Remember months ago, when MMO-Gamer put up an interview I did with them? Well, part two of their epic article covering their Metaplace visit is up now. Very cool. 🙂

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I found it on the newsstand! It’s the January 2008 issue. We’re even on the cover (as a small “Make Your Own MMO” blurb in a circle in the lower left).

Pretty good article, I thought — almost two full pages. And in case you are wondering, that one-eyed dinosaur critter is called a sqronk. Expect to hear more about him in the future.

I realized that it has been a while since I posted anything about how it is going — so here’s a bit about recent happenings.

The big thing first — yes, more alpha testers are getting in this week. 🙂 So if you’re not in yet, well, time to start calculating the odds again. Remember, there were 10,000 people in line alongside you.

Naturally enough, we are paying close attention to participation on the forums — lots of great discussions there, and a great pool of potential folks to let in early. Of course, the gang there is near and dear to my heart because they have embraced the sqronk (you’ll just have to visit to find out what that means…!)

We’ve also been doing a weekly blog post with info — the latest one just went up. These are pretty detailed posts, too, sometimes with code samples. Among the topics covered:

• An architectural overview
• A discussion of our philosophy on scripting (relevant given recent discussions!)
• Plenty of info on our business model
• A guide to creating art for the platform (inlcuding some wallpaper downloads)
• An explanation of modules and stylesheets (these are the bits that let non-techie people create games and worlds easily)
• And just yesterday, a bit on the event system, which ties into the whole “how we make this platform agnostic” bit, since it covers commands and keymappings and all that jazz.

For example:

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