Arden: The World of William Shakespeare ended a year of development, but the multiplayer online world modeled on the settings and characters in Shakespeare’s plays is incomplete. The MacArthur Foundation provided $240,000 for the project, but as Edward Castronova, the professor at Indiana University who led the virtual environment project notes in his blog, “…this is very hard to do, and especially hard to do in an academic context. ” As for future development, Castronova writes, “The Bard has left the building for now, and his return date is unknown.”