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Today I dived back into Metaplace<\/a> and I have to say I am now very excited by its potential. I realized I had a stack of invites still so I twittered about it as one does.<\/p>\n

So why now? Well I am busy looking at all sorts of platforms and anything that lets people just get on and do things, whilst sharing with others works for me.<\/p>\n

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Some key points.<\/p>\n

1. My avatar can have green hair (Something PS3 home and Xbox Live still don’t do for some reason). i.e. flexible to what I personally want to do. It sounds minor but it really is important.<\/p>\n

2. The car there as an isometric 3d object that can be rotated through 4 angles has come from Google Warehouse.<\/p>\n

3. The image of epredator’s workplace is from my Keynote as the ACE conference. Its imported from my machine (as a jpg but its powerpoint\/keynote in world)\u00a0<\/p>\n

4. You cant see the alien creature I added from the metaplace store. It is a 3d alien, but I clicked the properties to add movement code to it, and selected it should avoid me as a player. So it ran away. Scripts and code…. tick.\u00a0<\/p>\n

5. I was able to create my own space, in this case a feeding edge room. (group space and branding now playing a part)<\/p>\n

So with imports, code to make things happen, all running in flash, backed up by a linked social network its letting people just get on and build. Always a design feature but its working really well.<\/p>\n