Infinite Browser Universe Manyland Hits 8 Million Placed Blocks 67
j_philipp (803945) writes Manyland [Here's the twitter feed and a FAQ] is an HTML5 / JavaScript-based MMO universe created by a community and two indie developers from Europe. Everything in the world can be freely drawn and placed: From the cars, animals, plants, houses, bridges, to everyone's own bodies. Like Wikipedia, by default areas are editable by everyone (and removing a block leaves dust which can be used to undo the removal). Since the opening a year ago, over 100,000 different creations have been made, and now, over 8 million blocks placed. Some features are for logged-in users only, but the whole thing is free to explore for everyone, and it's just sucked away quite a few minutes for me.
Infinite universe with 8 million blocks? (Score:1)
Lets see, that is exactly 0 blocks per cubic light year. Sounds pretty empty.
Re:Infinite universe with 8 million blocks? (Score:4, Funny)
60^-1 plutos per cubic light year aint much. More than 8 million blocks yes, but our universe is pretty empty too.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=... [wolframalpha.com]
http://www.wolframalpha.com/in... [wolframalpha.com]
If you've ever been stuck between two superclusters you know what I mean.
Re:Infinite universe with 8 million blocks? (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, and no gas station in sight...
If Minecraft is anything to go by (Score:3)
So, 8 million blocks, and 100,000 creations means 80 blocks per creation. If Minecraft is anything to go by, that'd be the equivalent of about a 5x5 house that was 4 blocks tall...and had no roof. I suppose that's a "creation", but if that's all they're averaging, they're not doing so hot. Pretty much everyone I've ever seen play Minecraft manages to do better than that in the first few minutes, and by the end of their first sitting, they've usually expanded on it substantially.
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Re:If Minecraft is anything to go by (Score:4, Informative)
If you find one that goes too high, it'll send you to intermission. I went for quite a while, and there was always something there. It's like My Little Pony, Minecraft, and Mario Brothers were thrown in a blender and thrown on a Geocities page. :)
Re:If Minecraft is anything to go by (Score:4, Funny)
Eww. I'm eating here.
Re:If Minecraft is anything to go by (Score:5, Interesting)
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Same on FF on Linux with NoScript permitting their main site, netdna, and Google APIs but not Google Analytics.
Given the comments here, I'm not going to waste my time to figure out which combination of whitelisting gets the game to work but forbids raping my privacy.
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yep same here. It isn't even like I have many tabs open in Firefox, and I would rather not use Chrome.
compilers, have you heard of them? (Score:2, Funny)
HTML5 and JavaScript universe on a C++ compiled browser, that's not interpreted enough. Yo hipsters I heard you like JavaScript so if you run Manyland in WebKit.js you can interpret while you interpret.
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actually browser vendors have. they use stuff called like "LLVM" to do "JIT". If you browse the site with IE 6 though, YMMV. There were javascript performance wars, and nowadays browsers are pretty advanced.
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Performance is not so much a problem as that stuff looks like it would run on a 486SX (if the 2D graphics card were fast enough)
Bigger problem is that the game is unreliable - though factors such as using Wifi may make it so.
There was a pianpo keyboard near the spawn. Game can't decide which mouse button plays the piano, and whether striking a key works immediately, never or plays a delayed sound. A couple minute later after climbing up like 100 meters, I hear some piano notes again.
Giant 2D side-scroller (Score:4, Insightful)
This is Minecraft reduced to a 2D sidescroller. With the graphics of the 2D sidescroller era.
If you go too far down, you can fall off the bottom of the world.
Re: how to run Manyland server? (Score:2)
Hey jerk. If you want one write your own. Maybe you can also ask them if they share the code. However, the idea behind such universes is that you do not split things up.
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he means free healthcare.
Even there (Score:1)
And this world is gigantic, took me a while to find the edge.
Very 80s looking (Score:2)
Sorry, but that looks like 1980's level graphics to me, maybe at the level of the early Amiga games. Not impressed.
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Sorry, but that looks like 1980's level graphics to me, maybe at the level of the early Amiga games. Not impressed.
Out of interest, have you ever complained about "games these days" being "all fancy graphics and no gameplay"?
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I owned an Amiga, you whelp, so I saw plenty of them.
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Nope. I love a good graphics show. But I don't really play games any more, so I can't speak to their playability.
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What's wrong with old school retro graphics?
struggling (Score:2)
Can we still slashdot things?
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Can we still slashdot things?
Virtualization now allows admins to just add servers quickly to handle the load - still gets noticed, though. Didn't you see the "Welcome Slashdotters" sign?
Why is 8M a milestone? (Score:2)
Why not 5M or 10.15365M? What makes 8M a number that needs to be announced & celebrated?
um... (Score:2)
It's the Commander Keen MMO
I'm not impressed
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I was actually thinking Crystal Caves or the original Duke Nukem.
Kinda fun, though, I logged and and created some stuff. No one minded. Wish I could do that in WoW.
Another infinite browser universe sim (Score:1)
Omega [github.com] See it in action here [megaverse.net].
Similar to Habitat? (Score:1)
This reminds me of Habitat.
http://web.stanford.edu/class/history34q/readings/Virtual_Worlds/LucasfilmHabitat.html
They surpassed Minecraft in stuffs and griefing (Score:2)
the hell? (Score:2)
Thanks Slashdot...for making me hooked on ManyLand (Score:3)
Unfortunately I ended up building areas for hours and hours, before I knew it...I think I ended up rebuilding Hyrule's many castles, doh! Thanks a lot, yet another addiction I really didn't need in my life.
Phun aside, I'm thinking Little Big Planet here, except in LBP we could even create our own games (simulate Pac-Man, Tetris..space invaders etc...) and people came up with the coolest stuff - and before you knew it...there was MILLIONS of levels in LBP. I think that's whats missing in this game, but hey...maybe there already is something similar there...and I just didn't find it?
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Doesn't work in IE 6?? (Score:2)
Those developers must suck. Every corporate app works just fine so that must be it.
Phb boss: Files bug report
TRWTF: EOL'd desktop OS connected to Internet (Score:2)
The real WTF is that the firewall in front of your Windows XP machine even allowed this site to resolve.
Windows XP has vulnerabilities that Microsoft will never fix. So please don't use IE on XP on the public Internet. If you must use corporate apps on XP, use a firewall to make sure the machine communicates only with those corporate apps.
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(Un)fortunately the transport layer for the internet is extremely inefficient at transporting smell. If it were made from air, it might be a bit better, but its fiber.
User-extensible, eh. (Score:1)
Sounds like a MUD, only graphical. Not sure how many MUDders are still around and have enough free time to appreciate it.
Under 30 seconds. (Score:2)