Metapost
September 18th, 2007
Areae (Raph Koster’s new company) announced their product: Metaplace, an open-standards MMO platform.
Cuppycake, Areae’s Community Director who is no doubt overjoyed that there is finally a community to direct, has this to add from her blog:
And of course, the part you’re all waiting for. We’re making Raph’s new worldy MMO in our platform. Yes, we’re spending all of our time talking about the tech right now and how open ended it all is. But we are gamers too, and a good part of why we’re doing this is to make the cool games that we want to make. We’re still in the early stages on that, but you can expect to hear more about this game in the next few months.
So, there you go. Of course, F13 has immediately dubbed the venture “Meatplace“.
And what do you think ? Or is this something that you can’t properly discuss due to your position ?
Is it a good sign when the day of announcement about a web based client, your web page is down? Just sayin’ is all.
The details, of course, are what matters but there’s no doubt that somewhere in there is a hell of idea, fraught with potential issues. Then again, one would expect nothing less from Raph. I can see where the potential for being bigger than Second Life is present.
I vote that we make a Bloginati Metaworld with doorways connecting to each. Like a Virtual World Webring where you can read posts from MMO bloggers in a shared space, making real-time comments with the other readers.
1: I think it’s pretty cool in theory but the devil is in the details.
3: We could call it… a “message board”.
You could call it a message board, but then what about all the kids who see massive amounts of words and run away? If you had a little 3D guy to walk around in this “message board” you could make a lot of new fans. It seems to me that anything text based eventually becomes 3D in some way, it’s the future.
f13 long ago decided no one should spend their time playing any game when they could be ridiculing said game on f13.
I like the idea, I hope it turns out to actually be as cool as it says.
There have been a couple projects I’ve seen in the past that haven’t quite delivered the awesome experience they hyped.
It’ll be huge in Asia, maybe. They go for the psuedo-3d style overly cute FFT style gameplay, but nothing beyond UO has even come close to success trying that formula in the north american market. Raph better hope someone comes along and writes a killer app for this, or it’s going to be an also ran.
I don’t really see people clammoring for “virtual worlds” or even pac-man on their my space pages. If I can’t play the game in 5 minutes a day, at work, with my boss coming around the corner, it isn’t going to fly.
You have to admit that meatplace is easier to type.