Fairy Obvious?

I loved this comment by Alex on the news story about Multiverse launch; a platform for building MMOGs.

Those who can write – let us just write the story and build games bottom-up ;) How about (grand?)-parents developing storytelling applications for their and other kids and visualising them in an open web scripting environment (XML+ x3d?) – and who said we need zillion of simultaneous users?

AND we can well have an internal market in there too – why not...

I am thinking more “3d – game – blogs” – maybe EVEN in normal, not fairytale setting (let us let elves and monsters rest for a while)

This is the kind of creativity we need more often.
The Multiverse tool would have to be bloody good if there was ANY chance of my father creating a story scenario for his granddaughters (he has trouble with Christmas Cards!), but I applaud the sentiment.
Perhaps it's more likely that my daughter will create a scenario for her grandfather to show him the things that happened in her life!

Of course, I am not altruistically giving Alex applause, as I have had even more radical ideas for MMOGs since the mid-1990s... :)

Those of you who were in Malmo in 95 over several Stor Starks, will remember the discussion! (and they said it was Carlsberg that refreshes the parts other beers cannot reach! - advertising Long tail there!)

2005 has given a glimpse of the power of community; the need to be a social animal, even in cyberspace.
The standard browser is like living in solitary confinement, with a friend (the internet) on the other side of the wall, that feeds you information in response to questions.

The big question on all our minds, and one that began to be answered in 2005 is: Who are in the other cells?