[WIP Game] Mars

[Quercus]

Mars is a game set on the planet Mars.

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It is still in a pre-alpha stage, and it being developed, though it is playable.
I'd appreciate feedback on it.

Already Implemented
- landscape generation
- crafting objects
- ore generation
- synthesiser to create new objects
- chests
- placeable batteries, drills and other tech
- ladders and doors

3rd-party mods
- i3 inventory system
- screwdriver
- awards

In Progress
- solar charger (currently basically a furnace)
- fix the formspecs so they look nice and not weird

Todo
- the player spawns in their crashed/landed spaceship
- add a hydroponics bay
- generate water somehow - either underground pockets or as ice that can be melted
- terraform the planet?

I've only tested it on a Linux machine, but it should work on other OSes.

You can find the files here:
https://github.com/kingdunadd/Mars

[ronoaldo]

This is something I was willing to build. Would you like some contribution?

I can host a "test server" for it, so players can experience online.

[debiankaios]

Cool, i do also a Planet-Game. Proxima-Centauri B. Can i use somecode from you?

[Mantar]

Huh. Good question, debiankaios. Hey, Quercus, can you specify what license you're using?

[Quercus]

I used a lot of code from other people/minetest game, so I think the license that applies here is either the MIT license or the GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1, depending on which bit of code you're talking about.

The textures I made (which is all ones begining with 'mars_') are under Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)

I'm not entirely sure how licensing/copyright works though.

[Quercus]

Cool, i do also a Planet-Game. Proxima-Centauri B. Can i use somecode from you?

Which code are you wanting to use?
If it's something I wrote myself I can try and help you.

[Quercus]

This is something I was willing to build. Would you like some contribution?

I can host a "test server" for it, so players can experience online.

I would be happy for anyone else to contribute!
(Especially on the formspecs if you have any idea how they work - I am so confused by them)

And I don't mind if you host a server. As far as I know multiplayer should work fine - I've only tested local multiplayer.

[MisterE]

some advice for licencing... gpl is more restictive than mit. if you have both gpl and mit cooe in the same mod then you can use the more restrictive license (gpl). If the mod is all code you wrote yourself, then the license is your choice but I suggest MIT. You should license by mod, and give credit to subtantial sources in the licese or readme file. media should be licensed seprately, just paste the name of the media and the media's author with the given license in the readme or license file.

these are suggestions not legal advice. if you do not tackle licensing then noone is legally allowed to dowload you game. it only requires a little research, and you should simply try your best...
if someone has an issue with the way you did it they will let you know and you can change it.

[Quercus]

I added a license to the mars mod code.
The code is under the MIT license and the media is under CC BY-SA 4.0
If you go into the folders for the other mods used there are licenses there.

[Mantar]

Anything GPLed has to remain GPLed, you can't relicense it as MIT, though you can go the other direction. Combined works of GPL and MIT should be released under the GPL as a whole, but the individual MIT components themselves can remain under MIT, and can then be pulled out and used under that license.

[MisterE]

I added a license to the mars mod code.
The code is under the MIT license and the media is under CC BY-SA 4.0
If you go into the folders for the other mods used there are licenses there.

looking at the repo changes, you only added the MIT license to your own mod. This is good. It means that your mod is licensed, and the other mods retain their license. For the entire game, as Mantar pointed out, you can use the most restrictive license used, which is GPL. But if each mod has a license already, then you dont really need to declare a gamewide license imo

The only possible problem is, if in *your* custom mod, you used significant amounts of code from a GPL licensed mod, then you would have to license your mod GPL according to the license of the mod you got the code from. You can still include code from mit-licensed mods in a gpl-licensed mod.
But if your custom mod is all your own work, and you did not use a significant amount of code from a gpl-licensed mod, then you are free to license it as you like, and MIT is fine.

I hope this is fairly understandable

[debiankaios]

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ModError: Failed to load and run script from /home/debiankaios/.minetest/games/Mars/mods/i3/init.lua:
/home/debiankaios/.minetest/games/Mars/mods/i3/init.lua:2696: attempt to call a nil value
stack traceback:
	/home/debiankaios/.minetest/games/Mars/mods/i3/init.lua:2696: in main chunk
Siehe debug.txt für Details.

[debiankaios]

O, i had 5.3.0 and i3 needs 5.4.1 or higher.