Quite a while ago, I started RavenJS. It was awesome fun. Seeing it grow, and in the end, being able to walk the landscape, was an amazing experience. It triggered sweet memories from the past, and also showed what was possible today. But the whole project sadly has many downsides, the biggest being the fact that I will never be able to put it online somewhere. I still believe that it would have been an awesome opportunity; if I were the original publishers, I would have jumped at it, created a freemium model around it, and spent the rest of my days wondering where to put all the money. Seriously, an online MMORPG, without any plugin or executable to download, just open your browser, enter your (OpenID-) credentials and play? With decent 3D graphics? Plus, that all in a famous setting? I can hardly imagine the amount of success of such a thing would have. (Think about it a little more – virtually no barrier to play, payment and id providers all already in place, pushing updates without downloads, and so on…)
Well, however, I don’t want to get carried away, I guess you get what I mean. So, I decided to start something else. Something that would be easier to realize for a non-3D-guy like me. And something using three.js, as I’ve always been using GLGE for my WebGL experiments (RavenJS was built using GLGE, too). And, most important, something that could be open source and live on GitHub. Something that everybody could play, download and fork. Something people could contribute to, modify, extend, make better.
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