[…] the large margin by which the name VoxeLibre won the voting on Discord […] The new name of this project will be VoxeLibre
I think VoxeLibre is a great name. MineClone needed to go as a name and I honestly don’t like Minetest either since it implies that the game is janky and half finished, which it isn’t but even if it was there is no sense cementing that longterm as the name of the game in people’s minds.
Anyways, great news in my opinion!
Yeah I also think VoxeLibre is a better name since it’s not just a Minecraft clone (anymore) but more of a own thing.
But Minetest is a tougher question imo, because many people think it is the whole game while it’s mostly just the engine for other games, e.g. VoxeLibre. So maybe a engine themed name would be better for Minetest?
I think a reasonable touchstone here is the open source rts engine called the Spring RTS Engine. https://springrts.com/
There have been lots of games (mostly but not limited to total annihilation-likes) built on the Spring Engine over the years, and I think the engine has a name well suited to an open source platform for building games on. It is short, easy to remember and crucially though the obvious motivation to build the Spring Engine was to make a spiritual successor to Total Annihilation in a 3D engine with arbitrary camera movement…. the name “Spring Engine” doesn’t artificially limit the suggested possibilities of the engine to just TA clones (see Zero-K or Spring 1944).
I would go with something really simple like Block Engine or Blockworlds Engine and just toss out the Minecraft association anyways, but that is my own two cents no one asked for lol.
I like that. How about leaning into the “sandbox” gameplay? “Sandbox engine”? Or " SandEngine"? Or “OpenSand”?
