GorgonExplorer

The Story

Project: Gorgon is a classless MMO where players mix and match combat skills, gear mods, and abilities to create unique builds. The community has built a solid set of tools over the years, but there wasn't a dedicated build planner that let players plan out their skill combinations, mod selections, and ability hotbars in one place.

GorgonExplorer fills that gap with a build planner as the flagship feature, a community build search, and browsable databases for game data like items, mods, recipes, and NPCs.

The app is fully serverless on AWS: a Hono API on Lambda, DynamoDB for build storage, game data synced from a CDN, and infrastructure managed with AWS CDK. Authentication supports both email/password and Google OAuth via Cognito.

Features

Build Planner

Select two combat skills, browse and assign mods to each equipment slot, configure ability hotbars with drag-and-drop, and see which mods enhance which abilities. Builds can be saved to your account, shared publicly, or copied from other players.

Build Search

Browse community builds filtered by skill combination, search by name or description, and copy interesting builds to use as a starting point for your own. Public builds are indexed and searchable across the entire user base.

Game Data Explorer

Sortable, filterable tables for items, mods, recipes, equipment, and NPCs. Powered by TanStack Table with full-text search, multi-select column filters, and rarity color coding. All data synced from the game's public data files.