About

Minetest-c55 is one of the first InfiniMiner/Minecraft(/whatever) inspired games (started October 2010), with a goal of taking the survival multiplayer gameplay to a slightly different direction.

Minetest-c55 game also serves to celeron55, the author of the game as a learning project. He is making it as a hobby, so progress isn't particularly fast. If you need a reminder of this project, the blog has an RSS feed.

If you like the game or would like to see more games from celeron55, you should consider donating.

The main design philosophy is to keep it technically simple, stable and portable. It will be kept lightweight enough to run on fairly old hardware. It runs playably on a laptop with Intel 945GM graphics.

It is released under the GPL, with the intention that that way it is a lot easier to use by Linux users and people can report and help fix bugs more effectively.

This game is under development, and as of now, the game does not really differ from Minecraft except for having a lot less features. Still, playing is quite fun already, especially for people who have not been able to experience Minecraft.

Features

• Survival mode with inventory and crafting. This mode is being currently developed.
• Creative mode with infinite blocks at your disposal. This is a by-product of making the actual game and not the actual focus of development.
• Multiplayer support for N players
  (My development server has never got more than 10, but I have heard that someone has hosted 100 players on an Atom notebook...)
• Awesome dynamic lighting (quite similar to Minecraft)
  (This is done with no shaders or such.)
• Almost infinite world (limited to +-31000 blocks in all directions at the moment)
  (Minecraft Alpha has a height restriction of 128 blocks)
• Infinite map generator
  (Does quite good maps already.)
• Runs natively on Windows, Linux and OS X
  (C++ and Irrlicht. No Java.)

Considerable shortcomings, as of now

Most of these will be worked on in the future.

• Quite limited range of craftable items (list of items)
• Mobs suck
• No sounds
• ...And probably many more. It's basically at the state at which Minecraft was in the early Infdev days.

*) the above text (slightly modified) is from http://c55.me/minetest/