For no reason I can think of this reminds me of Spacewar. I've no idea why, just does. This was in 1962, see: http://inventors.about.com/od/sstartinventions/a/Spacewar.ht... which predates even me. I didn't know about it until Steven Brand wrote about it in his book described here: http://wheels.org/spacewar/stone/rolling_stone.html The book and Brand's enthusiasm is what got me involved with computers in the first place. If Schemaverse does the same for someone else then that is a very good thing. As for the pointy hair folk who mumble about too much time on someone's hands, well, sit them down and make them play!
Since you mentioned Spacewar in a post about an MMO, I feel like I need to plug http://www.mmospacewar.com which is a fork I made of MMO Asteroids (featured here as the top post about a month ago) to make it behave more like Spacewar. It isn't fully polished yet (I'd like to use better sprites, the energy costs may need some tweaking, and I'd like to improve support for choosing instances), but it is functional and you and others might find it interesting.
