Minetest: An open source voxel game engine

Re:Minetest: An open source voxel game engine by newswasboring on Monday May 01, 2023 @06:23AM (#35770939)

It's completely possible that I'm having a dumb moment, but where can I learn to make games with this engine? I really cannot find a tutorial.

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Re:Minetest: An open source voxel game engine by xigoi on Monday May 01, 2023 @06:30AM (#35770971)

You're right, the documentation is all over the place and pretty hard to find.

https://rubenwardy.com/minetest_modding_book/en/index.html

https://dev.minetest.net/Main_Page

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Re:Minetest: An open source voxel game engine by rubenwardy on Monday May 01, 2023 @07:02AM (#35771177)

Totally not biased, but that first link is a great place to start.

Note that the process for making games is the same as for making mods - games are a collection of mod(ule)s.

I'll make a note about the docs being hard to find, obviously room to improve here. This page is intended to be the starting page for those interested in modding/game making, it gives an overview and links to other resources: https://dev.minetest.net/Modding_Intro

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Re:Minetest: An open source voxel game engine by newswasboring on Monday May 01, 2023 @09:54AM (#35772799)

> Note that the process for making games is the same as for making mods - games are a collection of mod(ule)s.

I think this is what is confusing. If you call it a game engine, I expect it to make... Games. It's just weird is all.

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