It’s been a slow Friday afternoon at the end of a four day heatwave—it’s now a chilly 84° in NJ. When my beta invitation to Atmosphir, the do-it-yourself virtual world startup, appeared in my mailbox, I decided to take the bait and escape reality for an hour or two
I’m not really that interested in multi-player games, but after seeing what a 12-year-old boy did with Amosphir during a what-kids-are-doing-with-the-Internet interlude at a recent New York Tech Meetup, I was impressed. At his age I was making paper-mache volcanoes.
What’s unique about Atmosphir is that it gives users a well-developed tool kit to create their own multi-level games on a 100×100 grid. While it looked easy when demoed by that tech-savvy child, this adult was having his share of design challenges.
As Groucho said, “it’s so easy a four-year old could do it, quick someone get me a four-year old.”
After the jump, you can see a few virtual worlds built by members of the Atmosphir community.
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