By Sean on February 19, 2009
While Metaplace is still running under a NDA, I’ve been given some freedom to talk a bit about the upcoming online game development/virtual world/social networking technology. If you aren’t aware of what Metaplace is, then let me clarify first. Metaplace is the brainchild of famed Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies developer, Raph Koster. It [...]
Posted in Virtual Worlds | Tagged Game Development, lua, metaplace, nda, preview, social network |
By Sean on December 4, 2008
A few places around the Internet have noted that the United States Army has decided to get a bit weirder as it gets ready to start up a new recruitment scheme inside of the infamous virtual world Second Life. Now, while this might seem fairly strange, given that the army has also developed a video [...]
Posted in Virtual Worlds | Tagged second life, us army |
By Sean on January 31, 2008
That’s right, today held the first live chat for Metaplace , and it certainly was an interesting event at that. The event itself was actually held using the alpha version of the Metaplace Client, embedded into the Metaplace website itself. While at first it just appeared to be a normal web chat, styled after an [...]
Posted in Virtual Worlds | Tagged dev chat, metaplace |
By Sean on October 13, 2007
Back in March when I attended the Game Developers Conference, I was able to attend a few sessions which featured a certain game developer of LegendMUD, Ultima Online, and Star Wars Galaxies fame, took part in. Now, I happen to actually like Raph Koster. I read his book and liked it, I played Galaxies and [...]
Posted in Virtual Worlds | Tagged areae, metaplace, mmo, raph koster, Social Networking |
