[Hamara-devel] the minetest test

[shirish]

Hi all,
I was looking at minetest. While it runs pretty slowly on this machine, 
barely usable but could do stuff.

@vikas which version were your kids playing as :-

[$] apt-cache policy minetest
 

minetest:
   Installed: 0.4.12+repack-2
   Candidate: 0.4.12+repack-2
   Version table:
  *** 0.4.12+repack-2 0
           1 http://httpredir.debian.org//debian/ testing/main amd64 
Packages
           1 http://httpredir.debian.org//debian/ unstable/main amd64 
Packages
         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
      0.4.10+repack-1 0
         500 http://httpredir.debian.org//debian/ jessie/main amd64 Packages


So as can be seen there are two versions of minetest in Debian.
Looking at the changelog there seems to be lot of progress over a year.

See http://dev.minetest.net/Changelog

I also looked at its github page and was pleased to see the game is 
active and has something like 100 odd pull requests which means that 
there is healthy community around it.

I did take a look at both commit logs and was able to find quite a few 
people being able to commit to main which is healthy for the project as 
well.

Even the forum for modding is bursting with activity.

https://forum.minetest.net/viewforum.php?f=11

As far as the sleepy nature of gaming on my system is simply because 
there were and still not any voxel instructions in the cpu and the 
embedded intel card/gpu is too old. I got something like 10-12 fps with 
cent percent cpu and gpu utilization.

This is a known issue on the cpu front for a long time. On the GPU side, 
there are many improvements supposed to happen in near-term.

For e.g. see 
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/190660-nvidia-uses-its-new-maxwell-gpu-and-global-illumination-to-prove-the-lunar-landings-werent-faked

and http://voxels.blogspot.in/2014/04/gtx580m-vs-ati-270x-1920x1024.html

apparently Radeon's cards are best (in part due to them having more 
shaders perhaps).

http://voxels.blogspot.in/ does have lot of info. about voxels

Minetest is already in pi. See 
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=15543&p=190946

Looking at the huge variety of mods, content now and being planned once 
kids (or even adults) get into it, wouldn't be able to get any things 
done (TM) !

So, in essence am glad it doesn't run well on my system otherwise would 
be instantly addicted to this game.
-- 
Regards,
Shirish Agarwal,
Community Lead,
Hamaralinux.org