Zombie Playground is a cool new game Kickstarter being developed by an all-start team who’ve worked on hit games like Dragon Age: Origins and Skyrim and blockbuster movies like Lord of the Rings:Two Towers and I Robot. A multiplayer RPG,…
This is a triumph; I’m making a note here — HUGE SUCCESS: Yes yes, a working portal gun inspired by Portal made by Adeon Writer. I want to tell Portal writer Erik Wolpaw about it, because he’d probably be impressed,…
SL blogger Tateru Nino wondered aloud last week why a large group of Linden Lab staff recently met in-world, noting that such convocations are « considered to be portents or harbingers of bad news by Second Life customers ».
I’m experimenting with an ad for New World Notes on Facebook, which you likely won’t see even if you’re on the social network — that’s because the Facebook advertising platform allows you to target your intended audience in an extremely…
Iris Ophelia’s ongoing take on etiquette & ethics in virtual spaces I recently wrote about the pros and cons of templates and pre-made kits for Second Life content creators, and unsurprisingly the topic created a lot of discussion and raised…
The Tiny/Robot Crossbreeding Project Has Already Begun to Bear Fruit Written 19 May, 2012 Tiny Reprieve All hail our tiny overlords! They came in the night, and not to us. A delegation of Second Life tinies went straight to the headquarters of the robot insurrection at the sanatorium on Whimsy Kaboom, which has long been in rebellion against their human masters (meaning me and Sweetie)
The Phoenix Viewer Project which develops the extremely popular third party Phoenix and Firestorm SL viewers is a registered non-profit corporation based in Minnesota — you can see the company’s listing on the state’s website here (partial screencap above) with…
CNET’s Dan Terdiman has a pretty impressive write-up of the Leap 3D motion control system from SF-based Leap Motion, which promises Kinect-style command of your computing experience with the wave (and pinch, and poke) of your hand. Watch this demo…
Nalates Urriah has an update to a post on the SL pathfinding tools that I blogged about last week, in which I quoted her that there could a « tsunami » of problems when it’s officially introduced to the main grid.
Here’s a fun video to start the week, especially if you’re a Settlers of Catan fan (and really who isn’t) — spun off from The Ting Ting’s hit, here’s « That’s Not My Game », starring Keiko Takamura: This is a music…
Lumiya: Second Life Viewer for Android Phones & Tablets — With 3D Graphics Display! Second Life Usage Dominated by Third Party Viewers — Linden Lab’s Own Software Only Used by « Minority » of SLers Makies, Customizable, 3D Printed Avatar Doll Creation…
Makies, the customizable avatars that become 3D printed dolls, just Alpha launched, so you can go to the site and create a customized avatar of your own — and when you’re ready, you can get it printed up, and sent…
Harlow Heslop has launched a great Pay it Forward Project, encouraging SLers to take some time to praise and help other SLers: Each week I will pick one person in the Second Life community that I feel has displayed a…
Facebook, a social network which earns about 15% of its revenue from virtual goods sales (i.e.
Mister Nathan Chafee has a metaverse fashion blog for manly men (maybe meterosexually so). Replete with clever poses and excellent screenshot photography and (this is especially good for dudes what are looking for duds) Marketplace and Map links for buying…
The Storybricks Kickstarter which which I blogged recently has a new video better demonstrating how cool this build-a-story kit project for MMO/RPG players and developers really is — watch: I’ve been e-mailing with Storybricks development lead and longtime veteran designer…
Iris Ophelia’s ongoing review of virtual world and MMO fashion Damien Fate’s latest release, FATEeyes [Marketplace page here], brings a pretty groundbreaking level of customization to our SL avatar’s eyes, putting detailed control of their color and position right at…
I rely on Nalates Urriah’s blog for getting geek-heavy updates about Second Life code and features, so when she mentioned in a recent post that Linden Lab’s new pathfinding features presented a possible « tsunami » of problems, I paid attention: When…
Written 16 May, 2012 Star Ruh-Roh I’ve no idea how I failed to notice this before, but recently I did. When you fly at low altitudes at night, the stars approach the horizon: The above photo was taken at 150 meters. The photo that follows was taken at 500 meters
Written 16 May, 2012 Kaboom Endures! I’m happy to say that thanks to the kindness of a neighbor and friend, Whimsy Kaboom will remain on the grid. Changes will be tiny (literally). I will need the help of my muse to tell the full story
Third party viewer developer Tonya Souther recently pointed out a very important March interview on Treet TV with Linden Lab’s Open Development director Scott « Oz Linden » Lawrence, which includes a crucial passage I initially missed. It’s so important, it needs…
World Realms is a very new cool Kickstarter game project with a great premise: MMO questing combined with word games matched to the uniquely wacky humor that made Kingdom of Loathing such a successful indie MMO. Think WoW meets Words…
On Monday I wrote about Lumiya, the app that runs SL on Android phones and tablets, and now here’s Wolden Avro taking it for a test drive on a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1: Frame rate and display ain’t super great,…
Last week, our post about SL templates — pre-made kits/pieces that fashion designers can use to easily create their own sellable content — caused a fair amount of controversy and conversation; clearly there’s a lot of questions out there that…
Blizzard’s Diablo III is launching today, and with it, the Auction House, where players can trade game items for real money. (Check out Blizzard’s FAQ on it here.) The latest installment in a best-selling franchise (Diablo II sold 4 million…
Interesting: The official site for the Phoenix 3rd party SL viewer gets about 47,000 unique monthly visitors, according to Google Ad Planner. Traffic to the site has remained constant over the last year (with occasional spikes, presumably for important updates),…
Storybricks Alpha launched in Unity for the web recently — check it out, though remember it’s Alpha and rough around the edges (and elsewhere). As I blogged recently, Storybricks is an innovative, build-a-story kit project for MMO/RPG players and developers…
Neva River by HivaAO Insoo Written 14 May, 2012 Wilderness Survey I’ve been following the Linden blog, so I was blindsided by an e-mail questionnaire the company sent me, asking about the Wilderness. I’ve not been there and I’m not even sure what it is, but they made the mistake of asking how they could improve the Premium experience. Here’s what I wrote in the box: Stop trying to turn Second Life into a video game.
The latest version of the Lumiya Second Life viewer for Android phones and tablets comes with a pretty cool feature: 3D display of the world itself. Unless I missed another one, this is be the first third party SL app…
Courtesy Louis Platini’s Metaverse Business, a Second Life/OpenSim analytics company that gathers publicly accessible in-world data for its clients, here’s April 2012′s top 25 most popular Second Life sims including Adult-rated regions, which are generally porn, listed according to their…
Coming this September, my new book Game Design Secrets from Wiley will focus on games for iOS, Facebook, and the Web, and the key features to marketing and monetizating them. All three platforms have opened up huge opportunities for low…
« Skyrim: How Marketing Turned a Niche Product Into a Mass Market Hit » is my latest article for The CMO Site edited by Mitch Wagner, and as you might have guessed, it’s about how Bethesda and advertising agency AKQA launched a…
SL News, Culture, and Opinion Iris Rants: Why Templates (and the SL Designers Who Use Them) Get Under My Skin Second Life Users’ Tolerance of SL’s Technical Troubles Helps Stymie SL’s Growth — Here’s Why SL’s Latest Mesh-Based Style Craze:…
Waking Mars is an acclaimed new iOS game which has just been updated and discounted; in it, you play a lone, stranded explorer with a jetpack, in caverns of Mars recently discovered to be full of life. It’s by Randy…
Gamasutra’s Leigh Alexander has a good long article on text-based gaming, including an interview with Linden Lab’s Emily Short, co-founder of the Little Text People studio recently acquired by Linden. Some hints are dropped about the project Ms
The Ashraya Project is an SL fundraising effort to benefit Ashraya, a Bangalore-based organization « dedicated to finding solutions for children within the frame work of their own biological families, or in adoptive homes ».
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- Cool Kickstarter: Panzer Pets, Customizable Pet Robot MMO
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