Metaplace Stress Test

Want a sneak preview of one space-shooter games made with Metaplace? This one is entitled Uberspace, and you can see it in another stress test of the Metaplace platform to test scalability, bandwidth, and instancing within a multiplayer space.

Stop by their website at http://www.metaplace.com on Saturday, March 8 at 12:00pm (noon) PST to challenge other players in a space shooting game and help them out!

Metaplace Developer Chat

For those wanting to know how did the Metaplace Developer Chat went, you might want to read this two links:

http://smallr.net/metaplace-chat gives you some nice screenshots and talks about the event itself.

http://smallr.net/metaplace-transcript has a chat transcript.

More news about Metaplace... tomorrow

Metaplace [1] is basicly a platform to easily create a Virtual World. The aim is to make it easy for anyone to create a simple Virtual World (like, for instance, create just a virtual room and put it in your MySpace profile), but also an extensible framework that lets you make real complex stuff. Theoreticly - at least - it is flexible enough to make exactly the kind of VW you want, putting the limits just in your imagination. An alpha is running for a while for a few selected people that had to sign an NDA - so we don't really know much about it. In less than a week, 10,000 people applied to that alpha (including me), but only a selected few had access to it. Now, some questions are arising, including:

• When can we expect Metaplace to reach beta phase?
• How soon do Areae expect that a new round of Alpha testers will be let in?
• When will the NDA be lifted allowing the alpha testers to tell us all the good things they know?

These, and more, are going to be answered in a "Developer Chat" tomorrow at 5:00pm PST (9:00am GMT), in... a Metaplace :-) I'll try to be there [2], and you?

[1] - http://mindboosternoori.blogspot.com/search/label/Metaplace
[2] - http://www.metaplace.com/

"Social 3D Worlds" conference in Portugal

This post is just to let you know that there's a new event happening in Portugal, this time about Virtual Worlds. "Social 3D Worlds" is happening for the first time in Coimbra, Portugal already this next Saturday (26th of January), and I'll be there, speaking about "Virtual Worlds: Pass, Present and Future".

Check more about this event at http://social3dworlds.dei.uc.pt/. See you there!

Is this the future?

Is this the future?

Project Outback - p2p virtual world

Yoick, an Australian company, is working on Project Outback, a virtual world that, according to this article, is going to be a p2p virtual world. You can already subscribe for a beta account, which I did, and read their blog. Here is, for instance, a nice piece on their blog, where they criticize Second Life and gives some tips for those creating virtual worlds.