Idea convergence

Gee, I've been blogging alot lately about my own projects. I'm sorry that it's not really ready for general consumption, but rest assured that eventually you'll see a nifty 2d tile based rpg engine that not only can you have interesting adventures in, but you'll be able to create your own and share them with other folks. Using a simple JSON script, you'll be able to post a "world" on any server and point to it from the game to play. You'll even be able to do "linked" worlds - from server to server.

I'm trying to figure out how to do multiplayer - with one idea being adapting this engine to the Yahoo plugin architecture. This is why it's suddenly making sense to do this in HTML - I can create an Opera widget easily, and most likely the Yahoo IM plugin would be pretty trivial (but Sweet!) to do as well. Imagine clashing swords with your buddies via IM and pillaging their stash of gold and weapons...

I'd give anything to have a few days off from real life to get something pulled together quickly. Between work and a baby on the way its basically nights and weekends when I'm not exhausted :)

Why did I title this "idea convergence?" Because there are so many things going on with casual games, mmo's , web 2.0 stuff, and ideas I've had for a long time that are coming together with this little silly rpg engine.