links for 2008-07-10

First in a thread about brows­er-based games engines. In the plug-in space, Uni­ty is with­out a doubt the best option, but for those (like me) who want some­thing that *only* requires a brows­er (think Wee­war) there are few options if any.

Koster on Google’s entry into the vir­tu­al worlds space: “Not exact­ly the recipe one would expect from Google, bar­ring the dis­trib­uted nature of it, and in some ways, not the one you would expect for a move for the future of vir­tu­al worlds.”