Introducing Our New Name
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After more than a year of public and internal discussions, we're ready to announce our new name!
  • @[email protected]
    14•17 hours ago

    Im always sceptical of name changes, because you trade a somewhat widespread known project name in for …nothing.

    • macniel
      28•16 hours ago

      In this case you trade it in for not being confused for Minecraft anymore though

      • @[email protected]
        14•16 hours ago

        I suppose. But I think, minetest as a project was strengthend by its proximity to minecraft. The big reason you pick up luanti is that its like minecraft, but free and with more modding freedom. I dont think this is bad thing to be reflected in a name. But good luck to them, maybe they can pull the name change off without hurting their public recognition too much.

        • @[email protected]
          15•15 hours ago

          I always thought minetest is a cheap minecraft clone, mainly for testing or smth.

          So yeah, its a good name change

          • @[email protected]
            8•14 hours ago

            Yeah. I agree it’s rough to lose existing recognition, but I think the test in the name was hurting adoption quite a bit.

            When I tried mineTest last, I was thinking, “what the hell, this will amuse me for an afternoon.”

            I did not expect a feature complete game engine with a better more polished game than vanilla MineCraft.

  • @[email protected]
    7•17 hours ago

    Hah! Beat me to it by a couple of minutes!

    Looking forward to the next decade of Luanti and playing with my kids.

  • SavvyWolfEnglish
    2•14 hours ago

    Wait, didn’t they change their name recently or was that the mineclone Minecraft clone game?

    … Yeah, given how confusing it’s been, a name change is overdue. And will hopefully distract Microsoft’s lawyers for a bit.