> Make a multi-player game engine of some sorts. Also, it should be fun. And fast. And have a sweet 3D rendering engine.

You're trying to get me to resurrect Darien's 3D RinkChat idea, aren't you? ASCII graphics, real time 3D, but with a 1 frame per 7 second refresh rate. Sounds exciting to me, anyway.

Seriously, I've been exploring options for a multiplayer game engine of some kind (*any* kind -- getting multiplayer pong working is the hard part; doing a complex multiplayer game after that is just work) for quite a while now. RinkChat is sufficiently flaky that I'm pretty sure I don't want to attempt a multiplayer game engine in CGI. I'm planning on exploring PHP and java servlets, which have better potential. The tricky part is figuring out the front end. Java applets are about all I can figure out for being sufficient for implementing the real time stuff on the front end, and we both know what nasty problems applets have.