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 MU*

Minor branches, codebases	CD CircleMUD CoffeeMUD ColdMUD CoolMUD Copper DGD EnvyMUD FluffOS GodWars Merc Mordor MudOS MUSH NUTS ROM Sequent SMAUG Talker TinyMUD TinyMUCK BBS MUDs – Fazuul Kyrandia MajorMUD Quest for Magic Scepter of Goth

Programming languages	ColdC LPC MPI MOO MUDDL Mudlle MUF SWLPC

Mudlibs	Ain Soph Mudlib CDlib Discworld Mudlib Lima Mudlib LPUniversity Mudlib MorgenGrauen Mudlib Nightmare Mudlib TMI Mudlib

Protocols	InterMUD MCCP MXP

Clients	Comparison of MUD clients MUSHclient TinTin++ TinyFugue zMUD

Concepts, terminology	Alternate character Avatar Avatar customization Bartle Test 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 Mudlib 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

History	List of MUDs MUD trees "A Rape in Cyberspace" "A Story About a Tree"

Publications	Designing Virtual Worlds Imaginary Realities Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet 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

People	Alan Cox Aleksi Asikainen 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 Jeremy Elson 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 Salz Rich Skrenta Richard Bartle Roy Trubshaw Sherry Turkle Stephanie Shaver Steve Yegge T. L. Taylor Wes Platt

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