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The irrepressible Raph Koster has taken the wraps off his company Areae(?)'s new online games development environment Metaplace. From the faq:  "You should be able to stage up a massively multiplayer world with basic chat and a map you can build on in less than five minutes. It's that easy. Inherit a stylesheet -- puzzle game, or shooter, or chat world -- and off you go... Metaplace will support everything from 2d overhead grids through first-person 3d. However, right now we only have clients that do 2d of various sorts, including grid view, 2d isometric, 2.5d heightfields, and so on. We expect to keep working on the 3d client support." Sounds interesting, especially the stuff about integrating modern
web widgets into game objects, but wake me up when the 3D engine is
ready...

Not to be confused with http://meatplace.com (also very appealing!)