Minetest Game development

This page describes the values of Minetest Game. These may be changed when the majority of MTG devs agree.

Core Gameplay Values

• Exploration - interesting mapgen/biomes
• Creativity - enough nodes without contradicting semi-minimalism
• Immersion - adding feedback such as sounds, mobs, and interactivity to make the world feel alive

Criteria for inclusion

• Balance - Ensure balanced gameplay while still adding new and useful items/nodes/etc
• Semi-minimalism - No additions that are decided to be too much (e.g. adding homedecor in its entirety)
• Stability - Focus on stability and completeness (no half-finished stuff)
• Extendability - Improve/add API to allow mods to extend the base features (e.g. API for new crops for farming)

Basic Concepts

• Medieval - Minetest Game is generally agreed to be late-medieval
• Alien - Mese is an alien crystal / meteorite

Graphic Style

• All nodes should fit the voxel grid or a sub division. Note this is a general rule, there are cases when it's OK such as chests
• Entities should be voxel-ish
• Textures should be 16x16

Development

See Git and Git Guidelines

Note: To prevent problems with the development like before Minetest Game is maintained by only six people (sfan5, nore, ShadowNinja, paramat, sofar, rubenwardy).