this post was submitted on 13 Oct 2024
91 points (100.0% liked)
Linux Gaming
15892 readers
7 users here now
Gaming on the GNU/Linux operating system.
Recommended news sources:
Related chat:
Related Communities:
Please be nice to other members. Anyone not being nice will be banned. Keep it fun, respectful and just be awesome to each other.
founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Im always sceptical of name changes, because you trade a somewhat widespread known project name in for ....nothing.
In this case you trade it in for not being confused for Minecraft anymore though
I suppose. But I think, minetest as a project was strengthend by its proximity to minecraft. The big reason you pick up luanti is that its like minecraft, but free and with more modding freedom. I dont think this is bad thing to be reflected in a name. But good luck to them, maybe they can pull the name change off without hurting their public recognition too much.
I always thought minetest is a cheap minecraft clone, mainly for testing or smth.
So yeah, its a good name change
Yeah. I agree it's rough to lose existing recognition, but I think the
testin the name was hurting adoption quite a bit.When I tried
mineTestlast, I was thinking, "what the hell, this will amuse me for an afternoon."I did not expect a feature complete game engine with a better more polished game than vanilla MineCraft.
That was me after hearing MineClone and wanting to try it out. I was shocked how good it felt to play it (except for the soft lag and a bit clunky inventory)