How did you discover Minetest?
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How did you discover Minetest?
I thought it would be interesting to see how people found out about Minetest. As for me, I found it when I was searching the AUR for minecraft and saw an entry for a minecraft clone. I wasn't expecting it to be any good, but I installed and tried it anyway; I'm glad I did
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it inspried me to get a bigger list than that
it inspried me to get a bigger list than that
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hummm...i found it at school while in computer lab (IBCA)...i was finished with my work and my friend next to me was too...he started playing minetest and talling me how he was working with c++ to build some of the features...i gave it a try and it reminded me of a game i played as a little kid (roblox) and well...ive been stuck to it since then
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Googled "Free Minecraft alternatives".
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I didn't know about minecraft (is it free or not? - I didn't even know) and searched for it on Archlinux in the AUR
One of the first hits was minetest.
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I searched "Minecraft Clones" on Google, and I went to Saxony's Minetest.com and I went onto a link and it went to the real site c55.me/minetest (which is now Minetest.net) and downloaded Minetest.
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Started searching for open-source/free alternatives to MineCraft that included a way to host my own server so my kids could play without my worrying about needing to patrol\nanny-sit while they did it. 3.1 worked well, but I found myself drifting towards the unstable releases which led to loading Linux on their machines to allow playing (the Win versions were crashing on their XP machines), then from there I started looking at how various mods were done and now I check in daily to look at what's new.
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I googled ''Free Minecraft clones''.
I used 3.0.1 back then... Haha! Good times.
I used 3.0.1 back then... Haha! Good times.
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I'm not much of a gamer, but at some point there was just too much talk about Minecraft, so I thought I'd check it out.
I looked at a couple of videos, but wanted to try it for myself.
Somewhere in my mail I had a free trial, but I discovered it had expired.
I tried the Minecraft Classic (which is free) but found it extremely boring.
But more importantly, I couldn't get it to work on my home PC (Fedora Linux); and I wasn't going to pay $27 for a game that:
a) I didn't know (at the time) if I was going to enjoy
and b) Might not even work on my machine.
Next logical step was Googling for clones; check which would work on linux, and watch a few videos before bothering to download/install.
Back then there was only one decent, portable, and playable "clone". Minetest, of course.
I still don't play all that much.
Actually, I spend more time looking at the code changes, compiling, and in overall just checking the progress, than playing.
Yup. Geeky as charged.
I looked at a couple of videos, but wanted to try it for myself.
Somewhere in my mail I had a free trial, but I discovered it had expired.
I tried the Minecraft Classic (which is free) but found it extremely boring.
But more importantly, I couldn't get it to work on my home PC (Fedora Linux); and I wasn't going to pay $27 for a game that:
a) I didn't know (at the time) if I was going to enjoy
and b) Might not even work on my machine.
Next logical step was Googling for clones; check which would work on linux, and watch a few videos before bothering to download/install.
Back then there was only one decent, portable, and playable "clone". Minetest, of course.
I still don't play all that much.
Actually, I spend more time looking at the code changes, compiling, and in overall just checking the progress, than playing.
Yup. Geeky as charged.
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Damn, I can't even remember...
But maybe on a french Ubuntu wiki/forum or just Google.
But maybe on a french Ubuntu wiki/forum or just Google.
Not here for a while due to some troubles between my graphic card and Minetest.
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