Metaverse Maker Contest 2021 Winners & Honorable Mentions (part 2 of 2)

If you haven't read the part 1 yet, you can find it here:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/740250/view/4626878047727213964

[h2]Avatar: Accessories[/h2]

[h3]1st place - Badge Maker (by yakiringo & Rabbuttz)[/h3]
Ever wanted to put a bunch of pin up buttons on your avatar's clothing? This world make it very easy to make them! Simply drop in a picture in a frame and press a button for a pin up button to pop out.

It also features a box with camera so you can easily take picture of yourself, an image crop tool for any other pictures and tool to make the buttons easily attachable.

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[h3]2nd place - Shop MrSB (by komashiba)[/h3]
If you like Shiba-themed accessories this place is for you! This cozy shop has water bottles, backpacks, developer and LogiX tooltips, hats and glasses for your avatar!



[h3]3rd place - MultiStaff (by Eventide)[/h3]
Multi-tools are one of the staples of Neos and everybody's approach to them is different. This one takes form of a magical staff that has a number of different modes, combining some useful tools with fun functions like teleporting or invisibility.



[h2]Avatar: Misc [/h2]

[h3]1st place - Figure generator - フィギュア制作機 (by Team orange)[/h3]
The Figure Generator has taken Neos by storm before MMC was even over. With this utility you can easily create a little figure of yourself. Simply press a button and strike a pose! You can even take one with multiple users at once.



[h3]2nd place - Rusty Exosuit (by Rustybot)[/h3]
The Rusty Exosuit features probably the most unique avatar mechanic we've seen to date. When wearing this avatar, you can hold grip and secondary and high five another user. This will transfer the head and hands over to the user, essentially combining two users into one.

While you float as disembodied voice around the target user, they can use your hands as a blaster or a thruster to move around and shoot other users around the world. By floating away from them you disengage the mode. As a very cute detail, the namebadge will also combine the usernames like "Frooxius and Raith" for example.



[h3]3rd place - 立ち絵生成機 Standing image generator (by υμβραν)[/h3]
This utility makes it easy to capture a cutout of your avatar. It has a few functions to adjust the resolution and camera options. Simply stand on the podium, make adjustments, press a button and a cutout pops out!



[h2]Other: TAU[/h2]

[h3]1st place - Traffic system - Showcase (by The Science Team)[/h3]
The Traffic System is one of the most technically impressive entries of the whole MMC21. With this system you can build and edit nav-meshes in the environment and then add agents to them, that will follow the created paths. It has lots of customization options for the pathing as well as the agents and number of fancy features like collision avoidance.

This entry embodies what game development is about - building your own development tools. The world documents the process, shows off a number of experiments (and issues) and potential applications. It is definitely worth checking out.

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[h3]2nd place - LKGP Quilt Camera (by υμβραν)[/h3]
If you've heard of the Looking Glass holographic display then this world might be of interest to you, but it is generally a cool utility to play with. Instead of tranditional image it captures a simple light field. This can be displayed as a hologram both on the device itself, but also in Neos - giving you photos not only with sense of depth, but also some parallex, allowing you to look around them in a limited range.



[h3]3rd place - Bitbot Multitool (by Rustybot)[/h3]
Another creative approach to multi-tools, which has a number of cool features. It features a pen, developer and LogiX tooltip, but the most interesting part is the material gun - it has a storage mechanism, allowing you to put it a number of material orbs to carry around for quick access.



[h3]Honorable mentions[/h3]
Blue Inspector by rhenium - Inspectors are another popular tool in Neos for customization and this one features a number of cool additions - from numbers of children in the hierarchy display, quick contextual options, to easy resizing and adding of more panels
Create New 3DModel Plus by MotoMaid - One part that we haven't seen customized much yet is the "Create New" dialog, which made this entry quite unique. It adds a number of procedural shapes to the menu as well as handy animated previews

[h2]Other: Misc[/h2]

[h3]1st place - CytraX Studios - The Novahawk (by CytraX)[/h3]
Vehicles are another popular topic in Neos, so it's no surprise that we saw a number of them this MMC. The Novahawk is the most polished out of them all, featuring not only nice presentaation, but good set of controls for both VR and desktop, as well number of deparments in the vehicle itself. We also appreciated the open nature - for example the world contains the original .blend files that you can easily export if you'd like to make some edits or build upon it.

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[h3]2nd place - Terraforming simulator (by good_neighbour)[/h3]
For any lovers of strategy games this is something to check out. In this game your task is to terraform a planet. You have a number of tools at your disposal, from a branching tree of infrastructure to supplying the planet with natural resources. It can be quite challenging to play, but gripping once you get into it. The game has surprising amount of depth into its mechanics. We think it could benefit from more visualizations, like graphs to shows the progression of the different resources over time.



[h3]3rd place - Mechanical KeyBoard (by Team MK)[/h3]
Neos is all about customization and custom keyboards are one of them. This entry took this concept even further. Similarly to how some people build their own mechanical keyboards for real, this one allows you to build out your own inside of Neos! Combining different bases, switches and keycaps, you can make a functional keyboard with unique sounds and behaviors by assembling it together inside of VR.



[h3]Honorable mentions[/h3]
DIY Tool by guheheP - this world/tool takes a very unique approach to building in Neos - instead of abstract tools, you use a saw and drill to build things together. It's a very fun approach to building inside of VR, one that makes the whole process a lot more physical.
Inside Neos by G59 - a beautiful piece of art created completely in Neos! It depitcs a Neos logo composed from Neos-related terms. Every single drawing is unique too - this world must've taken a lot of time and patience, so definitely check it out!


[h2]Meme[/h2]

[h3]1st place - The Sphere Detector (by Bunny team)[/h3]
With the murder timely death by old age of the Sphere Detector node a number of questions arose in the community - what is a sphere? This entry recaptures the glory days of being able to tell apart spheres from non-spheres and proves once more the power of community in Neos VR to build the tools they need for every day function.

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[h3]2nd place - Finger Universe (by Danyy59)[/h3]
Have you ever wondered what would the world be like if everything was a finger? Wonder no more, for in this world you'll explore such universe, collecting a full hand to open secret treasures of finger jokes.



[h3]3rd place - Cool Genius Stylish Spaghetti LogixTip (by MotoMaid)[/h3]
This custom LogiX tooltip allows you to literally embody spaghetti code and mentally scar anyone you encounter into organizing their code properly.



[h3]Honorable mentions[/h3]
Albert** - Team: Warp-Gate - "There is no reset button. You destroyed the universe." - it lies!