| Kaneva, LLC | |
| Type: | Corporation |
| Foundation: | 2004 |
| Founder: | Christopher Klaus |
| Location: | Atlanta, Georgia |
| Key People: | Christopher Klaus (Founder/CEO) Greg Frame (Co-founder/CGO)[1] |
| Industry: | Video games |
| Products: | Kaneva |
| Successor: | Kava, LLC |
Kaneva, LLC is a privately owned American video game company based in Atlanta, Georgia and 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.
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.[2]
On 1 July 2016, Kaneva's website suffered a data breach that exposed 3.9 million user records. The breach was reported on December 9, 2023. The data included email addresses, usernames, dates of birth and salted MD5 password hashes.[3] [4]
On 14 November 2016, Kaneva
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.[5] The Virtual World of Kaneva was released into beta in mid-2006.
A new website 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 was available to everyone on the resources page on their developer website which is now defunct and no longer available to the public.
In the first quarter of 2010, Kaneva released their Kaneva 3D Applications and their 3D App Game Developer Program, which is now defunct and available to developers.[6] Kaneva shifted from featured MMO development to smaller scale 3D application development which closely mirrors the very popular Facebook applications.
On 14 November 2016, Kaneva was shut down, along with its online community shortly after. In 2017, the company launched a new game, CasinoLife Poker, for mobile platforms and as a Facebook app.
The original Kaneva platform had several competitors during its lifetime, including Roblox, OSgrid.org, Smallworlds, Entropia Universe, Utherverse, IMVU, Active Worlds, vSide, Second Life and Twinity.
CasinoLife Poker had several competing games offering poker in virtual reality, such as Casino VR Poker, Poker Show VR and VR Poker.[7]