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Introducing Our New Name | Minetest rebrands to Luanti (blog.minetest.net)

submitted 1 month ago by that_leaflet to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

So yeah, its a good name change

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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] 2 points 1 month ago

That was me after hearing MineClone and wanting to try it out. I was shocked how good it felt to play it (except for the soft lag and a bit clunky inventory)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

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

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Yes. MineClone (the 2nd(?) most popular game for the MineTest/~~Lunatic~~ Luanti engine recently renamed.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Heh. Lunatic. Good alternative name!