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Introducing Our New Name

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Re: Introducing Our New Name

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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

Can recommend Glitch. A fun singleplayer parkour game with a story.

Re: Introducing Our New Name

#83
post #50
post #47

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Your dripping disdain for Bedrock seems pretty biased, and it seems like you have spent very little time with it. I’ve been playing it for a solid year because it’s what my kid can play (prefers touch controls) and the bedrock experience is light years away from a modern pay to win/in-game-currency focused game such as you’d find on a tablet. (To any reader: Skip the rest of this comment unless you are curious to hea…

> Bedrock supports simple LAN multiplayer! Java makes this > possible only if you have a real computer (server) and know > how. Any people playing Bedrock can play a LAN game with > zero preparation, even 3 consoles, a PC, and an iPad. You can do this with Java. After you start a new world you select "Open to LAN" in the settings menu. > Again I know there are a ton of free mods for Java but that whole scene has > be…

I was dead wrong about LAN, my bad. I happened to have seen that option just today as my son wanted to play a game of Hardcore.

Re: Introducing Our New Name

#84
post #77

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The "n" obscures the notional reference to "lua". "Lua" is two syllables, but "luan" is just one. The name makes me think 乱, not an element you'd want to include in the name of most projects.

Lu-anti seems like two syllables to me

Anti is two syllables, isn't it?

Re: Introducing Our New Name

#85
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

Most mods are for minetest_game, so if you pick a different base you can't use them all. I always just added a bunch of mods on top of minetest_game.
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