Second Life and Virtual Worlds
I have a curiosity about what makes a game popular. I would like to make a game and make millions. I doubt I have the patience to build such a game. I like skipping to new things and figuring them out. I suppose it is more about feeding my curiosity than actually building things.
Whatever the case, this page is my collection of articles about what makes games great.
Massively Overpowered has an article up titled: THE DAILY GRIND: WHICH MMO HAS THE BEST EYECANDY? Readers are contributing screen captures. Surprisingly only a couple of images surpass what we have in Second Life™, at least in my opinion. I decided to put some of my images from SL up in a comment. From … Read more
Maria Korolov has an article on Hypergrid Business: How to set up your new mobile VR viewer. So if you have Google Cardboard and have been looking to get it working with a viewer… There is a previous article titled: How to watch YouTube on Cardboard viewers.
In Second Life™ we have griefers. I think that is because cheating in Second Life isn’t really possible in the word’s common sense of usage. It’s that long term debate about whether Second Life is a game that I think drives use of the word griefer. If it isn’t a game, how can you cheat? … Read more
This is a new video of how the LEAP is changing their thinking in regard to the Oculus Rift type headsets.
I went through today and updated my blog roll. I removed sites that have not posted anything in the last 12 months or so. I added two or three replacement links. I also added several from the Firestorm Gateway Project. For information on the project see: NEW: Share your love of Second Life with new … Read more
Massively Overpowered has an article about a surprising purchase of an in game rifle. See: ONE-OF-A-KIND ENTROPIA UNIVERSE RIFLE. Will we ever see such high priced items in Project Sansar? One of the problems in Second Life™ is the copyboting. It isn’t just a problem for those of us in Second Life. It is a … Read more
I am fascinated with Second Life images appearing on Flickr. Many are strictly artistic, others erotic, many pornographic, and most just pictures. I’ve noticed some of the fashion blogs have very talented people doing the art, but how to categorize those images is debatable. While commercial art is still an art form there are the … Read more
There are advances in the High Fidelity project. They have released a video to show us what they were up to in September. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8BPTMskaxA