nilch => ?

Pesky ball of protoplasmic evil.  Sit!

no sound yet, the ball is rigged and weighted, w/ hinge joints. 

Say, that's a pretty big dungeon you got there...:)

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.

Gamasutra article here.   They're working on a web plugin, and plan to make a game portal called "instantaction.com" (wasn't that a band in the 80s?) .   This ups the ante quite a bit, and gives a lot of momentum to GarageGames.   While Torque is the 3D platform to beat on Windows, it's inferior in many ways to Unity, IMHO.   But with a workable browser plugin,  XNA integration, and the Dillions in funding, the gap may be narrowing.