightmares! Created by NotPhobos, the atmospheric exploration through the facility contains over 15 berries! Download it with the link below, but be warned, there is a lot more than meets the eye…
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Published on March 6, 2024 This next two months' mapping prompt is "Cutting Corners"! There are a ton of ways to interpret this, so if you need a map idea, there's plenty of potential in this one for both story & gameplay! Here's a link to all the standalones created for the last theme, "Locked Away":
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