Lore du Jour

I have been doing some 2d Tile Mapping lately using Mappy Tile Map Editor, and having a lot of fun. However, when ever I look for tiles, they are always ripped from games. And it seems like its the same games every time. It seems like there has never really been a ultra popular multiplayer 2D game. There have been popular games like The Pokemon ones and a lot of the other Nintendo ones, but nothing really for the PC that ever got popular.

As I have been surfing the internet, I have started to find several small independent browser games using Javascript to create a map with tiles that you can use on the site, and it works very well. A good example of this is Nowhere Else and Beyond (nowhere-else.org). It uses a tile map, that you can walk around on, but made with Javascript and PHP. However, that game is also not very popular.

I am hoping a 2D multiplayer tile map game will get popular enough so its actually fun to play.