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Island Life

January 20, 2010 – 4:21 pm

Taymar has a very nice post up about Island Life, a new game on Facebook, developed by the great folks at Metaplace (and our very own Tachevert too!). Congratulations on a successful launch!

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Metaplace Virtual Worlds and Remote Embedding

July 1, 2009 – 12:24 am

As posted on Raph’s blog today, Metaplace has officially released support for remote embedding of worlds. Embedding a Metaplace world on any web site (including a blog) is now nearly as simple as embedding a Youtube video. With some assistance from a beta tester’s WordPress plugin, I’ve festooned the “Pages” section of WorldIV [...]

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Surprisingly, Making Games is Hard Work

March 10, 2009 – 12:56 pm

Ever wonder what it’s like to develop videogame content? Here’s a case study about developing a couple of features from “empty page” to “live.”
About the Second Metaplace Game Jam
Metaplace held a second Game Jam several weeks ago. As far as I can see (which is to say, as far as Wikipedia says, this [...]

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Metaplace Game Jam

February 12, 2009 – 3:04 pm

Over at Metaplace, we’re doing a Game Jam for the afternoon. Follow our progress live on Twitter.
EDIT: Tachevert, 2/13
Phew, they made a couple of screenshots public, so I can link ‘em too! Here’s some of my handiwork.

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Curious about Metaplace?

January 28, 2009 – 5:26 pm

As Tweeted on the official Metaplace Twitter feed, there is a limited-use beta key available. Go to www.metaplace.com and enter the key MPWELCOME to join the beta program for this virtual world project helmed by industry veterans such as company president Raph Koster. This is a limited-time key, so once it runs out, [...]

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March of Virtual Worlds

September 10, 2008 – 9:01 am

I had no idea that the World of Virtual Worlds had such high population. The video below by Gary Hayes (via kfsone) presents a march of video snippets from more than 50 virtual worlds (supposedly, I didn’t count). Very interesting.
I do find it unfortunate that my favorite virtual world, Metaplace, employer of our [...]

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Moving to Metaplace

July 29, 2008 – 1:48 am

Hey Patrick,
How strong is your javascript, and do you know PHP?
I’m not sure you’d be qualified for our content developer position, but you may be qualified for our web developer position.

That’s not the most promising response to a job inquiry I’ve ever had. Let me set the scene: It’s winter in Atlanta, which [...]

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Metaplace Update and Comic-Con

July 24, 2008 – 12:52 am

Over at the Metaplace Developer Blog, there are some highlights from a recent visit of some alpha testers, and a few more pictures of the infamous Surfing Sunday. And while I’m shamelessly self-promoting (because damn, I’m in a lot of pictures), I’ll be hitting Comic-Con with the fellow Metaplacers on Friday. Find the [...]

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