Linux Gaming @lemmy.ml mr_MADAFAKA @lemmy.ml 7 mo. ago

MineClone 2 will switch to a new name, VoxeLibre

Based on the small overall amount of votes here, a similarly small amount of votes on Matrix, the large amount of people who voted on Discord and the large margin by which the name VoxeLibre won the voting on Discord, as well as the heated discussion that followed the survey on private dev chats... ...

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Don’t really roll off the tongue does it?
- It does for me. It's a portmanteau of voxel and libre wit the last l of the first word and first l of the 2nd word shared. If you don't pause at the caps and just roll straight through. It rolls just fine and is rather clever.
  
  I think Libre in general is an awkward sound for me
  
  Vox-libre
- It really doesn't, yeah. But the vocal minority decided.
  
  It was done by a poll on Discord, Matrix, and our issue tracker. I think over 120 votes were cast. It was a polling majority...
Why did they want a new name?
- Might be to reduce risk of legal action by Microsoft (not that they'd have a legal leg to stand on, but that doesn't seem to matter these days)
  
  You can copy my homework but don’t make it obvious… MineClone
  
  Submits a photocopy of someone's homework to the teacher
- Because MineClone2 is a dreadful name, and unfortunately, when ever anyone tries to differ anything slightly, a head can be taken clean off. The project doesn't want to be a full clone, but heavily inspired by, but with it's own direction. It needed to go.
yeah I wanted to try out minetest but the fact that every single mod that exists for it is in the aur pissed me off cause I dont want to parse through 50 mod names to find the binaries and base data

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