Minetest, an open source infinite-world block sandbox game engine with support for survival and crafting. Also see https://github.com/minetest/minetest_game - minetest/minetest
Eh, I think the decent performance while still being moddable, is something that can be sold to people who don’t even know what open-source is.
And the same goes for the basically unlimited world height, which allows for generating much nicer mountains and caves than could be generated in Minecraft. It also allows for distributing ores much deeper down, so you can’t anymore just dig down to diamond level in a few minutes. You actually need to build stations in the caves, lay down tracks to get quickly in and out, and bring ladders for exploring.
I know that this is harder to sell than a few pretty corals and I certainly don’t disagree that Minetest is a good game engine, less so a good game, but I don’t see it as dire. If anyone is inspired to create an excellent Minecraft-like game, they have a great basis for that in Minetest. And it’s really easy to install these alternative games into Minetest. People might also see modded Minetest in videos or screenshots and ask how to get specifically that.
Eh, I think the decent performance while still being moddable, is something that can be sold to people who don’t even know what open-source is.
And the same goes for the basically unlimited world height, which allows for generating much nicer mountains and caves than could be generated in Minecraft. It also allows for distributing ores much deeper down, so you can’t anymore just dig down to diamond level in a few minutes. You actually need to build stations in the caves, lay down tracks to get quickly in and out, and bring ladders for exploring.
I know that this is harder to sell than a few pretty corals and I certainly don’t disagree that Minetest is a good game engine, less so a good game, but I don’t see it as dire. If anyone is inspired to create an excellent Minecraft-like game, they have a great basis for that in Minetest. And it’s really easy to install these alternative games into Minetest. People might also see modded Minetest in videos or screenshots and ask how to get specifically that.