Need help remembering the name of a multi-player world-building game

September 22, 2010 9:01 PM

Earlier this year I watched a demo of an upcoming multi-player, online video game. In this game, you explored and build structures and traps using an extensive toolkit of components. Some items had sensors that could trigger events on other items. Tower-defense + sandbox + player-vs-player. Help me remember the game's name?

Only other things I can think of, the game might have been from an independent studio, possibly even open-sourced? Seems like the demo or walk-through I saw was first-person only. And I think it might have been only for Windows. Kind of had LittleBigPlanet's sense of creation to it.

posted by phoeniciansailor to Computers & Internet (6 answers total)

Minecraft, perhaps?
posted by NMcCoy at 9:05 PM on September 22, 2010

Response by poster: @NMcCoy Minecraft is what got me thinking about it, so good guess. But this game was much prettier, and had no zombies (as far as I know).
posted by phoeniciansailor at 9:13 PM on September 22, 2010

Crossfire?
posted by iconomy at 9:17 PM on September 22, 2010

Best answer: Love?

(Some communities for it seem to be here and here.)
posted by rivenwanderer at 9:19 PM on September 22, 2010

Best answer: Prettier, huh? It definitely sounds like Love. Here's the trailer for confirmation.
posted by Rhaomi at 9:22 PM on September 22, 2010

Response by poster: Yes, that's it, thank you! Man, the search terms were not on my side with this one. ;) Gunna watch the video now to see how much I remembered incorrectly. Thanks @rivenwanderer, @Rhaomi!
posted by phoeniciansailor at 9:30 PM on September 22, 2010