Minetest is an open source voxel engine, designed for the creation of games in the same vain as Minecraft. In doing so it has a preinstalled, built in game, and vary mature modding API, that allows for the easy creation of mods/games. Furthermore, Minetest’s built in game is in a mature state, that is fun to play with or without the aid of mods.

The reasoning behind why I chose Minetest is as follows:

1. Minetest is Open Source
2. Minetest requires few system resources to run properly
3. Minetest’s main game play loop is that of building/construction, a desire I imagine most of us would like to be able to play with more.

Open Source software must make the source code for it freely available, and allow the recipient of it to distribute that source code accordingly. Furthermore, that copy of their source code may be modified by them according to their wishes, without the need to ask for permission from it’s original creator. These principles, enforced through the software licenses that use them, have allowed for the community driven development that created the likes of Lemmy, Linux, Android (Largely), VLC Media Player, and more have lead to stable and largely enjoyable user experiences for all of us, in a secure, community driven manner that benefits all of us.

The attributes described above allowed us to build our community around this wonderful piece of software (Lemmy), even without prior consent from it’s own creators, or being kicked off for being “dirty reds”.

I’ve gotten the game to run on a laptop with a single core Intel Atom processor with 1GB of RAM, so in all likely hood, you should be able to get this game running on your machine.