Comments on: Metaplace Now Open For Your Metagaming Needs

By: Amp

Amp — Sat, 23 May 2009 01:07:26 +0000

wicked…thanks Raph!
That will help alot even if I can just look at the code and manipulate the variables and stuff to start off. Much appreciated.

By: Raph

Raph — Fri, 22 May 2009 04:13:30 +0000

Amp, I’ll see if I can get the car movement from Raphshooter and the boat movement from HighSeas on the market, how’s that?

By: Amp

Amp — Fri, 22 May 2009 01:40:06 +0000

Yes Epic I’m planning on creating the next WoW with metaplace.

Tard.

Why the hell do we care that you played WoW to level 12. You’re here. You are a catass one way or another.

The game/game maker is neat. I wish I knew wtf I was doing.
I have no intentions of unleashing my horrible programming skillz on you or anyone else. I like the building aspect of it.

By: EpicSquirt

EpicSquirt — Thu, 21 May 2009 15:56:19 +0000

@Georgia
Enjoy yourself, I’ll continue suffering (losing braincells) from reading all the people who want to develop the next WoW with just LUA in the meanwhile. I’m not saying you want to do it, but public APIs in games bring too many amateur programmers to the surface and are often an excuse for not providing polished built-in functionality (“Our UI sucks? So what, the users have LUA!”).

I don’t need Metaplace or SL to do my own content and to distribute it, I can write my own game and put it on some digital distribution channels today instead of limiting myself to one platform – all the tools are out there for free/cheap. For me there are better games to play and better places to socialize (hello real world).

I didn’t play WoW for more than 12 levels and I’ve never played EQ btw.

By: Flimgoblin

Flimgoblin — Thu, 21 May 2009 13:15:49 +0000

I really like the idea of Metaplace.

Unfortunately I’ve not yet managed to get enough free time together in the one place to have a good shot at building a world yet.

One of these days hopefully….

By: Amp

Amp — Wed, 20 May 2009 00:36:12 +0000

I sat there this weekend glued to the damn game. And I can’t even script…yet. (though it motivated me to start reading thier wiki tutorials)
It’s pretty wild, especially if you have a collection of skills including photoshop, or 3d modeling, but for the people that enjoy world building with no art skills, just import other peoples models, which I did as I tried to figure out the toolset.
I’m curious how smooth it will run though, I was trying to get a car game going. Built the world, but couldn’t find any behaviours that fit, and when I tried to do it myself, the car kept dissapearing.
My lack of scripting ability did stop me dead in my tracks.
I think it needs more non-programmer features. Ready made scripts to get basic games going. It has some, just not enough for the casual yet. Cool game, or toolset, or whatever you call it.

By: Georgia

Georgia — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:21:52 +0000

EpicSquirt :
People playing SL or Metacafe are just idiots (yes, that many idiots out there in the world).

Seems like a pretty uneducated statement to me. Perhaps you should log in and check it out instead of blindly lashing out Metaplace has a brilliant back-end that supports some pretty good scripting. I was capable of writing some nifty little games in very little time. The scripting is LUA-based, so it’s easy to learn so long as you follow their API wiki, which is very well documented if you ask me.

This isn’t WOW or EQ. That’s not what it was meant to be. You should probably stop judging it as such, since it will get you nowhere fast.

By: JuJutsu

JuJutsu — Sun, 17 May 2009 04:21:45 +0000

“People playing SL or Metacafe are just idiots (yes, that many idiots out there in the world).”

:rolleyes:

By: geldonyetich

geldonyetich — Sun, 17 May 2009 00:50:51 +0000

I sure didn’t.

I’m not nearly enough of the extroverted social butterfly to find those activities appealing.

For me, messing around in virtual Metaplace space threatens to pull me out of my shell, not provide an avenue to retreat further in.

That these so-called friends of mine might be mincing pedophiles or proud animal fornicators is second to the concern I’d probably not be socializing with anybody at all if left to my own devices.

By: EpicSquirt

EpicSquirt — Sat, 16 May 2009 22:46:25 +0000

@geldonyetich Generalize more. Did you ever open a cafe in a virtual world and did you protest against too high coffee prices? With your so called friends?