Areae

The word 'areae' is also the Latin plural of 'area'.

Metaplace, Inc.
Type	Subsidiary
Industry	Video Games
Founded	San Diego (2006)
Headquarters	San Diego, California
Key people	Raph Koster, John Donham
Products	Metaplace
Parent	Playdom
Website	www.metaplace.com

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 worlds.^[1]

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.^[2]

Notable associates

Amy Jo Kim, Advisor: Community Building on the Web (published by Peachpit Press) author
Christopher Allen, Advisor: Transport Layer Security co-creator
Cory Doctorow, Advisor: Boing Boing co-editor and Opencola co-founder
F. Randall Farmer, Advisor: co-creator of a wide range of virtual world "firsts"
Dr. Richard Bartle, Advisor: MUD1 co-creator and Designing Virtual Worlds author
Thor Alexander, Producer: Massively Multiplayer Game Development (published by Charles River Media) series editor

References

↑ "Virtual Worlds opened up to all". BBC News. 2007-09-19. Archived from the original on 11 October 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-19.
↑ "Playdom Buys Resurgent Social Games Startup Metaplace". ContentNext Media. 2010-07-08. Archived from the original on 11 July 2010. Retrieved 2010-08-02.

External links

Metaplace (official website)

MUDs

Major branches	AberMUD DikuMUD LPMud LPC MU*

Minor branches, codebases, libraries	DGD GodWars Merc MOO Mudlibs MudOS MUSH Talker TinyMUD TinyMUCK

Concepts, terminology	Alternate character Avatar Avatar customization Bartle taxonomy of player types Buff Camping Computer game bot Consider Cybersex God Gold farming Gold sink Griefer Grinding Hack and slash Immortal Implementer Kill stealing Lag Looting Mob / Monster MUD client Comparison MUD trees Mudflation Nerf Online creation Online wedding Persistent world Player character Player versus environment Player versus player / Playerkilling Powerleveling Quest Remort Rent Spam Spawning spod Social verbs Syntax guessing Tank Twinking Virtual good Wizard Zone / Area

Publications	Designing Virtual Worlds Imaginary Realities Life on the Screen "A Rape in Cyberspace" "A Story About a Tree" Terra Nova A Theory of Fun for Game Design

Companies, organizations	Areae Iron Realms Entertainment Jagex Lysator Kesmai The Mud Connector Mythic Entertainment Plaintext Players Simutronics Skotos XYZZY Award

People	Alan Cox Amy S. Bruckman Andrew Gower Ben Laurie Brad McQuaid Brian Green Bruce Woodcock Cat Rambo Chip Morningstar Christopher Howard Wolf Dr. Cat Edward Castronova Elonka Dunin Espen J. Aarseth Greg Stein J. Todd Coleman James Aspnes Jason Scott Sadofsky John Viega Joi Ito Judy Malloy Julian Dibbell Kelton Flinn Lars Pensjö Lennart Augustsson Lisbeth Klastrup Mark Jacobs Matt Mihaly Michael Lawrie Michael Seifert Mizuko Ito Nick Yee Noah Wardrip-Fruin Paul Barnett Pavel Curtis Randy Farmer Rich Skrenta Richard Bartle Sherry Turkle Stephanie Shaver Steve Yegge T. L. Taylor Wes Platt

MUDs	3Kingdoms Achaea, Dreams of Divine Lands Alter Aeon AmberMUSH Ancient Anguish Armageddon ATHEMOO Avalon: The Legend Lives AVATAR BatMUD BurningMUD Castle Marrach Costello Dark Age of Camelot Darkness Falls: The Crusade DartMUD Discworld MUD Diversity University Dragon's Gate DragonRealms DragonSpires Dune II Elendor Empire EverQuest Federation II Furcadia FurryMUCK GemStone IV Genesis LPMud Genocide God Wars II Habitat Holy Mission ifMUD Infinity (AberMUD) Infinity (LPMud) Island of Kesmai JediMUD LambdaMOO LegendMUD Lost Souls MAD MOOSE Crossing MUD1 MUD2 Medievia Meridian 59 MicroMUSE MorgenGrauen Muddy Waters NannyMUD Nightmare LPMud Northern Lights Nuclear War MUD PernMUSH Ragnarök The Realm Online Realms of Despair The Ruins of Cawdor RuneScape The Shadow of Yserbius Shattered World Star Wars MUSH Threshold TinyTIM TorilMUD TriadCity TubMUD Ultima Online Wyvern Xyllomer

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