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Minetest

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Minetest
Minetest Logo
The Minetest main menu with the Minetest Game mod selected
Original author(s)Perttu Ahola
Developer(s)Perttu Ahola, sfan5, ShadowNinja, Nathanaël Courant, Loic Blot, paramat, Auke Kok, rubenwardy, Krock/SmallJoker, Lars Hofhansl
Initial release0.0.1 / November 2, 2010; 15 years ago (2010-11-02)[1]
Stable release
5.1.0 / October 12, 2019; 6 years ago (2019-10-12)[2]
Repositorygithub.com/minetest/minetest
Written inC++
EngineIrrlicht[3]
PlatformLinux, FreeBSD, Microsoft Windows, MacOS, Android
LicenseGNU Lesser General Public License v2.1[4]
Websitehttps://www.minetest.net/

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Minetest is an open source sandbox game engine, originally developed by Perttu Ahola, and released in 2010.[1] Minetest includes an inbuilt example game "Minetest Game". This game is inspired by, and has a similar pixelated graphics style to, such games as Minecraft and Infiniminer, and is known for being a FOSS alternative for Minecraft[5], and has received recognition as such from PC Mag[6] Minetest is available for Linux, FreeBSD, Microsoft Windows, MacOS, and Android. Minetest has been used in educational environments [7][8][9] to teach subjects such as mathematics,[10] programming,[11] and earth sciences.[12]

Software development model

The main development priority for the Minetest project is to enable a platform for modding. Minetest developers maintain the engine, leaving the development of the mods to their individual maintainers. Community development of Minetest is done mostly through Mods and "Games".

Mods

Mods are written in Lua and may add many different elements to the game, including (but not limited to) items, mobs, weather, HUDs, and textures (current available texture packs range from 4x4px to 512x512px[13]).[14][15][16]

Games

Games (originally called "subgames") are collections of mods, along with other files, that can be loaded together by Minetest. Examples of such games are the inbuilt "Minetest Game", which focuses on building, and "Minetest Saturn", which is a space simulation.

A mountain at morning in Minetest Game version 5.1.0
File:Minetest Crafting Screen.jpg
The Minetest Game crafting screen, showing the crafting pattern of a stone pickaxe
Minetest Game with its former name, Minetest-c55
A Minetest texture pack

Gameplay

Player damage can be enabled or disabled, examples being damage from monsters and dangerous materials, or falling from a height. Minetest also includes a "creative mode", which provides infinite resources for the player to create with. When this mode is disabled, all resources must be manually collected by the player.[17]

Minetest Game

The default game, "Minetest Game", behaves similarly to Minecraft. There are a variety of blocks to choose from, including natural resources and ores, and artificial materials such as wooden planks or sticks.[14] The game also has items such as swords, pickaxes, and other tools.

Networking

The Minetest engine allows for singleplayer and multiplayer modes.[18] For multiplayer mode, players can play online on existing servers, or host their own. Minetest allows the user to run a LAN multiplayer server by ticking a box and specifying the port. The default port is 30000, and the default IP is that of the host device. Allowing access from outside the local network requires port forwarding. If the server is global, the user can choose whether they want their server announced at a public listing, or to keep it private and require that players request the server IP and port from the user.[14]

Content Distribution

3rd-party Minetest content (mods, games, etc.) is hosted and distributed via Git hosts such as GitHub[19], the Minetest Forum Mod section, the Minetest Content Database, and other file hosting services.

Applications

Education

Minetest was used as a co-design tool for teaching children who can not attend in person sessions.[9] Minetest was also used for teaching logic, creating, and debugging to primary and secondary students.[20] In 2017 in France, Minetest was used to teach calculus and trigonometry.[10] At Federal University of Santa Catarina in Brazil, Minetest was used to teach programming in a variant called MineScratch.[11] In 2018, for Laboratory Education and Apprenticeships (EDA) at the Paris Descartes University, Minetest was used to teach life and earth sciences to year 6 students who could not observe some phenomena in person but could experience them in the Minetest virtual world.[12]

A fork of Minetest, Kidscode, is a subscription-based education tool where students can explore pre-built worlds or learn different subjects with each other in planned sessions.[21]

The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) uses Minetest as a software environment for a collaborative game called "Craft The Web" which allows the players to learn how the web was made and what principles govern it.[7]

A community member of IBM's Qiskit created a Minetest game to introduce and demonstrate quantum computing.[8]

2019 Google Capture the Flag used Minetest and the Mesecons mod to demonstrate hardware circuits.[22]

History

The original release of Minetest was version 0.0.1 in 2010.[1] The most recent significant update to the game engine was version 5.0.0, which was released in March 2019. This update added an online content browser accessible from within the loader menu. With this menu feature added, users are now able to download and play many different games and mods built in the Minetest engine, without having to search the internet using a seperate browser application.[23] The most recent version is 5.1.0, released in October 2019.[2] The game remains under active development as of January 2020.[19]

Reception

In 2013, freewaregenius.com gave a positive review of Minetest, stating that "it has had a lot of time to be finessed and perfected, and it shows."[24] In 2015, Opensource.com listed Minetest at #1 in its "Best open source games of 2015"[25] In 2017 Opensource.com again gave a favourable review of Minetest, stating that "Minetest is perhaps the most complete alternative to Minecraft", and noted its expansibility, stating that it "features a very user-friendly API for creating mods in Lua."[26] In 2017, MakeUseOf.com listed Minetest as one of the "20 Best Open Source Games".[27] In 2019, Linux Format wrote positively of Minetest Game, stating: "This the [sic] most outstanding and playable clone of Minecraft, fully open source and free"[28] Also in 2019, PCMAG listed Minetest among "The best Sandbox Creation Games for Minecraft Fans".[29]

Since November 2013 Minetest has been downloaded over 1.3 million times from GitHub.[30] The Android version of Minetest has over 100 thousand downloads on the Google Play store,[31] and as many as 250,000 downloads on Aptoide[32]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "My InfiniMiner/Minecraft inspired game project". November 2, 2010. Retrieved November 14, 2019.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Minetest". opensuse.org. October 12, 2019. Retrieved November 14, 2019.
  3. ↑ "Minetest 0.4.11 Released As Open-Source Alternative To Minecraft". Phoronix. December 26, 2014. Retrieved October 11, 2019.
  4. ↑ "Games/Minetest - Debian Wiki". Retrieved October 12, 2019.
  5. ↑ comments, 12 Oct 2017 Jason BakerFeed 2977up 19. "10 open source alternatives to Minecraft". Opensource.com. Retrieved 2020-01-21.
  6. ↑ "The Best Sandbox Creation Games for Minecraft Fans". PCMAG. Retrieved 2020-01-21.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Craft the Web: re-enact the invention of the Web". European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). December 9, 2019. Retrieved December 17, 2019.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Qiskit Blocks". qiskit.org. Retrieved October 11, 2019.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Walsh, Greg; Donahue, Craig; Rhodes, Emily E. (2015). "KidCraft: Co-Designing within a Game Environment" (PDF). Retrieved October 12, 2019.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Boutet, Henri. (January 2017). "Mathématiques et "serious gaming": l'exemple de Minetest" [Mathematics and "serious gaming": the example of Minetest]. Mathématice. Num. 53 (in français). Retrieved October 12, 2019.
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 da, Rocha, Jhonata (2016-11-23). "MineScratch: integração minetest-scratch para apoiar o ensino de programação" [MineScratch: Minetest-Scratch Integration to Support Programming Teaching]. Repositório Institucional da UFSC (in português). Archived from the original on February 3, 2021. Retrieved March 24, 2019.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Pauty-Combemorel C. (February 7, 2018). "Utilisation d'un jeu vidéo dans le cadre de l'enseignement des SVT: le cas de Minetest. De 0 à 1 ou l'heure de l'informatique à l'école" [Using a video game as part of the teaching of Life and Earth Sciences: the case of Minetest. From 0 to 1 or computer time at school.] (in français).
  13. ↑ "Install and Play Minetest". system76.com. July 28, 2017. Retrieved November 14, 2019.
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 Bidwell, Johnny (January 20, 2017). "Minetest:Craft, play and mod". Linux Magazine: 62–65.
  15. ↑ "Tutorials - Minetest (Linux Magazine)". Retrieved October 11, 2019.
  16. ↑ "Minetest : comment rajouter des Mods et des textures ?" [MINETEST: HOW TO ADD MODS AND TEXTURES?]. Geek Junior (in français). February 1, 2018. Retrieved October 11, 2019.
  17. ↑ "Minetest, Free and Open Source Sandbox Game Inspired by Minecraft". Linux Game News. Retrieved October 11, 2019.
  18. ↑ Sanctis, Valerio De (October 12, 2016). ASP.NET Core and Angular 2. Packt Publishing Ltd. ISBN 9781786461339. Retrieved October 12, 2019. Search this book on
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named PREVIEW
  20. ↑ "Evaluation of existing resources (study/analysis)" (PDF). TACCLE 3 – Coding. October 24, 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 16, 2018. Retrieved March 24, 2019.
  21. ↑ "Kidscode | Learn the digital world for kids". Retrieved October 12, 2019.
  22. ↑ "Google CTF". withgoogle.com. Retrieved October 11, 2019.
  23. ↑ Dawe, Liam (March 6, 2019). "Minetest, the free and open source voxel game engine has a big new release out". gamingonlinux. Retrieved December 17, 2019.
  24. ↑ Kurdi, Samer (May 30, 2013). "Minetest is an EXCELLENT, totally free clone of Minecraft". freewaregenius.com. Retrieved October 12, 2019.
  25. ↑ Muilwijk, Robin (December 30, 2015). "Best open source games of 2015". Opensource.com. Retrieved February 16, 2019.
  26. ↑ Baker, Jason (October 12, 2017). "10 open source alternatives to Minecraft". Opensource.com. Retrieved October 12, 2019.
  27. ↑ Lee, Joel (August 14, 2017). "20 Best Open Source Video Games". Retrieved October 11, 2019.
  28. ↑ "Sandbox Survival: Minetest". Linux Magazine: 86. July 30, 2019.
  29. ↑ Cohen, Jason (August 28, 2019). ""The Best Sandbox Creation Games for Minecraft Fans"". Retrieved December 17, 2019.
  30. ↑ "Github Release Stats". somsubhra.com. Retrieved October 11, 2019.
  31. ↑ "Minetest is an extensive-world block sandbox game". appbrain.com. Retrieved November 14, 2019.
  32. ↑ "Minetest 5.0.0.23 Download APK for Android - Aptoide". web.archive.org. 2020-01-21. Archived from the original on January 21, 2020. Retrieved 2020-01-21.CS1 maint: Unfit url (link)


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