Minetest

What is Minetest?

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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.

Why Minetest?

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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.

What is Open Source?

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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.

Why Open Source?

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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”.

Is Your Computer Fast Enough to Run It?

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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.

The Cons of Me Doing It.

Their are a number of things that could go wrong with my being responsible for doing it however. For example, as I am an Amerikkkan, it is entirely possible that this will be taken down, especialy seeing as the only way I would be able to afford to do this is via a $100 credit I have received for Linode, an Amerikkan cloud provider that would host my server. Furthermore, I am inexperienced with hosting anything online like this, so my ability to correct for DDoS attacks, trolls, and other internet shenanigans would be minimal, leading to long and frequent down times. Finally, as I would be operating this server alone, when I am sleeping or unavailable for work/school/etc any problems in the server would permeate while I’m unable to correct any of it.

  • pancake@lemmy.ml
    7·
    2 years ago

    Really cool! I occasionally find time to develop my game, Nodeverse, but have not otherwise played a whole lot. It will be nice to play alongside y’all though. I 100% support this.

    • sparkingcircuitOP
      4·
      2 years ago

      I’d never heard of Nodeverse. It looks quite fun! I’m hope to play it soon!

  • Makan
    5·
    2 years ago

    “Open Source software is in essence, socialism applied to software.”

    Naaaahhhh

  • The Free Penguin
    4·
    2 years ago

    What mod do u use for the flags? Also is there a flag mod that lets you make your own flags banner-style like in minecraft?

    • sparkingcircuitOP
      2·
      2 years ago

      I’m using the “Pride Flags” and “Country Flags for Pride Flags” for the flags. I do not know if their is such a mod for the uploading of custom flags like that, though I imagine it wouldn’t be to hard to develop if you are up to it.

  • FuckBigTech347
    4·
    2 years ago

    If this happens to become a reality I would absolutely love to play with you comrades. Been a Minetest player for 2 years now (I used to run a private server with hundreds of technic related mods for some time) but it’s always more fun to play with other people.

  • lil_tank
    4·
    2 years ago

    Oh nice it’s a Lua API, it’s the language I have the most experience with

    • sparkingcircuitOP
      3·
      2 years ago

      I hope you have fun playing with the it. I’ve been thinking of making a mod/game for Minetest, but my familiarity with Lua is minimal. I have heard it is similar to C in some respects though, so maybe it wont be so hard to learn.