Archive for 'Game Development in SL'
Giant Snail Races Leave Trails of Tears and Slime
by Alex Fitzsimmons The competition in RacerX Gullwing’s Giant Snail Races may not be the fastest in the world of Second Life, but it may well be the biggest and slimiest. Giant racing snails at the gate.
Full StoryProk’s Candid Conversations with the Core: Cristiano Midnight, Part Two
Is Prokofy “inner core”? After the enthusiastic reception that greeted Part One of Prokofy Neva’s Candid Conversation with Cristiano Midnight (well, contentious reception, anyway), the Herald’s crack fact-checking team has double- and triple-checked Part Two for contextual errors and asset-server screw-ups. We’re sure our readers will point out any that slipped through, but to do [...]
Full StoryGame Developer Rants burn houses, babies and bridges
If you hadn’t caught them earlier, Cory Ondrejka’s (aka Cory Linden’s) Terra Nova forum threads about the now-infamous Game Developers Rants, were Slashdotted yesterday. The main two Terra Nova threads are called ‘Burning Down the House’ and ‘Burn baby burn’. Some of the things that games developers came out with were beauties like these: “Iwata-san [...]
Full StoryGame Review: “Settlers of Second Life: Catan it colonize SL gaming?”
Pirate Cotton reviews the new Second Life strategy board-game ‘Settlers of Second Life’. Pirate is an opinionated SL blogger (http://www.tinypirate.com) with an interest in gaming and Second Life culture. He brings his considerable experience as co-builder of Dark Life – Second Life’s first MMORPG (recently featured front-page at secondlife.com) – and creator of the ‘Game [...]
Full StoryUnreal:SL Reviewed
an in-game game review by Koden Farber Everyone has one of those days when you just want to shoot something. On days like this a good first person shooter comes in handy. Unreal: Second Life is the Bedazzle Team’s attempt at FPS in second life. The project itself is is reportedly coming to a close [...]
Full StoryTringo Star
Congratulations to SL resident Kermitt Quirk, inventor of Tringo, the game that’s swept Second Life over the last several months. After developing the game on his time off, Kermitt found Tringo becoming one of the grid’s most popular pastimes. Now it’s about to hit RL, as Kermitt has cut a licensing deal with SF’s Donnerwood [...]
Full StoryNeualtenburg – SL`s Most Hated Project
“On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love sent to me, a democractic socialist republic.” At her blog, Gwyneth Llewellyn recently looked at some of the same virtual governance issues discussed in Urizenus’ State of Play discussion. The ever-misspelt Neultenburg projekt, of which Gwyneth is a key figure, has become something of a Bavarian [...]
Full StorySL’s Baddest Builder, part 1: Yadni the Junkyard Dawg
In his first life, Yadni Monde is a night clerk in a hotel in a secluded corner of France, but in his Second Life ™ he is the baddest architect on the grid. With an imagination fueled by a massive library of classical and fantasy architecture and copious amounts of ganga, he doesn’t just build [...]
Full StoryGame Reviews: #1 Living the Dark Life
by Koden Farber For those who love role playing games but are so addicted to Second Life they can’t log off to play something else, several in-game games may be the solution. In this report, I begin a series of reviews of in world games. This week we dive into Dark Life. In subsequent reviews [...]
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