I just want to say... I love reading these posts.  So thanks a lot.  It really keeps me going.

As I'm sure most everyone would say as well: You're welcome.

Thank you for doing such an awesome job.

Regardless of whether or not MC is stealing Mythruna's ideas, I am always going to prefer the smaller, more innovative projects like Paul's fantastic brainchild.

I don't mean to provoke, but why?  Do you actually have a reason, or do you just want to support the "underdogs"?

Well said.  I didn't see anything about the source, so because I could download the current build I just assumed it was open source (I've been in the Linux community too long...).

I hope you don't drop the block part of the game.  It's got a very nice appeal to it.  I like the idea of a flexible item/crafting tree, and I hope you succeed in that too.

I will probably still play MineCraft (In fact that's the way I'd prefer it to be, two games, not one beating out the other) because I love programming/inventing with Redstone and Pistons, but I like the sound of ropes, hinges, and pulleys.  Thank you for that nice summation on the differences in purpose and in play-experiences, I hope that I can get back on later and try out Mythruna sometime tomorrow (I've got last-second programming homework to finish right now, sorry).

So forgive me for possibly (and unintentionally, I assure you) being impudent, but I am actually a quite avid MineCraft player (I enjoy piston/redstone circuitry and logic) and I was browing the internet looking for a good Java graphics engine when I stumbled upon the jMonkeyEngine, and thusly found Mythruna.

I am always open to new games (especially free or open source ones.  My laptop runs Linux, so I take what I can get...) and so I am currently downloading the linux distrubutuion of Mythruna... (Darn you Netflix for taking all my bandwidth!)

I guess what I'm trying to say is... or really what I'm trying to ask is this:
What are/is the major difference(s) between MineCraft and Mythruna?  A read something about Mythruna being more of an RPG... and obviously not everything's square here, I've seen the sloped roofs and stuff... but are they really all that similar anyways?  They look the same, but so do Go Fish and Casino Poker (to a certain degree).

If you could help me out with this, I think both are respectable games (well I haven't played Mythruna yet--Darn that bandwidth--but I'm sure it'll be good).  I'd just like to get my mind around the purposes and differences of each.