Goodbye

[BlockMen]

I'm leaving Minetest.

Today this will be my last post, so I feel like I need to explain a few things.

First: I had a good time with Minetest, much fun and leared a lot of stuff. So I wan't to say thanks,
especially to celeron55. Also for being part of the core developers team, which ment also a lot to me.

Ok, now to the not so fun part, why I'm leaving:
Minetest became more and more something I felt moves to wrong directions, one day it was an engine only and everything
had to be "generalized" and "flexible", the other day we were a "Minecraft like" game, and things went in from that direction,
even if it was done in an ugly way or very "hackish".

The fun and the "nearly" endless options this project gave me first, became more and more confusing and
my frustation was continous growing. Furthermore I think in the core dev team personal affectivities were very
often a point that blocked things, at least it felt often for me that way.

Another point of frustration is for me the "modding community", so a few mod developers around here.
This whole project and its mods are open source, yes, but some ppl behave just like assholes.
They took code of me without giving credit, while I spend sometimes a lot time to develop polished and/or new features.
Even more bitter it was when features I implemented first and published got not even noticed and those ppl that
copied it got the attention for it.
That behavior made me change my licenses to more and more restrictive ones, ending up in a modiefied z-lib license at the end.
But even this didn't stop some ppl and even though I still angry on some I won't tell names.

Summing up: Minetest, a hobby for me which got sometimes very time consuming, became something I felt more and more
frustrated about and took the fun for me. So after trying to solve this by taking pauses or to fork I decided now to stop this
and to leave Minetest.

I wish the best for this project, but it's not mine anymore.

Greetings, BlockMen

[cHyper]

all the best for the future.

[everamzah]

Thank you.

[prof-turbo]

This whole project and its mods are open source, yes, but some ppl behave just like assholes.
They took code of me without giving credit, while I spend sometimes a lot time to develop polished and/or new features.

I agree with you on that point and I find it unbearable, but... Peoples are peoples.
I also agree with most of the things you said here.
I hope you'll do great things in the future as you did great things for Minetest.
Bye :')

[maikerumine]

I am sorry to hear you are leaving. :-(. You got to do what you got to do. You are one of my favorite modders.

[Esteban]

It's sad to see such a great mod creator leave :(
They're already a few modders active in the forums, your absence will be felt...

I wish you good luck on whatever you plan to do in the future.

[kaadmy]

This is basically the way I feel, but I'll wait a while and see what happens.

[BBmine]

Bye, you made many great mods. Thank you!

[benrob0329]

I give you the 23 DM fireball salute!

Thank you, Blockmen. For making the impression that you did on this community.

[Minetest Sam]

Wait,don't leave you need to create and develop more mods
Your Creatures mod which is one of the best mods is going to be left undeveloped
But if you come back no one can or will stop you

Thank you for developing Minetest

[nrz]

May the force be with you

[srifqi]

Bye, BlockMen!
Hope your life gets better!
*sad internally*

[OldCoder]

My attention was directed to this thread just now.

Please feel free to IRC me in Freenode or Codernet (irc.oldcoder.org) or email me at:

oldcoder@yahoo.com

[RickMcFarley]

Goodbye :( Thanks for the everything!

[Dragonop]

Goodbye Blockmen, was nice having you around here. Best wishes and good luck in the future

[DatJohnDoe]

May the Force be with you, forever and Always... Thanks for the epic mods

[MineYoshi]

bye , i admit your mods are great and very cool, luck...

May the source, be with you!

And thx for your work in Minetest!

[Kpenguin]

:-(
Bye.
Thanks for your work.
The source be with you.

[EthanD57]

:-( ^ 9999999
I wish you would stay, or at least keep updating CME.

Anyway, best wishes.

[Don]

Sorry to see you go. I wish you the best in what ever you do.

[pandaro]

good luck!

[SaKeL]

it's sad that you are leaving, you gave a great contribution to the mods and the game so we will miss that a lot, but have fun with your further projects and whatever you are planning to do... maybe one day, minetest will see you again ;)

[jojoa1997]

I may barely post here anymore, but your mods were great and I enjoyed them.

[trev]

I just saw this now! I'm so sad. I hope that the community did inspire you to pursue other projects. Thank you for all that you have contributed. I continue to use many mods and features that you made possible.

Farewell!

Note: I see (judging by Last Visited date) that this post won't be read by BlockMen, but I wanted to say thanks anyway.

[TailsTheFoxDoes MT]

I'm leaving Minetest.

Today this will be my last post, so I feel like I need to explain a few things.

First: I had a good time with Minetest, much fun and leared a lot of stuff. So I wan't to say thanks,
especially to celeron55. Also for being part of the core developers team, which ment also a lot to me.

Ok, now to the not so fun part, why I'm leaving:
Minetest became more and more something I felt moves to wrong directions, one day it was an engine only and everything
had to be "generalized" and "flexible", the other day we were a "Minecraft like" game, and things went in from that direction,
even if it was done in an ugly way or very "hackish".

The fun and the "nearly" endless options this project gave me first, became more and more confusing and
my frustation was continous growing. Furthermore I think in the core dev team personal affectivities were very
often a point that blocked things, at least it felt often for me that way.

Another point of frustration is for me the "modding community", so a few mod developers around here.
This whole project and its mods are open source, yes, but some ppl behave just like assholes.
They took code of me without giving credit, while I spend sometimes a lot time to develop polished and/or new features.
Even more bitter it was when features I implemented first and published got not even noticed and those ppl that
copied it got the attention for it.
That behavior made me change my licenses to more and more restrictive ones, ending up in a modiefied z-lib license at the end.
But even this didn't stop some ppl and even though I still angry on some I won't tell names.

Summing up: Minetest, a hobby for me which got sometimes very time consuming, became something I felt more and more
frustrated about and took the fun for me. So after trying to solve this by taking pauses or to fork I decided now to stop this
and to leave Minetest.

I wish the best for this project, but it's not mine anymore.

Greetings, BlockMen

The first mobs mod i ever used was your "cme", hope everything goes well with you, may the source be with you.

[wilkgr76]

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They took code of me without giving credit, while I spend sometimes a lot time to develop polished and/or new features. Even more bitter it was when features I implemented first and published got not even noticed and those ppl that copied it got the attention for it. That behavior made me change my licenses to more and more restrictive ones, ending up in a modiefied z-lib license at the end. But even this didn't stop some ppl and even though I still angry on some I won't tell names.

Simple:

You will be missed, BlockMen

Who will be next?

[rubberduck]

What happens with his subgame(s), I like Wasteland and it needs someone to maintain it...

and such great mods
like
Torches
Pyramids

[benrob0329]

IMO the MT style torches from his mod should be merged with default.

[MineYoshi]

Yes i think that should be make!

[lol34]

That is bad that you are leaving. Maybe it is a game like minecraft but it will never be the same, because of the pistons and the mobs. Can someone tell me what mob is that purple ball in the deserts at night? Good luck!!!