The latest release of Minetest with version 5.9.0 is out now, bringing new features and work towards using SDL2 for this free and open source voxel game engine.
Main highlights of this release includes:
- Rendering performance improvements (paradust7, sfan5 & x2048).
- Added godrays shader (x2048).
- New multithreaded Lua mapgen API to improve performance of custom mapgens. (sfan5).
- Android: Punch with short tap (grorp).
- Work in the background on switching to SDL2 for windowing and input (but not enabled in this release).
While the SDL2 switch is not yet finished, it's going to be a real nice change for Minetest and all the games using it. Since this will give better support for windowing and input. So you'll get proper touch-screen, gamepads and much more like easy full-screen switching too.
Pictured - Minetest 5.9.0 with VoxeLibre (formerly MineClone2)
See more on the Minetest website.
Have you been playing with Minetest? What's your favourite game on it? There's some really interesting content you can add into it that you can view right in your web browser.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Beauty from simplicity.
But also danger. I am just about ready to lose another week to Minecraft/Minetest.
But also danger. I am just about ready to lose another week to Minecraft/Minetest.
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I generally don't play vanilla minecraft. but I play a lot of big modpacks. It's funny how the modpacks often don't actually use anything from base minecraft, minetest would probably make it easier for a lot of the mods to work better. Combine that with microsoft slowly but surely killing the java (read: the only really moddable) version, and it feels like Minetest is the natural place that modded minecraft development should go. It almost certainly won't somehow. But if I could play AllTheMods 10 in minetest I absolutely would never look back.
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QuoteHave you been playing with Minetest? What's your favourite game on it?A simple-but-fun little game-jam maze-chase title called Jail Escape - it's surprisingly addictive!
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Quoting: KlaasI don't really know how else to describe it!Quoting: PenglingmazeNo…
It does fulfill the traditional requirements to qualify for the maze-chase genre (i.e., your Heiankyo Alien, Pac-Man, and Bomberman types of games) - the environment is a procedurally-generated maze, the enemies are more powerful than the player, and you can find items that grant you a temporary advantage.Anyway, it's good - give it a try if you're so inclined.
Last edited by Pengling on 12 August 2024 at 6:32 pm UTC
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Quoting: PenglingI don't really know how else to describe it!That's not what I meant. It was an expression of shock of recommending a maze game. No one expects that.
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RandomizedKirbyTree47 Aug 12
Quoting: KlaasThat's not what I meant. It was an expression of shock of recommending a maze game. No one expects that.Oh! Hahaha! That's the norm with me, honestly -
Last edited by Pengling on 12 August 2024 at 7:27 pm UTC
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