Minecraft + Francophile = Outrageous Accents

At the beginning of the pandemic I started playing Minecraft. In fact, I play it a whole lot now. The cool thing about the game is that there is a whole world to be creative in. In fact, you can be creative outside of the world as well. I've done a few YouTube videos and will probably do more at some point. I've been streaming Minecraft on Twitch, almost exclusively. However, only recently did I decide to try my hand at making a resource pack for the game.

As a francophile, I thought it would be funny to make the villagers make stereotypical french sounds. Someone I play with cheered the idea on when I mentioned it. And thus, the Outrageous accent pack was born.

But how should I share this lark with the world. The player who cheered me on loved it when I sent it directly to her. She even shared it with some of the other people we play with. As a software engineer who is looking to make toy projects to learn different things, I decided to take it to Github.

At work, we use a specialized version of the build tool Bazel. I thought, it would be fun to overengineer a solution to package this add-on. As I thought about it, it seemed it would make it easy to package it for both the Bedrock and Java editions of Minecraft that way. In fact, it did.

So, today I have put out my initial (and maybe only) release for this add on on GitHub.

Outrageous Accents 0.0.2 Release

I have a few ideas of things I could do for this add-on. Or maybe, I’ll make other packs. I did like making a sound pack. My audio background and my desire to do silly voices had fun with this. Perhaps there are other areas of the game I could change the sounds for. I’m open to ideas.