BKL and the minecraft effect

I am speechless.

Somebody on Hacker News just posted A Minecraft-like Block Based Game Engine Using Three.js, WebGL and Node (badassjs.com).

This is already cool.

But in the comments somebody else promoted BLK – a project from Ben Vanik – a Google employee – who created BKL in his 20% Google spare time.

I set up a server on Amazon EC2, and the t1.micro instance was seconds ago populated by people – building things.

The Minecraft effect is incredible.

[EDIT] link to the main page is here.