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A passion project designed with many inspirations. Crafted and designed through many years.

The creator

Hello! My name is Rick and I have spent some years creating the world of Arora. Both the build in Minecraft and its universe in the website with its lore have been created by me.

I love to play games in a variety of genres in which I invest a lot of time. This project is the result of hundreds of hours in Minecraft, years of building since early 2021, and many inspirations. I hope you enjoy the world of Arora!

PixelRick

Downloads

Download the m​ap

Arora map

Version: ​1.0
Optimized for Minecraft 1.24.4+
No mods required
No texture pack required
Build with Faithful X32 or X64

Arora survival games

Version: ​0.1
Build a few years ago
Works on Minecraft 1.24.4+
No texture pack required
Build with Faithful X32 or X64

Download the m​ap

Inspirations

Escape from Tarkov

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EFT has been an inspiration in regards to the esthetic of big shady companies with research. Maps like Labs and Reserve have been an inspiration for some underground parts as well like bunkers and Arora Labs.

Half-Life universe

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My experience with games largely started with games like Hal-Life. Vast underground complexes with interesting scenes that can be explored. And of course, another big shady company with secret research... Black Mesa.

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Portal games

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In the same universe as Half-Life, some inspiration was found in the depths of the Aperture Science facilities. Just another shady company with secret research and interesting environments deep underground.

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Metro

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A unforgettable inspiration are the Metro games. The esthetic of large underground complexes with all of its secret passages to explore adds to the styles I apply to my build.

Grand Theft Auto V

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Many missions and heists in GTA V take place in large secret facilities which were also an inspiration to me. GTA V remains one of my most played games and added greatly to cool ideas for the build.

Helldivers II

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Some specific parts in my build have been inspired by Helldivers. Specifically the Interstellar Destroyers were heavily inspired by the ships from Helldivers. I pretty much just wanted to build the ship and added it to the build.

Commendations

Many thanks for support to the following:

Pexels

For some stock videos and pictures

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Flaticon

For some of the icons on the website

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EZGif

For some editing on gifs and videos that I used

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Odoo

For hosting this website

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And my good friend Youri

For hosting and maintaining the server I build on.

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And of course, you!

For checking my works and showing interest.

Please note that some content may have been created with AI.

This has been avoided as much as possible.

You can hover over icons and images to see if they have been generated by AI or created by other creators via the mentioned commendations above.
If nothing shows while hovering icons and images, then it has been created by me.
I have sadly not been able to commend or attribute videos the same way as the icons and pictures that were used.
Videos are from Pexels and were converted to gifs using EZGif except for that GIF on the main page which has been made by me.