It's a 2D sandbox game editor, made using Java and Box2D, with the Lua programming language for ingame scripting. The owner and creator is Jacob "Jacob_" Morgan, who started it around 2009. The site first got hosted in November 2010, just over a year ago. He temporarily stopped development in late summer 2011, due to community issues and his entering Georgia Tech college, but restarted updates around January 1st.
The community is pretty small; there's only about 20 very active users at the moment, max. Having 10 or more users online at once happened very often from April through August, but is rare now. There aren't too many good games as of yet, as not too many players know much Lua and the ones who do (such as myself) are often busy with other commitments, and sometimes the bugs that still pop up now and again are discouraging.
There IS multiplayer; currently only available through port-forwarding or using Hamachi, because Jacob is hosting a Minecraft server and cannot host the buggy, dedicated Buildism server at the same time.
The community is pretty small; there's only about 20 very active users at the moment, max. Having 10 or more users online at once happened very often from April through August, but is rare now. There aren't too many good games as of yet, as not too many players know much Lua and the ones who do (such as myself) are often busy with other commitments, and sometimes the bugs that still pop up now and again are discouraging.
There IS multiplayer; currently only available through port-forwarding or using Hamachi, because Jacob is hosting a Minecraft server and cannot host the buggy, dedicated Buildism server at the same time.