N. Evan Van Zelfden, Contributing Writer, VentureBeat

Austin Game Event: Lively by Google Could Be Expanded to Include Games

September 17, 2008 at 12:03 am PT

The Austin Game Developers Conference featured one of the first official public dissections of the Lively by Google virtual world (or virtual room), and I got a chance to sit down with the project’s creative director, Kevin Hanna, in advance of that talk.

One of the news tidbits: Lively could be expanded into the casual game space as Google plans to release guidelines for more interactive components, meaning games, inside Lively spaces.

“We’re about to open up the API for interactive gadgets–meaning games,” he said.

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