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I haven't really looked closely at GWT. It looks like a neat idea, but it has ranked fairly low on my "need to know" list. Outside of the potential for Seam/GWT integration it doesn't really intersect with the technologies important to me, and the demos I've seen haven't been very compelling.

Then, I stumbled across kdice. Kdice is a multiplayer version of the great Dice Wars flash game. Anyone who has played Dice Wars has to have at some point wondered what Dice Wars would be like as a multiplayer game. Kdice is exactly that.

After playing a few games, I got curious about how it was implemented. It turns out that Kdice is a GWT application. That's quite interesting. It certainly looks a lot better than any GWT application I've seen. Looking a bit more closely, it's actually a GWT+Flash game. I won't even pretend to understand GWT enough to know what that looks like on the code side, but I'm quite curious. GWT is definitely on my list of technologies to investigate further. Sadly, that list is fairly long, and with the the amount of time I'm wasting playing Kdice, I can't imagine I'm going to have much free time.