AN entrepreneurial Lytchett Matravers teenager has created an on-line game world that already has almost 2,500 users, and is gaining more every day.

Attilio Infante launched virtual world, Take it Beyond an Adventure, or TBA, from his bedroom last August.

The 17-year-old Poole Grammar School student said the site, www.tbadventure.com, was getting about 25,000 hits a month.

He added: "So far there have been 2,418 playing and it goes up by around 40 a day."

Attilio is helped by a team of 10 volunteers, from Poole and around the world, to design and maintain the fantasy environment, which he describes as "a world where you can be anyone you choose and do anything you like".

He said: "You can go to the beach, city, desert, woods or mountains, the weather changes according to the time of year. For instance, over Christmas I added snow and Christmas items such as Santa hats and snowmen."

Visiting the world is free although there is the option of paying a one-off fee of £9 to unlock additional services in the game.

The sixth-former, who also runs a website creating and computer building company, Digitil, from his home, said he had been working on the project in his spare time for two years altogether.

"I was curious about websites and I read up about them on the internet," he said.

"I then learned about the language of the server software, and eventually created my own server.

"The project has taught me everything."

At the moment he is working on mountains and volcanoes within the game, and creating new activities such as cooking, fishing, mining and exploring.

But in the future the A-level student plans to put the project on hold during a gap year and while he is at university studying French and Italian.

"The website will run itself, and I can leave it as a possible income," he added. "My future plans are to make it possible for anyone to create their own world using the software I have created so anyone can experience the fantastic feeling of owning their own world."