Every pixel is drawn by all of us, every block placed by us, villages spring up, whole lands, friendships form, and there’s no artificial barrier that would keep you occupied or limited. Manyland is a massively-multicitizen, infinite, connected and open universe where everything you see is created by all of us together. Since many readers will not be aware, could you describe what exactly Manyland is and how it works? We are a team who work together happily with the growing group of Manylanders, who are amazing us everyday with their work within the world. I had put up a project description on StackOverflow and was extremely lucky that Scott replied, jumped right into it, started co-conceptualizing with me, even quit his day job, and then set up the whole technology stack from A to Z and developed Manyland. None of these drafts directly resulted in a project back then, but I was lucky around 2 years back when I turned things into a more concrete concept to have stumbled on the tech mastermind of Manyland, Scott. At around the same time, there was this separate idea for a shared sketch that would display right in the browser, a new theme everyday, where everyone would be able to edit one square in the grid - to then decide through up and downvotes which parts of the grid would be replaced, creating a new sketch everyday that wasn’t drawn by a single person… but together by a whole group. In 2008, I emailed some of my friends with a rough sketch for a massive-multiplayer platformer, where the fun was seeing everyone else jump around and perform challenges. I’ve always had an interest in world and story-building platforms, and it’s what got me started with games programming in the late 90s, when I focused on creating choose-your-own-adventure systems and a graphical adventure creation framework. The idea for Manyland goes back many years, and was inspired by a lot of the games and virtual worlds from the 1980’s and 90’s - Lemmings, Zak McKracken, Worlds Away, Hunter, Great Giana Sisters, IRC… from adventures to platformers to chat communities. Manyland is co-created by Scott Lowe and me, and now evolved and built with a growing, terrific community… we’re really trying to invent a universe together. Philipp co-created the game with Scott Lowe and are currently evolving Manyland with a growing community who they put before anything else.Ĭould you tell us a little about the people behind Manyland? What got you guys together and how did you end up deciding to make Manyland? If you enjoy playing the game, don't hack around with the script.In this week’s interview with an indie developer, we caught up with Philipp Lenssen, one of the minds behind Manyland – a game created by its own players. So it would seem that there are checks for this type of thing, and that it's frowned upon. Upon trying to log back in I saw the dreaded "YOU'RE CURRENTLY LOCKED OUT." screen. Only this time, reincarnation didn't happen. Being so pleased with myself at having figured this out, I was a bit careless and fell off the edge the platform, plummeting to my usual death/reincarnation. After fiddling around with it for a couple of hours, I found a variable whose value I could switch from 3 to 5, and after doing so, I had the abillity to delete and create cells within that radius!Įxcited, I ran toward my erroneous cell placement, eager to clean it up. I wanted to clean up those cells, so I thought "Hey, it's Javascript - I wonder if I can switch a variable somewhere to change my permissions".
As a result, the leftmost end of the area I constructed was littered with cells forming incomplete terrain - very ugly. The problem is that some of the cells I was able to place, I was unable to delete. No problem, right? I'll just delete some of them and clean it up, staying outside of that radius. So I was putting together a platform from which to view the stars, and found that I accidentally started to overlap with that centre radius. There is however a slight difference between where one can build and where one can delete. My character is only level 3, and as a result, I can't build or delete within a 100 cell radius of the center of any public worlds. In building one construction, I ran into a problem.
I was playing around in Manyland, having found myself very addicted.
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