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i got my thinking on name of this game, because i thought that if it goes beyond it's current stage it would need an appropriate name. like cube world or minecraft or blockplacer or whatever. i think, minetest is not the name you would normally play, but only only as an alternative, cope or clone, to minecraft. and minetest, as far as i know, is not a copy of minecraft, it just starts as one, because it's basically the same idea.
minetest has another way of developing, as i know and see it. i'm not the developer, but i read stuff he wrote and talked to him, so i made these conclusions.
i think we must help celeron to come up with an outstanding and amazing name, which would describe the game and maybe it's development course, if celeron would share his ideas.
and i would keep out of using word mine. because of minecraft

i came up with couple of variants:
Cave Explor(er/ing)
Survival
Survive It
Paradise Dig(ger/ging)
Paradise Bulid(er/ing)
Heaven Build(er/ing)
Paradise Arrangment (PA for short :D)
Heaven Arrangment
Pickaxe Master (2nd favourite^^)

enough just to start off, eh?

PS sorry for being so enthusiastic, maybe in wrong way, but i really want to help, to change this game better way, but i'm no programmer, so i'm doing my best trying to help, but not to annoy, ways i know and can.

Nice idea to propose another name to this project that is not a test anymore
More than just testing, this project give the taste to mine

so my proposal would be

MineTaste or Minetaste

quite nice, to my mind. let's wait for celeron to see it...

Yes nice ideas Mito

I prefer original "minetest" name.

xyz wrote:I prefer original "minetest" name.

sure that Minetest is famous and recognized with its current name .. changing may confuse .... most of the time a rename mean a fork (ex : StarOffice --> OpenOffice --> LibreOffice)

But may be , not for now, when a version 1 will be reached, a new name can be cool..
Or like a flavor ... a punchy name for stable version and minetest for dev version
(ex: Mozilla browser <--> Firefox)

Branding is not useless, It is like a flag to make a more recognize community.

May be it is too early for now , but the idea is nice.

Whatever, at the end, project leader will decide... Celeron55 up to your wish :)

redcrab wrote:

xyz wrote:I prefer original "minetest" name.

sure that Minetest is famous and recognized with its current name .. changing may confuse .... most of the time a rename mean a fork (ex : StarOffice --> OpenOffice --> LibreOffice)

But may be , not for now, when a version 1 will be reached, a new name can be cool..
Or like a flavor ... a punchy name for stable version and minetest for dev version
(ex: Mozilla browser <--> Firefox)

Branding is not useless, It is like a flag to make a more recognize community.

May be it is too early for now , but the idea is nice.

Whatever, at the end, project leader will decide... Celeron55 up to your wish :)

It seems that celeron55 already has said some times that he'll keep minetest as the engine name. Why not create your game (based on minetest_game, for example, or even from scratch) and name it differently if you wish?

xyz wrote:

redcrab wrote:

xyz wrote:I prefer original "minetest" name.

sure that Minetest is famous and recognized with its current name .. changing may confuse .... most of the time a rename mean a fork (ex : StarOffice --> OpenOffice --> LibreOffice)

But may be , not for now, when a version 1 will be reached, a new name can be cool..
Or like a flavor ... a punchy name for stable version and minetest for dev version
(ex: Mozilla browser <--> Firefox)

Branding is not useless, It is like a flag to make a more recognize community.

May be it is too early for now , but the idea is nice.

Whatever, at the end, project leader will decide... Celeron55 up to your wish :)

It seems that celeron55 already has said some times that he'll keep minetest as the engine name. Why not create your game (based on minetest_game, for example, or even from scratch) and name it differently if you wish?

Sure ... a logo with "Powered by Minetest" can be cool :D

Minetest is just fine, don't touch it.

I like the Name Minetest

xyz wrote:Why not create your game (based on minetest_game, for example, or even from scratch) and name it differently if you wish?

Mito551 wrote: PS sorry for being so enthusiastic, maybe in wrong way, but i really want to help, to change this game better way, but i'm no programmer, so i'm doing my best trying to help, but not to annoy, ways i know and can.

i'm glad you developer guys are fine with minetest, but i just think that you can't really go farther than this "test". xyz, you should know, that in our language, we have a saying: the ship's sail is ship's name, and if you name it victory, you win; if you name it test, it always stays as the test. a lot of bugs and not implemented features.

I had some ideas for names instead of minetest long ago. Here are some of the names:
1.Funcraft
2.Infinicraft
3.Imagicraft
4.Nodeworld or Nodeland
5.Nodecraft
6.Nodeminer
7.World of nodes
8.Alien Miner
9.Break That Node
10.Craftalien
11.C++ Craft
12.N.O.D.E

wow 12 names that is alot! The name i like out of the first list made by Mito551is Pickaxe Master.

Josh wrote:I had some ideas for names instead of minetest long ago. Here are some of the names:
1.Funcraft
2.Infinicraft
3.Imagicraft
4.Nodeworld or Nodeland
5.Nodecraft
6.Nodeminer
7.World of nodes
8.Alien Miner
9.Break That Node
10.Craftalien
11.C++ Craft
12.N.O.D.E

wow 12 names that is alot! The name i like out of the first list made by Mito551is Pickaxe Master.

All of them suck. :P

Mito551 wrote:Cave Explor(er/ing)

But seriously, I like Josh's ideas of Infinicraft or Nodecraft.

Thankyou XCalibur54 i thought adding the word node would be clever beacause nodes are the names of the blocks in minetest!

XCalibur54, LOL, thanks for sharing!