Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Introducing Our New Name

blog.minetest.net

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

11–20 of 85 posts

Re: Introducing Our New Name

#11

Post by beeflet »

skybrian wrote: post #6

The main website lists lots of games that are built on Minetest / Luanti. [1] Does anyone have opinions on which of them are the most fun to play? [1] https://content.minetest.net/packages/?type=game

IDK a lot of the games feel really lame but there is this one CTF server that was fun. I might be too old for this stuff but I think it could be the next roblox if you could get it running inside of a webpage with WebGL.

Just scrolling through the list I found some interesting ones that really think outside the box (no pun intended), like this one that generates 3D-printable models.

https://content.minetest.net/packages/Warr1024/fdmcube/

Re: Introducing Our New Name

#12

Post by barrettondricka »

skybrian wrote: post #6

The main website lists lots of games that are built on Minetest / Luanti. [1] Does anyone have opinions on which of them are the most fun to play? [1] https://content.minetest.net/packages/?type=game

I haven't played much myself, but VoxeLibre (and Mineclonia) are pretty good Minecraft replicas.

My only complaint is mobile controls. Desktop is decent but the mobile version (off F-droid) leaves much to be desired.

Re: Introducing Our New Name

#13

Post by JoeyBananas »

beeflet wrote: post #3

The new name isn't great (too many vowels in the same place, you couldn't spell it if you heard it) but at least it's original and doesn't sound like it's a knockoff test implementation of minecraft anymore. Minetest is kind of a unique experiment in how modular a voxel game can be with mods. It's pretty cool. You just visit another server and it downloads and sets up all of the server's mods. You have dependencies a…

The barrier to having better physics is that better physics requires more complicated netcode.

It is also a long-standing precedent in Minetest that the default game is just a minimal skeleton. "Change the artstyle" is a misguided suggestion because there are very few assets that are part of Minetest and not a 3rd party minetest mod.

Re: Introducing Our New Name

#14

Post by barrettondricka »

Great, but I wish they invested their nomenclature resources into design and ease of access.

https://bloxd.io/ is currently reaping kids who can't afford official Minecraft. (Browser based, free, ad driven)

But then again, MineTest is a bunch of volunteers playing around with a tool, so you can't exactly force anybody to do anything.

Re: Introducing Our New Name

#15

Post by beachy »

Why would you choose a new name that you don't have the .com for?

How about voxelmod.com or something else that is a) relevant and b) the .com domain is available.

Re: Introducing Our New Name

#16

Post by JoeyBananas »

runjake wrote: post #5

Name is awful but game itself looks awesome. Can any speak to how “good” it is, especially server play?

Pretty much everything in Minetest is a 3rd party mod coded in Lua. It is viable, but you are limited by the netcode and the quality / integration of 3rd party mods.

Re: Introducing Our New Name

#17

Post by h2odragon »

When was this published? hard to keep up anymore

> We decided to avoid using “free” or “libre” in the name ... Projects like ... Godot are awesome, they don’t need to convince you about their libre nature by putting it in their names.

Re: Introducing Our New Name

#18

Post by Twirrim »

beeflet wrote: post #7
cortesoft wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> You just visit another server and it downloads and sets up all of the server's mods. That's how mods work in Minecraft bedrock

Minecraft Bedrock Edition is Microsoft's freemium children's game where you buy "mods" and "skins" using minecoins and you can visit a number of pre-approved pay-to-win servers or pay Microsoft to host a "server" for you and like 8 other people as long as you obey the microsoft guidelines and drink enough verification cans. You might be confusing it with a beloved viral indie PC game called Minecraft (2011) which is…

> or pay Microsoft to host a "server" for you and like 8 other people as long as you obey the microsoft guidelines and drink enough verification cans.

Or you can just run your own dedicated bedrock edition server, no need to pay anyone.

https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/download/server/bedrock

Re: Introducing Our New Name

#19

Post by nullstyle »

beeflet wrote: post #7
cortesoft wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> You just visit another server and it downloads and sets up all of the server's mods. That's how mods work in Minecraft bedrock

Minecraft Bedrock Edition is Microsoft's freemium children's game where you buy "mods" and "skins" using minecoins and you can visit a number of pre-approved pay-to-win servers or pay Microsoft to host a "server" for you and like 8 other people as long as you obey the microsoft guidelines and drink enough verification cans. You might be confusing it with a beloved viral indie PC game called Minecraft (2011) which is…

We all know Minecraft Bedrock edition, the children's game where I can actually play with my nieces and nephews confined to iPads and xboxes.

It is also beloved by many, but i'm sure those folks count as subhuman to you.

Re: Introducing Our New Name

#20

Post by luafox »

h2odragon wrote: post #17

When was this published? hard to keep up anymore > We decided to avoid using “free” or “libre” in the name ... Projects like ... Godot are awesome, they don’t need to convince you about their libre nature by putting it in their names.

This article was published today, October 13th, 2024.
Post reply on HN