Minetest
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Minetest is a free and open-source voxel game creation system. It is written primarily in C++ and makes use of the Irrlicht Engine. Minetest provides a Lua API allowing users to write their own games and mods. It is cross-platform, being available for Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, some BSD descendants, some GNU variants and Android.[7]
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Original author(s) | Perttu Ahola |
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Developer(s) | Minetest team |
Initial release | 0.0.1 / November 2, 2010; 13 years ago (2010-11-02) |
Stable release | |
Repository | github |
Written in | C++, Lua |
Engine | Irrlicht (Irrlicht-MT fork) |
Platform | Microsoft Windows, MacOS, Linux, FreeBSD, Android |
Type | Sandbox, survival |
License | 2013: LGPL-2.1-or-later[2][3] 2010: GPL-2.0-or-later[4][5] Original: Proprietary[6] |
Website | https://www.minetest.net/ |
An in-game browser lets users download games and modifications from the ContentDB website.[8] The five most popular games by downloads are VoxeLibre, Minetest Game, NodeCore, Tutorial and Subway Miner.[9]
Over a decade of active development Minetest has garnered critical acclaim and gained in popularity; since November 2013 Minetest has been downloaded over 1.4 million times from GitHub[citation needed] , and the Android version of Minetest has over a million downloads on the Google Play store[10] .