About

Welcome to Paddy's Dreamland, where imagination and innovation come to life. We are more than just a community—we're a living, breathing ecosystem of creators, dreamers, and doers united by a shared passion for storytelling, technology, and personal connection.

Whether you're here to immerse yourself in groundbreaking projects, participate in vibrant discussions, or simply find a place to belong, you've found your home. We are currently residing here if you want to join us!

Goals

At Paddy's Dreamland, our goals are simple yet impactful. Each week, we strive to create, connect, and cultivate a thriving, inclusive community. Here's how we do it:

• Innovate with Projects: We dedicate time to official projects like Fragmented Worlds: Source and Mirror's Edge Aurora. While completing projects isn't mandatory, they serve as opportunities to learn, experiment, and push creative boundaries. Every project is a stepping stone, a proof of concept that inspires us and others.
• Foster Community through Dreamland's Nook: The Nook is the heart of our community, hosting two weekly events where members can connect, collaborate, and share their experiences. This space includes:
• A forum for tackling challenges and exchanging ideas in a constructive, non-judgmental environment.
• Access to peer mentors who offer guidance and a listening ear for sensitive topics. Note: Our mentors are not licensed professionals, and this is not a substitute for professional advice. Dreamland's Nook is a supportive space for peer-to-peer interaction, not professional counseling.
• Create an Inclusive Environment: We prioritize building a comfortable and accepting space for everyone. Diversity and mutual respect are at the core of what we do.

Lore

The story begins with Aria, the brainchild of Hellfire Industries, a formidable company helmed by the enigmatic Skully Hellfire. Though their origins lay far from Earth, Hellfire Industries had a reputation that reached across galaxies. Their latest venture was "A.R.I.A. MK1", a prototype combat robot designed to safeguard their most precious assets. Her daily routine consisted of patrolling the territories surrounding Hellfire Industries, constantly looking out for threats.

One day, her mission expanded beyond the familiar grounds. She received orders to explore distant planets, gather samples, and report her findings back to her creators. Fate took a cruel twist when Aria's path brought her to Earth. Upon arrival, she was mistaken for a hostile entity and was mercilessly shot down by the military. Severely damaged and with her systems failing, Aria managed to drag herself to an obscure cave. There, she hid, broken, her battery slowly draining away. Unable to complete her mission or call for help, she became a lifeless shell, abandoned in the shadows of the cave.

History

Our community first started off as a Half-Life 2 Roleplay group with the name "CCA | Invasion Corporation," where we would develop our own Half-Life 2 Roleplay game on the Roblox platform. Later we've shifted to a community in the name of "Sublimity," where we continued with our Half-Life 2 Roleplay project, but also included services such as map commissions which involved importing Source engine map files directly to Roblox as accurately as possible.

Eventually, the passion for the project faded and was sold to another community to be continued in said community, this allowed us to try new themes and topics. We've shifted from Half-Life to a community, to a small company-like community which now produces indie games or other various projects, and also offers bunch of different services, we call it "Paddy's Dreamland."

Growth

If you like what we offer in Paddy's Dreamland and like the overall vibe, consider sharing our community with others. We're sure that they would love it here as well! We can always be found using https://discord.gg/paddysdreamland! If the invite doesn't work, try our fallback invite, https://discord.gg/sGvVynbFbt.

3rd of November 2024 — Custom Layers for Dynamic Music

You can now modify how the dynamic music behaves itself during initialization, that includes custom layers, and which layers start playing first. I have nothing else to say, I am tired. I am always tired.

— Drawing Pad [Administrator]

30th of October 2024 — Slight Header Revamp + Loading Screen

The titles in the header were constructed in a way that some old browsers couldn't render correctly, one of them being the Derma browser in Garry's Mod, which is often utilized MOTDs using ULX. On top of that, the sub-title is dynamic and would display different things every visit.

Last thing, I implemented a loading screen that is visible during the initial load of the website and will keep displaying itself until the website has loaded all necessary files such as fonts, images, etc.

— Drawing Pad [Administrator]

26th of October 2024 — Better Dynamic Music + Complete MEC Soundtracks

The player that handles the dynamic music has been improved, you can now stop tracks and pick another track without needing to refresh the page. This also makes PD more useful as a downloadable application itself. I have also added a loading indicator so it doesn't confuse anyone on why the tracks don't start playing instantly. Yes, my hosting provider isn't that good.

Additionally, I have completed and imported all Mirror's Edge Catalyst soundtracks to Paddy's Dreamland. Enjoy.

— Drawing Pad [Administrator]

24th of October 2024 — Media Queries

Media queries are here! Displaying Paddy's Dreamland on mobile devices should now be more visually appealing and comfortable, no more squinting.

— Drawing Pad [Administrator]

18th of October 2024 — Customization Settings

Yes, it's finally here! If the colors of the website are getting repetitive for you, especially if you don't like the rounded corners or want more rounded corners, you can change it here!

— Drawing Pad [Administrator]

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This gallery highlights iconic key moments in Paddy's Dreamland, you can also get a small taste of what our community is like. To get a better look at images, you might have to zoom in for now.

Paddy's Dreamland was initially designed to prevent users from zooming into the page as a design choice, as it uses pixels for the scaling and to render correctly. While I work on an image viewer for the gallery, that restriction has been disabled.

You're welcome to submit your own screenshots or other various imagery about Paddy's Dreamland, just post them in the ・𝗠emories channel in our Discord server, we won't bite!

Mirror's Edge™ Catalyst's soundtrack, made dynamic, entirely within the browser. I included visual feedback so you can see what happens with each individual layer, and layer mixing for more variety. Here's how it works:

• Use the main soundtrack selector to fill in the layer selectors, those will be used to "bake" the track.
• Then, after you've made your selection, just hit Start and enjoy listening.
• No refreshing needed, you can always hit Stop, select a new tracks and/or layers, and hit Play again.
• You can also download the active tracks and use them to replace the soundtracks in Mirror's Edge™ Catalyst.

All tracks used in this system are made by Magnus Birgersson, also known as Solar Fields.