BYOND is and always will be tailored to the creation of two-dimensional games. It's possible to create 3D worlds, but they are hackish and suck up more than their share of bandwidth and CPU as a result. Though BYOND and Multiverse share their goal; that is, to allow users to create online worlds without first spending years creating the software that supports them; they have different target audiences, different approaches to their software, and different capabilities.
I'd like to see these two websites include links to one another; that is, if somebody comes to Multiverse looking to make a massively multiplayer game of checkers, they would be directed to BYOND (which would facilitate such an absurd idea quite facilly). Conversely, if somebody came to BYOND hoping to create a 3D MMORPG, they could easily be directed to Multiverse, which seems to be tailored to just such an enviornment. Being a BYOND user myself, I know that many BYOND users would be excited to try a system for 3-D game creation.
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BYOND is and always will be tailored to the creation of two-dimensional games. It's possible to create 3D worlds, but they are hackish and suck up more than their share of bandwidth and CPU as a result. Though BYOND and Multiverse share their goal; that is, to allow users to create online worlds without first spending years creating the software that supports them; they have different target audiences, different approaches to their software, and different capabilities. I'd like to see these two websites include links to one another; that is, if somebody comes to Multiverse looking to make a massively multiplayer game of checkers, they would be directed to BYOND (which would facilitate such an absurd idea quite facilly). Conversely, if somebody came to BYOND hoping to create a 3D MMORPG, they could easily be directed to Multiverse, which seems to be tailored to just such an enviornment. Being a BYOND user myself, I know that many BYOND users would be excited to try a system for 3-D game creation.