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Introducing Our New Name | Minetest rebrands to Luanti (blog.minetest.net)

submitted 3 weeks ago by that_leaflet@lemmy.world to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

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[–] toothbrush@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Im always sceptical of name changes, because you trade a somewhat widespread known project name in for ....nothing.

[–] DmMacniel 32 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

In this case you trade it in for not being confused for Minecraft anymore though

[–] toothbrush@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I suppose. But I think, minetest as a project was strengthend by its proximity to minecraft. The big reason you pick up luanti is that its like minecraft, but free and with more modding freedom. I dont think this is bad thing to be reflected in a name. But good luck to them, maybe they can pull the name change off without hurting their public recognition too much.

[–] ReakDuck@lemmy.ml 20 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I always thought minetest is a cheap minecraft clone, mainly for testing or smth.

So yeah, its a good name change

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah. I agree it's rough to lose existing recognition, but I think the test in the name was hurting adoption quite a bit.

When I tried mineTest last, I was thinking, "what the hell, this will amuse me for an afternoon."

I did not expect a feature complete game engine with a better more polished game than vanilla MineCraft.

[–] ReakDuck@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

That was me after hearing MineClone and wanting to try it out. I was shocked how good it felt to play it (except for the soft lag and a bit clunky inventory)