ebenezer wrote:4. One general question, more for the developers: where is the game headed to? I can see stated in many places what minetest is NOT (e.g. minecraft). But what is it? Or what do you guys want it to be? BTW, you are doing an excellent work here.
BlockMen wrote:IMO the direction of the game is too vague
ebenezer wrote:4. One general question, more for the developers: where is the game headed to? I can see stated in many places what minetest is NOT (e.g. minecraft). But what is it? Or what do you guys want it to be? BTW, you are doing an excellent work here.
Wuzzy wrote:The answer to question 4) was given by celeron55: http://c55.me/blog/?p=1491&cpage=1
ebenezer wrote:Wuzzy wrote:The answer to question 4) was given by celeron55: http://c55.me/blog/?p=1491&cpage=1
Quite clear indeed.
The game engine is there, and works beautifully imho. The subgames (read "content") are missing. I think that a release preloaded with a few subgames will be extremely appreciated and make minetest way more popular, exactly because it would offer an experience radically different from minecraft.
Personally, I quite like "building stuff in a sandbox game", but I would love "building stuff in a sandbox game with a purpose". And each subgame should focus around (at least) one purpose.
I throw in a few ideas:
1. easter egg hunt: chests randomly scattered in the world, each one pointing to the next until you get the final one. Having to reach the clouds, drain a lake, drain a lava pool, dig deeeep. Beautiful both in multiplayer collaborative and competitive.
2. tower defense: you know how this works - wave of foes, build traps etc to stop them.
2b. pvp version of tower defense - each player creates and launches bots to kill the others
3. farming & gardening for the sake of it (there's a mod already out there, right?).
4. pvp capture the flag
I have the feeling that nobody likes the "survival game" so popular with minecraft, and I can see why. But I think that people NEED a purpose to enjoy a game, even if it is just keeping to hack and slash over and over.
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