{"id":36,"date":"2007-09-23T09:40:56","date_gmt":"2007-09-23T09:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=36"},"modified":"2007-09-23T09:40:56","modified_gmt":"2007-09-23T09:40:56","slug":"build-your-own-virtual-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/build-your-own-virtual-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Build your own virtual world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A free tool that allows anyone to create a virtual world has been launched by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metaplace.com\/\">Metaplace<\/a>.  Users can build 3D online worlds for PCs or even a mobile phone without any knowledge of complex computer languages.\u00a0 Users make the virtual spaces from simple building blocks.\u00a0 The results, which could be used for gaming, socialising or e-commerce, can be embedded in a webpage, facebook profile or blog.<\/p>\n<p>The web-based program is the brainchild of Raph Koster, one of the developers of massively multiplayer online games such as Ultima Online. &#8220;We are out to democratise virtual worlds and bring them to absolutely anybody,&#8221; said Mr Koster, founder of Areae, the company behind Metaplace. &#8220;You can come to the site, press a button and have a functioning virtual world that supports multiple users in about 30 seconds.&#8221; Cool!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A free tool that allows anyone to create a virtual world has been launched by Metaplace. Users can build 3D online worlds for PCs or even a mobile phone without any knowledge of complex computer languages.\u00a0 Users make the virtual spaces from simple building blocks.\u00a0 The results, which could be used for gaming, socialising or &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/build-your-own-virtual-world\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Build your own virtual world<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ict"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-A","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}