Metaplace

Metaplace will be closing January 1, 2010 after a fair attempt at producing a 2.5D platform.  They didn’t seem to put much effort into community building; a few tools were there, but no incentive to participate.  I created an account around the time its release hit SLU forums and tried my hand at building a garden “world.”  The look and feel didn’t particularly appeal to me.  The idea of selling assets for game coins didn’t either.  If I’m going to work as a virtual world hobbiest, it has to at least pay for itself with real currency.  Otherwise, these environments only serve as 3D Facebooks and aren’t really worth replacing melted video cards annually.  Below are a couple of pictures for the sake of recording:

Painting the Ground: wish we had this feature in Second Life

Three copies of the Acer each displaying one of the textures