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Infinite Browser Universe Manyland Hits 8 Million Placed Blocks
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.
It looks like you also draw the individual sprites that make up the blocks, so there might be a 2-block "creation" that's a motorcycle for your character to ride. It's all in 2D anyhow, so 80 blocks goes much further than if you had to account for a 3rd dimension.
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
Oh you're right, this is not yet the scale of Minecraft, it's also very different, as you will see when exploring. Every distinct block is hand-drawn by the person, ranging from 19x19 pixels to 38x38 per drawing, with multiple animation cells and sometimes scripts attached to blocks, and numbers indeed don't measure the great things people have built... have a look at this screenshot gallery or explore the world and its many areas a bit to get an impression. Here's the City of Twilight or Green Mountain for instance, which you can add to too.
60^-1 plutos per cubic light year aint much. More than 8 million blocks yes, but our universe is pretty empty too.
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If you've ever been stuck between two superclusters you know what I mean.
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.
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. :)
Serious? Seriousness is well above my pay grade.
Yeah, and no gas station in sight...
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Eww. I'm eating here.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.