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by Zughy
Thu Feb 08, 2024 21:03
Forum: News
Topic: Minetest will be at FOSDEM 2024!
Replies: 17
Views: 8529

Re: Minetest will be at FOSDEM 2024!

Nekrofage wrote:
Wed Feb 07, 2024 19:05
Hi !!

I was at FOSDEM the last weekend, i was very surprised to see a Minetest stand !!! O_O
Hehehe, we're everywhere :D thanks for passing by!
by Zughy
Sat Jan 06, 2024 01:47
Forum: News
Topic: 2023 Minetest GAME JAM (December 1st-21st) [Theme: "UNEXPECTED"] [$300] jam.minetest.net
Replies: 51
Views: 11072

Re: 2023 Minetest GAME JAM (December 1st-21st) [Theme: "UNEXPECTED"] [$300] jam.minetest.net

By the way: I have to be honest, but I really hated this year's theme. :-( I mostly ignored it (and apparently, many others to), had no real idea what to do with it, so I basically just forced the theme into the story of my game. Which raises another point: what's the point of giving a theme if peo...
by Zughy
Fri Dec 22, 2023 22:40
Forum: News
Topic: 2023 Minetest GAME JAM (December 1st-21st) [Theme: "UNEXPECTED"] [$300] jam.minetest.net
Replies: 51
Views: 11072

Re: 2023 Minetest GAME JAM (December 1st-21st) [Theme: "UNEXPECTED"] [$300] jam.minetest.net

I've noticed only now that the vote is entirely community-driven. I find this a very *very* stupid move, as it lets an undefined mass of people choose who has to win. Considering there is also a money prize, I expect people with experience in game design/Minetest to have a saying on these games, not...
by Zughy
Fri Dec 08, 2023 23:25
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Defragmenting the Minetest community
Replies: 36
Views: 7918

Re: Defragmenting the Minetest community

Matrix should be a first class citizen. An open source game, with open source advocates deserves a focus on open source software. 100 times this (I would have said "free software" but it's not the point) Supporting Lemmy would send a strong message of support. Open source software stands ...
by Zughy
Mon Dec 04, 2023 19:20
Forum: News
Topic: Minetest 5.8.0
Replies: 29
Views: 12892

Re: Minetest 5.8.0

Let's goooooooooo
by Zughy
Tue Nov 21, 2023 19:11
Forum: Feature Discussion
Topic: Idea: advertisements in ContentDB
Replies: 20
Views: 2481

Re: Idea: advertisements in ContentDB

The reason why many mods are low quality is because people are making them for fun. Providing an incentive to make mods will significantly increase the quality of mods. There could be a certain percentage of the ad revenue that would go to the engine developers. That's not true: I know at least 3 p...
by Zughy
Fri Nov 17, 2023 00:25
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: How do we increase modder involvement in engine development?
Replies: 25
Views: 4086

Re: How do we increase modder involvement in engine development?

ancientmariner wrote:
Thu Nov 16, 2023 18:54
Thank you. I appreciate that you considered this point. I think you raise a very good point.
https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues/14004
by Zughy
Thu Nov 16, 2023 14:51
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: How do we increase modder involvement in engine development?
Replies: 25
Views: 4086

Re: How do we increase modder involvement in engine development?

So to raise a PR in minetest, you effectively have to ask very nicely, and wait for very busy core devs (who don't have time to review) to go through the issues and find yours, and support it, not just once, but twice. I don't think you realise how welcoming that is. When people have the motivation...
by Zughy
Wed Nov 15, 2023 22:31
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: How do we increase modder involvement in engine development?
Replies: 25
Views: 4086

Re: How do we increase modder involvement in engine development?

First of all, thanks for reaching out, ancientmariner. I'll try to share my 2 cents here as a Minetest staff member (triager, not core dev, but anyway): If Minetest actually cares about users think, they could consider the following: Stop treating the roadmap as a religion. Treat it as a guideline i...
by Zughy
Tue Oct 10, 2023 16:03
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Community Voting vs Judges (2023 Jam)
Replies: 1
Views: 1023

Re: Community Voting vs Judges (2023 Jam)

I think the voting system shouldn't be handed to the community. One practical reason is the issue regarding the Minetest new name suggestion: https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues/13510; where, despite the «names outside the "voxel" and "free/open" nature are encouraged (e....
by Zughy
Sun Sep 10, 2023 22:11
Forum: Game Discussion
Topic: Seeking Developers for Game Modes in District 53 (Minetest Fork)
Replies: 3
Views: 809

Re: Seeking Developers for Game Modes in District 53 (Minetest Fork)

Hello, Giov4 and I are interested in the tower defense and the battle royale projects. Regarding our Minetest portfolio, you can either check out our minigames server "A.E.S." or our contentDB profiles 1. https://content.minetest.net/packages/?author=giov4 2. https://content.minetest.net/p...
by Zughy
Sun Jul 30, 2023 00:34
Forum: Servers
Topic: [Server 5.6.0] [minigames] A.E.S.
Replies: 65
Views: 16458

Re: [Server 5.6.0] [minigames] A.E.S.

Bumping this post just to say that we've got a (WIP) website now and that all the fun happens on our Matrix! I basically don't check this topic anymore

Website: https://aes.land/
Matrix: https://matrix.to/#/#arcadeemulationserver:matrix.org
by Zughy
Sun Jul 30, 2023 00:30
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Minetest's Dirty little secret. It's for creators not players
Replies: 19
Views: 2290

Re: Minetest's Dirty little secret. It's for creators not players

Blockhead wrote:
Sat Jul 22, 2023 02:55
But there are a number of other projects with ambitions, like Your-Land (even though it's modded Minetest Game) and A.E.S Minigames. These are a lot better than your run-of-the-mill MTG mod soup server.
<3
by Zughy
Fri May 26, 2023 12:27
Forum: News
Topic: ContentDB is 5 today
Replies: 20
Views: 6318

Re: ContentDB is 5 today

Congratulations!
by Zughy
Fri May 26, 2023 12:25
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: 3 reasons to *not* rename Minetest
Replies: 36
Views: 3995

Re: 3 reasons to *not* rename Minetest

In reference to: https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues/13510 (Where discussion of the topic is banned?!?) Hello, issue creator here: the discussion is banned because the goal of the issue is to provide suggestions, not feedback about whether Minetest is a good name or not (the topic is surely...
by Zughy
Sat Apr 08, 2023 22:09
Forum: News
Topic: Minetest 5.7.0
Replies: 34
Views: 7355

Re: Minetest 5.7.0

LET'S GO!
by Zughy
Mon Feb 06, 2023 01:07
Forum: News
Topic: Jude Melton-Houghton (TurkeyMcMac / jwmhjwmh)
Replies: 25
Views: 11474

Re: Jude Melton-Houghton (TurkeyMcMac / jwmhjwmh)

It really saddens me to hear the news, as Jude was one of the most human people this community has ever had. Not once I've seen him misbehaving, always setting a good example of kindness and professionalism in a place where contrasts can happen. I offer my most sincere condolences to the family, and...
by Zughy
Tue Dec 20, 2022 18:25
Forum: Modding Discussion
Topic: Texture editing apps
Replies: 17
Views: 2417

Re: Texture editing apps

Talking about free software, you should consider LibreSprite, an Aseprite fork (which became proprietary in 2016). Developing is back again and we're killing it :D (I'm a maintainer) We'll soon release 1.0, but in the meanwhile you can either download the previous version from the official site (ht...
by Zughy
Tue Oct 25, 2022 16:30
Forum: News
Topic: 2022 Minetest GAME JAM [November 1st-21st] [$300 in Prizes]
Replies: 120
Views: 33556

Re: 2022 Minetest GAME JAM [November 1st-21st] [$$$]

Once again, ContentDB already disqualifies pretty much all proprietary content. My misunderstanding originated from this entry from last year => https://content.minetest.net/packages/JALdMIC/survivethedays/, where I thought that "proprietary" meant fully proprietary as there is no "s...
by Zughy
Tue Oct 25, 2022 15:40
Forum: News
Topic: 2022 Minetest GAME JAM [November 1st-21st] [$300 in Prizes]
Replies: 120
Views: 33556

Re: 2022 Minetest GAME JAM [November 1st-21st] [$$$]

I could not care less if a game is open source, proprietary, or nonfree if it doesn't function. However, wouldn't you care less if a game is great, yet proprietary? Would you be happy to give $300 to some super fun yet proprietary game, instead of incentivising free software distribution? Personall...
by Zughy
Mon Oct 24, 2022 22:28
Forum: News
Topic: 2022 Minetest GAME JAM [November 1st-21st] [$300 in Prizes]
Replies: 120
Views: 33556

Re: 2022 Minetest GAME JAM [November 1st-21st] [$$$]

I'm so happy to see this happening again, but I'm completely against the fact that developing a free software game is awarded with just two points (the lowest bonus of it all). For proprietary code/content I'd expect either a ban from the competition, or at least a big penalty, since we're talking a...
by Zughy
Wed Sep 21, 2022 22:28
Forum: Servers
Topic: [Server 5.6.0] [minigames] A.E.S.
Replies: 65
Views: 16458

Re: [Server 5.6.0] [minigames] A.E.S.

🔫 TIME TO GO PEW PEW AGAIN WITH THE NEXT BLOCK LEAGUE TOURNAMENT 🔫 Violence is bad. WHEN YOU'RE THE ONE RECEIVING IT: MERCILESS MOW DOWN YOUR ENEMIES IN THE NEW BLOCK LEAGUE TOURNAMENT AND SHOW THEM WHAT YOU'VE GOT. They say we'll have a new mechanic this time: are you up for the challenge? ❓ 8 team...
by Zughy
Mon Sep 19, 2022 21:05
Forum: News
Topic: Minetest 5.6.1
Replies: 37
Views: 26748

Re: Minetest 5.6.1

Congratulations everyone <3
by Zughy
Fri Aug 19, 2022 12:49
Forum: Servers
Topic: [Server 5.6.0] [minigames] A.E.S.
Replies: 65
Views: 16458

Re: [Server 5.6.0] [minigames] A.E.S.

UP There have been a lot of updates on the server, first of all the arenas status tracker on the right. You don't have to wonder anymore where all the players are :D https://matrix-client.matrix.org/_matrix/media/r0/download/matrix.org/fXydKxHfdKSmWaegrDxYFDIh Also thanks to Alfaro Gaming, who made ...