Website www.kaneva.com Founders Chris Klaus, Greg Frame | Founded 2004 Type Corporation | |
Industry computer and video game industry Key people Christopher Klaus
(Founder/CEO)
Greg Frame
(Co-founder/CGO) Products Virtual World, MMOG Platform Headquarters Atlanta, Georgia, United States Profiles | ||
Kaneva, LLC is a privately owned Atlanta-based company founded in 2004 by Christopher Klaus and Greg Frame. Kaneva was a 3D Virtual World that supported 2D web browsing, social networking and shared media.
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In 2004 Kaneva worked with Georgia's Department of Economic Development to draft a new law that would promote video game development in Georgia. It passed in 2004.
On 14 November 2016, Kaneva's online world was shut down, with its "2d" social networking site closely following.
Background
Kaneva was founded to develop a massively multi-player online game (MMOG). In late 2004, Kaneva released the first version of the Kaneva Game Platform.
Kaneva later decided to use its own technology to develop a virtual world that combined video sharing, social networking and 3D environments. In 2005, Kaneva started development on the Virtual World of Kaneva, the company’s flagship product. The Virtual World of Kaneva was released into beta in mid-2006.
A new site was created in April 2006 to allow the community of game developers to collaborate on their Kaneva Game Platform projects. This site was named the Kaneva Elite Developers Site.
The Elite Developers program was discontinued with their source code release in November 2009. The source code is hidden but still available to everyone on the resources page at in their developer web site.
In the first quarter of 2010 Kaneva released their Kaneva 3D Applications and their 3D App Game Developer Program. Kaneva shifted from featured MMO development to smaller scale 3D application development which closely mirrors the very popular Facebook applications.
Status
In June 2010, Kaneva had over five million members. However, no information has been disclosed on how many 3D Applications are in development. As of November 2016, Kaneva is offline, it was still in beta during this time.
Competitors
Kaneva has several competitors, including OSgrid.org, Smallworlds, Entropia Universe, Utherverse, IMVU, Active Worlds, Second Life and Twinity.