Goodbye

[wilkgr76]

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They took code of me without giving credit, while I spend sometimes a lot time to develop polished and/or new features. Even more bitter it was when features I implemented first and published got not even noticed and those ppl that copied it got the attention for it. That behavior made me change my licenses to more and more restrictive ones, ending up in a modiefied z-lib license at the end. But even this didn't stop some ppl and even though I still angry on some I won't tell names.

Simple:

You will be missed, BlockMen

Who will be next?

[rubberduck]

What happens with his subgame(s), I like Wasteland and it needs someone to maintain it...

and such great mods
like
Torches
Pyramids

[benrob0329]

IMO the MT style torches from his mod should be merged with default.

[MineYoshi]

Yes i think that should be make!

[lol34]

That is bad that you are leaving. Maybe it is a game like minecraft but it will never be the same, because of the pistons and the mobs. Can someone tell me what mob is that purple ball in the deserts at night? Good luck!!!

[kaadmy]

@lol34 Minetest isn't supposed to be a game replicating Minec***t, it's supposed to be an engine. Which is another reason BlockMen left, because it's starting to turn into a "How can we make this suit Minec***t games better?" engine now.

[veriaqa]

@lol34 Minetest isn't supposed to be a game replicating Minec***t, it's supposed to be an engine. Which is another reason BlockMen left, because it's starting to turn into a "How can we make this suit Minec***t games better?" engine now.

Yes this! Althought I still play it, I don't like how the project's direction now.

[snowflake]

Bye Block Men..

Hope you have a nice future :)

[BrunoMine]

The discontinuity of the CME will be tragic for me. This is unfortunate. I enjoyed this work.

[tomlukeywood]

Goodbye and thanks for your work!

but I would like to point out that making your software more restrictive is not the answer to people taking credit for your work and unfortunately as far as minetest mods go I have no idea how to stop people from doing so without creating a restrictive internet which would do more bad than good.

How to deal with people taking credit for your work

the only thing I can think to do is report the issue to the minetest forums admins if they have posted the mod on minetest forums

but also I found these articles which may be useful when others take unjust credit:
http://personalexcellence.co/blog/take-credit/
http://www.thoughtleadersllc.com/2011/0 ... your-work/

[pithy]

For those who miss BlockMen, BlockMen can always be with you with this mod viewtopic.php?f=9&t=15363

[u34]

+1

[Wuzzy]

They took code of me without giving credit, while I spend sometimes a lot time to develop polished and/or new features. Even more bitter it was when features I implemented first and published got not even noticed and those ppl that copied it got the attention for it. That behavior made me change my licenses to more and more restrictive ones, ending up in a modiefied z-lib license at the end. But even this didn't stop some ppl and even though I still angry on some I won't tell names.

I think BlockMen is a bit unfair to us modders here. BlockMen started with WTFPL for many mods, so it is a little bit strange to complain later that people don't give credit. I am not sure if the original threads at least made a reqeust (no demand) for giving credit.
BlockMen changed the licenses mostly silently so I suspect many people weren't even aware they were suddenlty using non-WTFPL code. After all, licenses don't change that often.
And in regarding the “wrong” people who got all the attention: wouldn't have a single post by you cleared it all up?

[azekill_DIABLO]

i've always gave credits to block men in my mods using part of his code

[TailsTheFoxDoes MT]

i've always gave credits to block men in my mods using part of his code

yeah +1 to you azekill_DIABOLO!

[azekill_DIABLO]

why me.

[Spaghetti Developer]

Blockmen has clarified perfectly the problem that plagues the Minetest project. I'm sorry it went off, he was one of the few teams to have the right ideas and innovative.