Areae
Encyclopedia
Areae is an American
computer
technology corporation
located in San Diego
, California
, that was established in July 2006 by Raph Koster
. Areae has been officially changed to Metaplace, Inc. to avoid confusion. Funded by Charles River Ventures and Crescendo Ventures, Areae develops the Metaplace
software platform that democratizes the development of virtual world
s.
In January 2010, the company pivoted towards using its virtual worlds platform to build social games on Facebook
. It released two successful games on facebook using its platform, Island Life and My Vineyard after which the company was acquired by Playdom
.
United States
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computer
Computer
A computer is a programmable machine designed to sequentially and automatically carry out a sequence of arithmetic or logical operations. The particular sequence of operations can be changed readily, allowing the computer to solve more than one kind of problem...
technology corporation
Corporation
A corporation is created under the laws of a state as a separate legal entity that has privileges and liabilities that are distinct from those of its members. There are many different forms of corporations, most of which are used to conduct business. Early corporations were established by charter...
located in San Diego
San Diego, California
San Diego is the eighth-largest city in the United States and second-largest city in California. The city is located on the coast of the Pacific Ocean in Southern California, immediately adjacent to the Mexican border. The birthplace of California, San Diego is known for its mild year-round...
, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
, that was established in July 2006 by Raph Koster
Raph Koster
Raphael "Raph" Koster is an American entrepreneur, game designer, and author of A Theory of Fun for Game Design. Koster is widely recognized for his work as the lead designer of Ultima Online and the creative director behind Star Wars Galaxies...
. Areae has been officially changed to Metaplace, Inc. to avoid confusion. Funded by Charles River Ventures and Crescendo Ventures, Areae develops the Metaplace
Metaplace
Metaplace was a software platform intended to democratize the development of virtual worlds. The platform is developed by Areae , the company established by Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies designer Raph Koster...
software platform that democratizes the development of virtual world
Virtual world
A virtual world is an online community that takes the form of a computer-based simulated environment through which users can interact with one another and use and create objects. The term has become largely synonymous with interactive 3D virtual environments, where the users take the form of...
s.
In January 2010, the company pivoted towards using its virtual worlds platform to build social games on Facebook
Facebook
Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as...
. It released two successful games on facebook using its platform, Island Life and My Vineyard after which the company was acquired by Playdom
Playdom
Playdom is an online social network game developer popular on Facebook and on MySpace; it is currently the largest social game developer on MySpace and one of the larger ones on Facebook. The company was founded in the San Francisco Bay Area by University of California, Berkeley graduates Ling Xiao...
.
Notable associates
- Amy Jo KimAmy Jo KimAmy Jo Kim is an American author and researcher on the subject of online communities. She is noted for her influential conceptual frameworks for online communities, in particular the Membership Lifecycle that was presented in her 2000 book, Community Building on the Web, a design handbook for...
, Advisor: Community Building on the Web (published by Peachpit Press) author - Christopher Allen, Advisor: Transport Layer SecurityTransport Layer SecurityTransport Layer Security and its predecessor, Secure Sockets Layer , are cryptographic protocols that provide communication security over the Internet...
co-creator - Cory DoctorowCory DoctorowCory Efram Doctorow is a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing. He is an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons organization, using some of their licences for his books...
, Advisor: Boing BoingBoing BoingBoing Boing is a publishing entity, first established as a magazine, later becoming a group blog.-History:...
co-editor and OpencolaOpencola (company)OpenCola was a Toronto-based software company founded in 1999 by Grad Conn, Cory Doctorow and John Henson to create "collaboration object lookup architecture" software, and sold in 2003. The software and specifications produced were all released as open source...
co-founder - F. Randall FarmerRandy FarmerF. Randall "Randy" Farmer has created and organized numerous online communities. He is probably most famous for his role creating one of the first graphical online MMOGs, Lucasfilm's graphical MUD Habitat, with Chip Morningstar...
, Advisor: co-creator of a wide range of virtual world "firsts" - Dr. Richard BartleRichard BartleRichard Allan Bartle is a British writer, professor and game researcher, best known for being the co-creator of MUD1 and the author of the seminal Designing Virtual Worlds. He is one of the pioneers of the massively multiplayer online game industry.-Life and career:Bartle received a Ph.D...
, Advisor: MUD1MUD1Multi-User Dungeon, or MUD is the first MUD and the oldest virtual world in existence. It was created in 1978 by Roy Trubshaw at Essex University on a DEC PDP-10 in the UK, using the MACRO-10 assembly language...
co-creator and Designing Virtual WorldsDesigning Virtual WorldsDesigning Virtual Worlds is a definitive work on the practice of virtual world development by Richard Bartle, the father of MUDs. It has been called "the bible of MMORPG design" and spoken of as "excellent", "seminal", "widely read", "the standard text on the subject", "the most comprehensive...
author - Thor Alexander, Producer: Massively Multiplayer Game Development (published by Charles River Media) series editor
External links
- Metaplace (official website)