[...] Koster announced his new company, Areae, in December of last year in a brief post on his blog. Since then, he has given several interviews regarding the company, but has been (understandably) [...]

[...] Koster (of whom I have previously written) has announced what he’s working on: Areae… “Areas”, except you probably can’t trademark that, so instead he uses an unpronouncable and [...]

Areae ?…

Any progress on Areae?
……

[...] content in video games is the bandwagon to be climbing aboard these days. Take for example Raph Koster’s Areae, Three Rings’ Whirled and of course Spore. All of these things are banking on user [...]

[...] Links Ahoy: So it seems that everyone is going wild over Raph Koster’s announcement of his new venture, Areae. There’s a lot of perceptive commentary out there about what the venture will be, but the general consensus is that it’ll be some sort of portal / platform for multiple virtual worlds, with user content and all that Web 2.0 jazz. I applaud him for actually doing something to introduce something new into the stale Massively Multiplayer genre. Looking forward to where this goes. [...]

[...] jumphttp://www.raphkoster.com/2006/12/15/announcing-areae/別のサイトにジャンプしようとしています。宜しければ上記のリンクをクリックしてください [...]

One more way to pronounce it (and I think some linguist purists out there would insist on this or some other “right way” perhaps given the usual meaning of these transcripted vowels):

“ar-e-aah — like the word “yeah” only a bit shorter.

I’m starting the “Guess Areae game”: It’s going to combine beardy, worldy, gamey and usery (I get dibs on this term). Extending the Web 2.0 principles, “The client is the Browser”. Worlds are build on the platform layer. Games and user-impactful content populate the worlds.

I have high hopes for you and this venture, so don’t suck! This is going to make you or break you!

Just kidding

Let the guessing game begin.

And if there is a bright new idea Raph haven’t thought about already, he can include them!

Frank

[...] "Open Letter" is so quaint and 19th century, doncha think? You know what I mean, though, right? It’s a blog post with a track-back to Raph’s post about the announcement. Which is as close as you can politely get on the cyberplane to simply up’n hollering: [...]