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This is pretty rad.

This is sexy.

Nice.

I found someone drawing in realtime, had a nice chat with him :D

Surprisingly addictive. :coffee:

Very fun-I'll be coming back for sure.

Whoa, either I can't connect to it properly at college or some big bug happened.

this thing is pretty addictive

Gah it's starting to lag now :[

Starting to lag? you're saying everyone didn't always had to spend tens of minutes typing per sentance :whome:

I'd like a forum, that was just this. You had to draw your own topic boxes and stuff, that would be totally out there!

Now, there's a grand idea!  :gentleman:

You know what would be awesome? A text dump function that would give you the entire 'canvas'.

hell ya, or a "fast explore" mode where you can explore but can't edit or see edits in real time

We're building up quite the world, especially in the north

imagine this but as a level editor

Yeah, as much as I love this site I really wish they would cut out some of the lag. Particularly when you're in the outskirts.

Lag isn't preventing the ongoing war between the Borgs, Cones and the Space Brothel/Hotel forces.

and SPACE OPRAH

our plot in this world is oscar worthy

Somebody vandalized my Uboa :(

Other than that this is wicked fun. It's like a roguelike kinda.

lol that space war made me feel like a little kid again

"i'm shooting lasers at you"
"well I have a shield so HA"
"well no you can't do that cause my lasers pierce shields"
"not if it's a mirror shield"
"ya huh"
"nuh uh"
"ya huh"
"nu uh I'm telling mommy"
"well I'm telling mommy"
"MOMMY! HIS LASER SHIELDS CANT BE REFLECTIVE!"

The best part is the mother's confused look as she tries to make sense of her son's gibberish.

The black hole shows no mercy.

someone needs to count how many starbucks are in the world

The end of the world: A Starbucks next to a Starbucks.

Cool idea. It lagged a bit.
Are there any statistics about users, characters and area?

i really want to turn this into some community adventure game map editor

All you'll get are 500 dick levels.

I mean more like, not completely public. Get like 10 friends to work on the whole world who have an interest in making an interesting game world. You could make a huge, interesting world pretty quickly like that if you all collaborated in real time on it.

What kind of adventure game? Are we talking the LucasArts, 2D isometric, Maniac Mansion kind of stuff?

does it matter? LTTP or final fantasy style was what I was thinking but could work for
anything really

This thing is so cool.

The Internet is a magical place!

Sort of like Knytt Stories? I really wish that had taken off more.

Link to the Past? That would probably work...So, you need some sort of "hub" or "backbone", and there are a bunch of rooms leading off it. Each room is kind of an "instance". Someone goes into a room and if it's unclaimed they can claim it. Each person can only have one (or two, or three) rooms claimed at once, say. They can move around and place blocks and puzzle elements, and they can bestow privileges on other people to let them move around blocks and puzzle elements. Then you can "register" a room, which blocks all modifications. Once you've registered it, you can "verify" that it works with certain tasks; moving from the W exit to the E exit, or letting the player acquire an item. So, a room that allows two-way travel between at least two exits is eligible to be used as part of the "backbone".

Am I close? ;D

There was something similar that was attempted called The Knytt Experiment (http://tigsource.com/articles/2007/10/30/knytt-experiment). There was very little gameplay involved other than exploring the user-created levels, but I found it to be pretty cool nonetheless.

Ya sorta, I don't even mean for user generated content, as this would work great as an in house private level editor. It'd be a lot of work to get it good for user generated content, but it'd be really fun to design your game's world in real time with other devs or friends.

A collaborative, network-enabled level design editor, huh? Sounds good to me! :handthumbsupL: :)

I think a good way to do that would be to have the level editor be very similar to actual play. Just with a couple extra functions, like teleporting your character around, placing and destroying objects...So, in other words: "The editor is the game." (I feel like I've heard that before, but honestly I don't know where...)

Maybe you could have a puzzle game that was also collaboratively played. Like, The Lost Vikings, only instead of switching between the characters, each one was controlled by a different player. So the level editor could be collaborative too. ;)

:crazy: I GOT LOST ON STATIC :crazy:
hey this is neat!

I think Langdell was written more than penis...

But not more than starbucks or some other variation.

I've been very interested in doing a prototype like this for quite some time, I've been held back by my lack of knowledge of how to make the Flash Client play nice with the sever and other clients. But I do love the idea of collaborative level editing.