well to be completly honest mineclone2 kinda sucks, is there more to it than just zombies and abandoned mineshafts ? . not seen any updates of late , have you abandoned it in light of the up and coming crafter ?
i think you are dead wrong MTG should be the showcase that intruduces newbies to the world of minetest after all it is a sandbox engine which should give the players the freedom to pick and choose from the wealth of ingenious mods that the community have created , the games featured are already outdated due to the lack of compatiblity with newer mods and utilities which breathe life back into older creations .take brutal doom for instance which done exactly that ,The first thing that most players will see is MTG. This is a HUGE problem. MTG is a thing for which core devs now agree that it's not even meant as a game, but more as a modding base. Sure, that's interesting for servers and nerds (I give you that), sure, but definitely not for newbies. MTG must stop being the default game. Instead, high-quality games must be showcased prominently.
A choice of well chosen compatible mods as a starter kit along with custom maps to highlight aspects , more focus on in game incentives the awards mods is an excellent example but it needs expanding . great things come in small packages as its all about the details. make them really shine . use them as the building blocks of the future .make everything compatible and interconecting . imagine finding a portal in game that promotes and entirely different aspect of gameplay that in turn leads you to the fully fledged game .
at present i am on the roof of my house in my sun room while angry wasps are battering agianst the glass . beyond are the grasslands where wild wolf packs are hunting down foxes , i got my eye on the badgers and hedgehogs foraging in the garden below .i see the ogres on the tundra are gradually roaming closer and are now taking out the wolf packs . i have no idea who the fellow in blue is who runs really fast , across the grassland hunting at night .............
And i say to myself what a wonderful varied world minetest is . and this is just singleplayer offline with a few tweaks but it does highlight the huge potential of minetest and what it could become . .
