Featuring new sky colors, a new "label and graphite" item, fence gates, upside-down stairs and slabs, a new explosion system, death messages, and more.
One of the things I love about #NodeCore is that, despite being conceptually in the #Infiniminer / #Minecraft genre, it has a very original and quirky take on it. This also reflects on a number of details down to the level of semantics —and that's where my love turns into hate when I want to translate it.
Sign text will now finally be shown on the sign. Over 60,000 glyphs are supported. A new pole sign can stand on the ground, hang from the ceiling or a wall.
There's also a spyglass item, and moon phases have been added.
What time is it? Oh is it time to watch Numberz die in new and creative ways while playing #Minetest w/ #VoxeLibre? Yep, I think it's about that time. Stream starts in about 25 minutes if you want to see me die in really obvious and funny ways. Last time I backed myself into a lava pit running away from mobs 😅
Turns out rendering #Arabic is hard. No, you can't just implement the #Unicode#Bidirectional Algorithm and call it a day. It turns out the Arabic letters/symbols/? have different forms depending on where they are in the word and probably there are other non-trivial features. Yeah, I guess I just postpone this.
So my 1000 IQ workaround for now is to just render all arabic characters as U+FFFD REPLACEMENT CHARACTER for now.
I'll be playing #MineTest with the #VoxeLibre game live in about 20 minutes. I'd be thrilled if you popped in and said hello! I promise I'm getting better at reading the chat :neocat_laugh_sweat:
The way Lua only allows you to use a local function AFTER its definition in the file, is absolutely horrible. It forces you to order functions by their local function dependency, making larger files dreadful to navigate through. :blobdislike:
Does anyone have any tips how to organize large Lua files?
I'll be playing some more #Minetest with the #VoxeLibre in about 10 minutes if anyone wants to check it out! Last time we built up our fortress, this time we set out to supply it! I'd be thrilled if you had a chance to stop in and check it out :ablobcatrainbow:
I love the charming feel of #FreeSoftwareGames. You can always tell how much of a labour of love these projects are.
(Usually) rustic graphics, lack of hand-holding, fast load times and sense of freedom really sets these games apart to commercial games.
The idea of developers coming together to create something purely fun, often with no practical use except to share and make others happy, really makes me smile.