Garry's Mod proves Minetest should be on Steam?

[neuromancer56]

For the longest time, I thought Minetest was the greatest game of all time. That changed when I started playing Garry's Mod. What make's Garry's Mod better than all the rest is also what makes Minetest (and Minecraft) great. It isn't the game itself that is fun, it is the vastness of the Mods that pretty much allow you to do anything in the game. The thing is that Garry's Mod has many more mods, and the quality of these Mods far surpass what is in Minetest. There is a simple reason why this is true. Steam workshop. Steam would give Minetest a much bigger audience. Steam workshop makes it easy for many more people to contribute and use mods for your game. If Minetest were on Steam, it would have a huge leg up on Minecraft. So many more people would download it and start contributing Mods and ideas on a scale that Minetest will never see if it doesn't go on Steam. I believe that Minetest would grow to something far greater than Minecraft *if* it goes to Steam. There aren't a ton of free games on Steam, but those that are on there are extremely popular.

But I know that open source games are few and far between on Steam. I think Minetest would be a great exception to this rule simply because of it's easy (Lua) moddability like Garry's mod.

[Black Blade]

Well its up to the Dev/Publisher to add the game to Steam if you want it talk to them

[Zefar]

Minetest looks like a complete Copy+v of Minecraft. Minecraft already have a massive modding scene. So it growing larger than Minecraft is highly unlikely.

But go to the Developer of Minetest and tell them to put it on Steam.

[neuromancer56]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Zefar:

Minetest looks like a complete Copy+v of Minecraft. Minecraft already have a massive modding scene. So it growing larger than Minecraft is highly unlikely.

But go to the Developer of Minetest and tell them to put it on Steam.

It's true that Minetest is in a sense an Open Source clone of Minecraft. I own both. But all I ever play is Minetest. The reason is that because it is so much easier to install Mods Minetest than it is for Minecraft. It is also so much easier to create texture packs and write Mods for Minetest than it is for Minecraft. That is why I argue that Minetest would greatly benefit from Steam Workshop because it uses an easy to use modding language (lua) like Garry's Mod rather than Java for Minecraft. I have written 3 Mods for Minetest. It was too easy. I looked into writing Mods for Minecraft, but just was sooo much harder to get started with.

Garry's Mod became much more than the original game because of Steam Workshop. Minetest could/would do the same.

[Spawn of Totoro]

As was said, it is up to the game's developer. There is no point trying to convince us or Valve about it. The developer needs to contact Valve if they want their game on Steam.