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After losing all that it had planned to achieve, Google’s virtual world had met its death with the number of users decaying into nothingness. However in order to save the prized world from a total annihilation, Google had earlier decided to turn the virtual world open to all developers.

In the latest reports, Google has decided to turn Lively into an online gaming platform, something that can very well save it from total eradication. According reports from GDC Austin, Google will release an API that would enable its users to create basic arcade and 3D games. Creative director, Kevin Hanna stated:

There is a longer term goal of opening up the API so the architecture of Lively could be used as an online games platform.

There are quite a lot of platforms already but with Lively, developers will get a chance to take a hold of technology that runs Google (or a part of it at least). Along with that it would also let developers have a free hand at developing what makes them more interactive rather than shagging their tails behind at what’s popular. This might appear successful but eventually limits creativity, Hanna further added:

It’s sucking the life out of what should be the most creative and innovative medium out there, and I hope that this inspires those same ‘passionate start-ups’ and kids in college to actually go and produce games where they don’t have to worry about the visual bar or the accessibility, because those things are already pre-established.