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Massively Multiplayer Online games – our first step into the Metaverse.
Armed with a map that was at least semi-useful, I set out in Telon to get some levels, some loot, and some amazing screenshots. Meh. I got two of the three. My quest log is stuffed to overflowing with quests for Veskal’s Exchange… I *really* need to get back there and do some of them … Read more
In response to yesterday’s post about my return to Second Life, reader Deep Semaphore pointed me toward Play2Train, a simulation of various emergency scenarios done in Second Life, developed under the guidance of the Idaho Bioterrorism Awareness and Preparedness Program. From their site: Play2Train is a virtual training space in SecondLife designed to support Strategic … Read more
Nothing screams “fun!” like a crowd of drunken dwarves heaving up their (presumably liquid) dinners in front of a Mysteriously Glowing Portal (a MGP, as pro MMOGites say). Hey, I mean that. I come from the family that kept Milwaukee’s Best in business. So naturally, I headed right in — to Brell’s Bar, the drinking … Read more
Thanks for the heads up from MMORPG.com; I’d have missed this gem from CNN. It’s partly old news about SOE’s “G.I.R.L.” (Gonna Insult Roleplaying Ladies) program. I don’t know what it really stands for, but from what I understand, SOE feels women don’t play games or work on games, so they want to encourage more … Read more
Tipa Hawthorne at the NPR Science Friday Pavilion I think this blog could use a lot more news about Second Life, don’t you? I haven’t run Second Life for quite awhile; according to my blog, I was still insanely running Gentoo Linux because I thought I was this hardcore Linux guru, which I am not. … Read more