Description
Kasten 🔗
Work in progress!
A simple sandbox game for Luanti.
This is a simple game for Luanti started from scratch. It is inspired by Minecraft Infdev and Alpha, but aims to have its own unique look and feel.
The name is a mix of the words "castle" and Estonian "kast" ("box").
Features 🔗
Offering:
- Creative mode
- Survival mode (WIP)
- 7 colored block variants
- 3 world types: Modern (v7/v5), Flat, Classic (singlenode)
- Modern terrain with biomes
- Textures drawn by yours truly
- Furniture blocks
- Creative block selection menu like Classicube/Classic MC
- (Hopefully) simple and understandable codebase
Planned at a later date: mobs, farming, etc.
Source code is available on the project's GitLab repository.
License 🔗
Game source code licensed under GNU General Public License, version 3 (GPLv3) or later.
Game assets (textures, art, etc.) licensed under Creative Commons CC BY-SA.
Sound effects created using Bfxr and Audacity.
Resources and Thanks 🔗
- Luanti (formerly Minetest) Modding Book
- Luanti Documentation (For Creators)
- Luanti API Documentation
- Complete Lua API reference on GitHub
Reading the source code of these projects has been of help in figuring out how to do certain things:
- Minetest Classic for figuring out how texturing and item/node registration works.
- Minetest Game for basically showing how most of what one would want to create is done.
- Cave Game
for figuring out how to do terrain generation in
singlenode. - KSurvive 2 for showing how to start making a game from scratch in Luanti.
Weird stuff.
Some weirdness and bugs are present which are all things considered expected of new games
-Trying to eat causes a game crash, -Also I have no clue what I can use my block for as I have no crafting recipe book or anything like it. The game uses a 1 by 3 crafting grid which is confusing to anyone used to other games which uses a 2 by 2 at the start or don't use the crafting grid at all. -When I break wood block so does the leaves break immediately and they don't drop anything, meaning that if I want sticks, food and sapplings I need to first break the leaves then the tree blocks despite the game having in-built leaf remover
The game looks interesting but it has a higher than normal barrier of entry due to itself not using the same design logic as most other games and some bugs. I might return to it and change my review from neutral depending on the changes.