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Introducing Our New Name

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212 points luafox | 3 comments | 13 Oct 24 22:22 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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beeflet ◴[13 Oct 24 22:41 UTC] No.41832369[source]▶
The new name isn't great (too many vowels in the same place, you couldn't spell it if you heard it) but at least it's original and doesn't sound like it's a knockoff test implementation of minecraft anymore.

Minetest is kind of a unique experiment in how modular a voxel game can be with mods. It's pretty cool. You just visit another server and it downloads and sets up all of the server's mods. You have dependencies and stuff so not every mod has to reinvent the wheel. Much better experience than minecraft modding.

Minetest should lean into this and make the core gamemode more different than minecraft. Change up the artstyle, and make the physics feel better.

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1. xinayder ◴[14 Oct 24 10:37 UTC] No.41836186[source]▶
> The new name isn't great (too many vowels in the same place, you couldn't spell it if you heard it)

That's only a problem for english. Finnish people (and I can say romance language speakers) would disagree.

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2. graemep ◴[14 Oct 24 10:51 UTC] No.41836284[source]▶
I am an English speaker and disagree too. The spelling is fairly natural to me (probably how I would spell it if I heard it) and, in any case, English spelling is not exactly known for being obvious.
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3. KMnO4 ◴[14 Oct 24 14:07 UTC] No.41837677[source]▶
The new name lacks context that the old one had. Imagine discussing it on a bad telephone connection:

“There’s this game similar to Minecraft; it’s called Minetest. You know like, mining and testing”

Vs

“There’s this game similar to Minecraft; it’s called Luanti — uhhh, l-u-a-n-t-i”

The new name isn’t hard, but it’s definitely not as easy.