Nalates' Things & Stuff

What’s Needed in Second Life

2013/05/23 by Nalates Urriah

OK… we get lots of these stories. But, Loki Eliot has a post titled: I cant control how you see my world. Loki explains what he wants to improve the experiences he builds in Second Life™. He makes some good points. Check out the article.

Patterns Game 2013-21

2013/05/23 by Nalates Urriah

For whatever reason I decided to check out Linden Lab’s™ Patterns. I haven’t followed it. So, I may have missed things. But…

It has changed a bunch since I last played with it. It has improved quite a bit. More of the controls work as toggles. The worlds I can play in have changed. There is a planetoid world. It has spherical gravity, meaning I can walk on all sides of it. You see the planetoid type world in the opening screen image. (Its out of focus in the opening screen)

The opening panel hints at things to come, I think. There is a choice for Single Player, which I assume means a multiplayer version is coming.

Oculus Rift 2013-21

2013/05/22 by Nalates Urriah

There is an interesting video about how Oculus VR™ (OVR) is changing the game design paradigms. I came across it in my Facebook browsing. 22 minutes. Nate Mitchell is speaking at GDC 2013 (Game Developers Conference) which ran from March 25 to 29.

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I’ve written about what I think the user interface problems will be. This video really gets into some of the problems and how people are handling them.

OpenSim Poll

2013/05/22 by Nalates Urriah

Hypergrid business is asking questions… they do that. Jump over and answer the two questions being asked in regard to how you use OpenSim worlds. See: Survey: How do you use OpenSim?

Second Life Script Sources

2013/05/292013/05/22 by Nalates Urriah

I recently needed to see how some things are scripted in Second Life™. I went looking for an existing script similar to what I need. I came up with these sources for free Second Life scripts.

Free LSL Scripts – This site’s domain was obviously selected for search placement: Free-SL-Scripts.com. The blog style site, once you get to the free scripts page, shows popular, recent, and after scrolling down categories of scripts. This is a great site for beginning scripters, IMO.

The site includes a great collection of tutorials on all sorts of things related to SL.

They have an in-world shop too: Phaze Demesnes.

SL Wiki Script Library – This is the script library maintained by users on the SL Wiki. It is a good collection of scripts. Some are old. A few are new.

More Griefing

2013/05/21 by Nalates Urriah

Fifteen or so region owners were at the Server & Scripting meeting Tuesday. They are having horrible griefing problems and are looking for help.

Seems repeat griefers are plaguing SL. That is not news. If you have looked at these problems, you know there is no easy way to get rid of repeat offenders. Those not familiar with the technology of the Internet always think there is a technical solution. Griefing is a human nature problem as in many cases the solutions are not technical but a matter of law enforcement. We see that in games, forums, and real life where problems of violence and hate are ongoing. Humans bent on anti-social behavior find ways around the technical solutions and legal restrictions. Technology is not going to stop humans from misbehaving. Nor is government, even when it has its foot on everyone’s neck… the complete removal of freedom. People misbehave.