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 (DIR) Post #B7PsBVApIdEiwK1HaC by capitalthree@fedi.anarchy.moe
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       @stragu @lianna @PrismLauncher @Luanti This is a tricky one.  I am a fan of Luanti and the fact that it fosters an open source ecosystem of games, and one where people can jump around and try different games within the ecosystem without any risk downloads.  It basically makes a similar security tradeoff to what minecraft plugin servers make, where everything can be served dynamically and no clientside modding is needed, but with similar tradeoffs as far as what can be done.  Luanti is very valuable but it definitely doesn't represent the state of where we need open source moddable bloxel games to be if we want to go toe-to-toe with microsoft's monopoly.I will say that you should get your kids to try nodecore, if they haven't already.  It's the coolest and most unique game on Luanti in my opinion, and definitely one of the most contemplative.  Also depending on how you feel about them playing online (no idea the age range), you could host a private server for just them, or maybe any friends they invite.  It takes very little resources to run a Luanti server and I'd be happy to help.Edit: I dunno if this is of interest to your kids, but I do think luanti's limited approach to how modding is handled *does* make it much more beginner-friendly to make mods for.  Since all the game logic is centralized to the server, you don't have to worry about network latency or concurrency or consensus...  the engine abstracts all that.  It's a great sandbox for getting started with game development or modding, if the kids can stomach Lua.