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Manic Digger – A multiplayer block-building voxel game, Minecraft clone

by mynameislegion on 10/9/16, 4:42 AM with 28 comments

  • by whatshisface on 10/9/16, 5:42 AM

    If you like this, check out minetest too. (minetest.net)

    Its got rendering improved over Mojang's Minecraft (with built-in shader support,) infinite world size in all directions (not just horizontally), and a very high-performance C++ implementation.

    It also has a very well-supported and well documented mod API, and an active community. You should check it out.

  • by emmelaich on 10/9/16, 6:05 AM

    Note from the sf.net git repo:

    Moved to https://github.com/manicdigger/manicdigger

    Also, the author's web site: http://croxxx.tk/

  • by exemd on 10/9/16, 9:47 AM

    Hi.

    Some info:

    - Client is written in Ć programming language and can be transcompiled to many languages. Yet it's still a C# project that runs in Visual Studio. See https://github.com/marioclone/Mario and http://smb.neocities.org/game.html for example how it works.

    - Game is currently being made into a commercial product by a big company. It looks beautiful. There is a whole team working on it, including many artists.

  • by bencollier49 on 10/9/16, 6:51 AM

    Out of interest, is Sourceforge any better under the new management?

  • by willvarfar on 10/9/16, 6:16 AM

    So this is written in c# and can be transcompiled to JavaScript... Is there any public servers that will host your world?

    My daughters play minetest and love it. However, they each have an old reconditioned laptop, and their shared world is hosted on one of them, so that laptop has to be on and running minetest even if only the other wants to play and create.

    A browser-based world would be so much easier.

  • by Razengan on 10/9/16, 6:16 AM

    Ah that name, [hopefully] an homage to one of the first platformers ever:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manic_Miner

  • by TazeTSchnitzel on 10/9/16, 1:11 PM

    Manic Digger can actually use the old Minecraft Classic protocol and hence act as a comparible Minecraft Classic clone, or at least it could in the past (maybe it was eventually removed). It's a secret feature, I think it was hidden behind some sort of flag.

  • by exemd on 10/9/16, 10:38 AM

  • by em3rgent0rdr on 10/9/16, 6:15 AM

    thanks for making public domain!