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The Playground and the Stage (Ep. 5)

Gamecraft

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The Next Evolution of the Sandbox

The rise of the Kids Games network like Club Penguin and Neopets were all influenced by RuneScape's online community. Lindenlab and Second Life was the laboratory in which a lot of ideas about sandboxes and virtual worlds, we're still struggling with. We'll touch on this in further episodes when we talk about virtual economies.

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