Gamemaking

Wherein I talk about games I am making

IsoTileMaker

 Posted by (Visited 5058 times)  Gamemaking  Tagged with: ,
Apr 072008
 

isoicon.PNGI just realized I never posted about this over here, only on the main Metaplace site. A while back I did a little tool for Metaplace users to help them make isometric walls. Nothing too fancy, and there’s higher-end tools out there for this sort of purpose, but this does do some nice stuff like help you make sloping walls, do whole batches of textures and generate hundreds of walls quickly, etc.

So here it is — free, and no guarantees. 😉

If you want to check out some of the stuff that users have made with it, there’s a  little gallery thread over on the MP website. And the latest version is generally linked here.

Metachat is on Facebook now too

 Posted by (Visited 10039 times)  Gamemaking  Tagged with: , , ,
Mar 272008
 

You can get it here.

This actually connects to the same chat world as the one on MySpace, and the one on our forums. So it’s all one big happy cross-SNS virtual worldlet in Flash.

We also got a bunch of forums interested in trying to integrate a Metaplace world on their forums… it’ll be one based on Metachat to start with, though it can of course change later. It’ll be their own world, though.

Last time I mentioned this little app on here, people challenged the question of whether it was actually a world or not. Well, it supports hundreds to thousands, there’s physics, a sense of place and space, you can kick a soccer ball, interact in real time… the background could scroll, and you could have avatars instead of profile pics. So… close enough, to my mind. 🙂

BTW, we’re going to start spotlighting community members and their worlds. The first spotlight is up now — Tachevert (of WorldIV) and his world “Danser,” which is one of my favorite MP projects so far.

Want a world on your forum?

 Posted by (Visited 9391 times)  Gamemaking  Tagged with:
Mar 172008
 

I know, two Metaplace posts in a row…

Anyway, we are Looking for Community Beta Partners, people who have forums and want to try out adding a Metaplace world to them. This is just an early trial, so we’ll only pick a few to start. So if you’re interested, drop us a line at the link.

If you’re interested, please send me an email at [email protected].  Please include the following information:

  • Name, url and brief description of the community
  • Estimated number of unique monthly visitors/members
  • Type and version of forum software that you’re running
  • Ability / willingness to do some simple php integration

Now it’s MyMetaChat

 Posted by (Visited 4465 times)  Gamemaking
Mar 172008
 

If you tried out Metachat on MySpace, you may notice that now it embeds a personal world — as in your own chat room — on your profile. If people stop by, you’ll see them as past visitors, they can leave messages in the chat history, and of course, if you both happen to be there at the same time, you can chat live… and of course, it links to the main Metachat world as well.

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