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Cataclysm-DDA
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Tutanota makes encryption easy
Tuta is an email service with a strong focus on security and privacy that lets you encrypt emails, contacts and calendar entries on all your devices.
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Geyser
A bridge/proxy allowing you to connect to Minecraft: Java Edition servers with Minecraft: Bedrock Edition.
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koreader
An ebook reader application supporting PDF, DjVu, EPUB, FB2 and many more formats, running on Cervantes, Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook and Android devices
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panel
Pterodactyl® is a free, open-source game server management panel built with PHP, React, and Go. Designed with security in mind, Pterodactyl runs all game servers in isolated Docker containers while exposing a beautiful and intuitive UI to end users.
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PolyMC
A custom launcher for Minecraft that allows you to easily manage multiple installations of Minecraft at once (Fork of MultiMC)
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PollyMC
Discontinued DRM-free Prism Launcher fork with support for custom auth servers. [GET https://api.github.com/repos/fn2006/PollyMC: 404 - Not Found // See: https://docs.github.com/rest/repos/repos#get-a-repository]
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Prosody IM
Discontinued IMPORTANT: due to a drive failure, as of 13-Mar-2021, the Mercurial repository had to be re-mirrored, which changed every commit SHA. The old SHAs and trees are backed up in the vault branches. Please migrate to the new branches as soon as you can. [GET https://api.github.com/repos/bjc/prosody: 404 - Not Found // See: https://docs.github.com/rest/repos/repos#get-a-repository]
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minetest_game
Minetest Game - A lightweight and well-maintained base for Luanti, intended for modding
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Legend of the Green Dragon
Discontinued Core functionality for Legend of the Green Dragon, a text-based RPG game. (by lotgd)
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- Cubyz: Voxel sandbox game written in Zig
- Minecraft removing obfuscation in Java Edition
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Python on the Edge: Fast, sandboxed, and powered by WebAssembly
Yes roblox could be interpreted in that way.
Minecraft in a similar vein too.
I was actually thinking of creating a roblox alternative or atleast proposing the idea of modifying luanti which is open source to have roblox esque graphics.
So it would be the open source browser which allows you to play various games in some sense.
If you want sandbox applications, there is libriscv created by legendary fwsgonzo which can run on any device or wasm I suppose
https://www.luanti.org/
https://github.com/libriscv/libriscv
- Irrlicht Engine – a cross-platform realtime 3D engine
- The issue of anti-cheat on Linux
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The Minecraft code no one has solved (2024) [video]
> game design is a rabbit hole
Game engine design is a rabbit hole :)
Game design is the ultimate lockbox - you're unlocking an entire imaginary world which has some platonic existance in your mind.
And since you mentioned Luanti, it deserves to be much better known as a credible open alternative to Minecraft. You could do a lot worse then designing/prototyping your game with Luanti as the game engine.
https://www.luanti.org/
- Luanti Turns 14
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The psychology behind why children are hooked on Minecraft
Yes, and it isn't for every player. Funny story time: I bring online sometime a Luanti [1] server to playtest the game I made in a multiplayer context. One time someone joined and after a few minutes visiting, they asked "So, what is the goal?". I wasn't expecting that. MC may be popular, but one doesn't join a Luanti game server by accident, and most of them are MC- or at least MMORPG-like.
Still, although there's no set goals like in other games, this style of game has to have "affordances" for goals. Even the building activity in MC is not "free", as monsters are there to get in the way of the players' projects.
I also think that the social aspect is crucial, in the sense that having fun building things doesn't last, because one eventually runs out of ideas. Showing to others what you have achieved is an important part of it. Does art exist without an audience ? [2]
I think it is interesting to note that the fact that MC's world is fully editable by players is what drove the choice for the voxel technology, which was the only one allowing it with a normal PC at the time.
[1] https://www.luanti.org/
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Approximating Mathematical Constants Using Minecraft
Luanti (formerly minetest) is open source, written in Lua, has an API with mediawiki docs, and has a vscode extension: https://github.com/minetest/minetest
Luanti wiki > Modding intro:
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PolyDev :: a better "Hello World" for polyglot devs
Lua is a popular tool scripting language - it's used in a variety of settings notably Roblox, the GNU Image Mainpulation Program ("GIMP"), and if I may just momentarily shill, in Minetest. I used to write and maintain various mods for Minetest, and it's even fair to say I did a lot of my learning during that time... there's a lot of learning that can happen on spare time when you're also having fun 😄
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luanti-org/luanti is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 or later which is an OSI approved license.
Minetest is marked as "self-hosted". This means that it can be used as a standalone application on its own.
The primary programming language of Minetest is C++.
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