Native Mod
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WARNING : you need to have finished the game already, or this will spoil everything
Create a native mod

Here we will teach you how to turn the whole Aquaria game into a mod, allowing you to edit every Aquaria maps and see how things are done.

    Create a new mod (in _mods, duplicate aquariaTemplate, and rename it to AquariaMod, same thing for the xml file, change descriptions in the xml file).
    Replace the maps directory with Aquaria\data\maps
    Replace the tilesets directory with Aquaria\data\tilesets
    Copy every node_*.lua files from Aquaria\scripts\maps to scripts
    Replace entitygroups.txt with Aquaria\scripts\entities\entitygroups.txt (allows you to add any creature)
    Edit mod-init.lua, replace loadMap("Template") by loadMap("naijacave") 

That's it ! When you run your mod you should start with the introduction in Naija's cave, but you can hit tab and edit the map. Obviously you won't edit the game, but a copy of it. 

Description:

Alrighty, here it is. This as far as I know is a fully functional version of the native Aquaria main game, in a mod. The only thing I know you can't do is view the world map, which you just can't do in any mod untill further notice (this little detail could make playing the whole game this way rather annoying as you wont know where you have or have not been, unless you cheat and look using the editor menu xD ).

But anyway, here is a real template mod you can use to make anything you want that uses tiles, entities, scripts, music, sounds and maps from native Aquaria.

You could even make the game easier/harder simply by adding or removing enemies from the maps. Anyone with a wife of girlfriend who likes the game but not all the fighting, this is your chance.  Grin I do recomend an organised attempt at changing the game like this though; getting one person to do this area's maps, and another to do another area, etc. It'd be a pretty big job for just one person. And of course you'd then upload it with a nice topic about it so that other people could just use your one rather than make their own. Smiley (and add it to the mods list topic too Wink ).

Mad props to Alec for making this possible. You're a legend man.  Cool