DISPLACED LIVELY USERS FINDING NEW HOME IN NEWLIVELY?
Via Metaplace’s Raph Koster we learn that a China based company has founded NewLively, a VMRL replacement for Google’s recently shuttered virtual world that’s quite, err, brazen in its interface, down to X-Ray Kid‘s character art on its familiarly-sparse login screen. The company claims, however, that its platform was rebuilt from the ground up:
After the closure of Lively, there is no greater happiness than to duplicate Lively for the sake of the Lively users. We understand that this activity would generate a certain degree of legal risk. However, whenever I remember the disheartenment and disappointment of that many Lively users, this risk is worth taking and the users will support us…
We are not using any codes whatsoever from Google Lively. The entire platform was created new from scratch. Only the concept and the interface remained as Google Lively and the amount of work involved in doing this was quite insignificant in comparison to the creation of the entire system. Moreover, in our understanding of the kinds of platforms, copyright privileges should go to the content providers. As long as these content providers are willing to transfer the platform to Newlively, there will be no issues.
Previously:
Google shuttering virtual world Lively – Offworld
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