FOSS gamedev and creative worlds

Hi! I want to know how active some Minetest players around here are. So I start a simple poll:

How many subgames did you play? Please only count subgames that:

• You played for at least 1 hour
• Are intended for actual gameplay (game/sandbox). Testing, developer or tutorial stuff is excluded

Of course, Minetest Game counts, too!

Hints:

• If you just installed Minetest and jumped straight into the world and never downloaded anything else, then your answer is probably “1” for playing Minetest Game.
• If you don't remember or know, count the number of icons in the icon bar in your Minetest main menu. Click on each of them, maybe this helps your memory. :-)
• If still unsure, pick your best estimate
• You can change your answer at any time.

Thanks for your time. :-)

Actually I only play just to test my own code

i guess just 1...
i started with the default game and tried various mods and stuff.
eventually i settled with Ethereal and it's compatible mods.
when i reached the point where i could play and build without being ashamed or unsure about the results, i moved to the Xanadu server.
since then i didn't play anything and anywhere else in minetest.

i plan to have a singleplayer world for my subgame, but it's far from playable :P

hmm
a quick dir command reveals this:

of these Isarnho, Apfelschorle and Gardens are games or rather mod collections of my own. Isarnho is the only creation that might develop into a real subgame some time in the future.
I left in the dates to show how old some of these are. (Isarnho is also from 2013 but constantly worked on) Some are there to use with certain maps such as for example made by the copy-to-local option. This is also the reason why there is a Vanessa's game and the later Dreambuilder game. I havn't played all with the 0.4.15 version yet so some may not work, indeed I havn't touched some of the games for a year or more.
The games I currently use locally on a regular basis and not just for testing features would be: minetest_game, Isarnho, Apfelschorle and Dreambuilder in about that order sortet by how often I use them.

burli wrote:Actually I only play just to test my own code

...same xD

I play/stream one subgame: my own. I call it Boldly Go, and it's very much in an alpha/testing phase right now. Once I get "through it" and promote it to beta, I plan on releasing it to all you lovely people to help me test it further, but more importantly, so you can all enjoy it! I'm pretty excited about it, tbh.

My list:
- Clonecraft
- Clonecraft Classic
- The Legend of Minetest
- Lord of the Test
- Minetest TNG
- SkyTest
- VoxBox
- Voxelgarden
- voxiworld
- Pixture
- Minetest Hades
- rpgtest
- Carbone / Carbone NG
- MineClone 2
- Hungry Games / Hungry Games Plus
- Outback
- RealTest
- Regnum
- Minetest Game
- (some others)

For more than one hour? Three.
Minetest Game - Pretty boring on its own. Mods help a little, but they tend to be poorly balanced and not synergize well. Worldgen is decent. I added the best mobs mod I could find, but it still isn't that great. The ambience mod was nice after I turned the sound likelihoods down.
Minetest Hades - Challenging, in a good way generally. I also added thirst and bewareofdark, which made it even harder. Sadly it got too grindy, plus the dim torches gave me a headache, so I had to stop playing.
Voxelgarden - My favorite subgame experience, even though there isn't much progression. I added thirst and ambience for obvious reasons.

I don't have patience for subgames which are unoriginal or have serious design issues, which is why the list is so short. Pixture is on my todo-list, as well as a few mods.

However, most of my time with minetest I spend using Minetest Game as a development base while I try to make a fun mod.

burli wrote:Actually I only play just to test my own code

me too ;)
#DevClub

Wuzzy wrote:My list:
- VoxBox

*suffocating* thank you ;)

D00Med wrote:

burli wrote:Actually I only play just to test my own code

...same xD

...same xD

azekill_DIABLO wrote:

burli wrote:Actually I only play just to test my own code

me too ;)
#DevClub

me too ;)
#DevClub

I consider the minimal because I played for a long time because it was the only one that had mobs. (I did not even know it was for development).

I play usually in these subgames:
1.VanessaE`s Dreambuilder creative server
2.VanessaE`s creative-building server
3.VanessaE`s Dreambuilder survival server
4.Framinetest
5.[RU] L.O.R.D
6.Fractal island
7.Xanadu
8.Just Test 2
9.Not so simple server
10.Mobs World (aka "DuCake`s Vivarium)
11.TPS Creative
12.Cash`s world

I also play some mineclone 2 and regnum, for testing