some good places to go visit - from the SL THings To Do list/website - http://www.slthingstodo.com/main/AllThingsToDo - probably ahve to log in to see
check out Pac-Man game inat intoint (59, 135,32) - alos mentioned on the SL Games blog - see slgames.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/i-pac-man/
Eccentricity 130,62,28 - they have a pirate ship (this might dump ya in [...]
Archive > May 2008
SL notes
textbook notes - SL book - ch6
from SL book - ch6 - building basics
i want htem to go thru this, build in sandboxes, and take basic building classes, book has a good tutorial on bilding a room, don’t need to do the flexi-prim stuff if htey don’t want this semester
this semester just an intro - book started by talking about prims [...]
textbook notes - SL book - ch5
from SL book - ch5 - SecondLife Culture and Relationships
SL all about the people - notice data from the chapter came from interviews - remember behind every avatar is a person with real feelings and real lives outside of SL - no npcs (well - there are a couple of bots being used for research [...]
textbook notes - SL book - ch4
from SL book - ch4 - Your Avatar - Your Virtual Self
talks about how to save appearance - that’s important - show them some of my appearance folders to see how easy it is to switch (if there’s not too much lag), got to remember to do that right up front, start with the boring [...]
textbook notes - SL book - ch3
from SL book - ch3 - Communication and Social networking
most comm in SL - chat =Â real time typed text visible to anyone in the area so it’s local, IM = private real time typed text between you and a specific person (or group) who can be anywhere in world
have to get a feel [...]
textbook notes - SL book - ch2
book - ch2 - Exploring the new frontier
take time on orientation and help island because there are important basic skills
basic tutorials about walking, running, flying - using arrow keys, gives some specific exercises like try to follow an avatar (we could play follow the leader), directions for landing gracefully
basic explanation of camera controls (default = [...]
textbook notes - SL book - ch1
from SL book - Ch1 - Welcome to SecondLife
words for a vocab quiz - avatar, sim prim inventory, Linden rez, landmark, mainland, teleport (TP), TOS (terms of service), alts, griefers, newbie
features introduced
inventory (can carry unlimited # of things, some stuff in inventory of new characters)
landmarks - map locations of cool places (landmarks go into inventory) [...]
reading notes - building a mmorpg
Making a MMORPG - ch 7 from Massively Multi-player online role playing games by R.V. Kelly 2 (2004)
good for beginning designers because it lists lots of different jobs and the complexity - of design doc, of building, of testing, and of the business end (attracting audience, making profit, continuing development, timing of next version)
steep learning [...]
reading notes - mmorpg culture
mmorpg culture, ch2 from Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games, by R.V. Kelly 2
something i wondered about - does real life personality affects what kind of game you prefer, and your behaviors in the game , books seems to say mmo’s play with hte magic circle - there are few real world consequences but real world [...]
textbook notes - ch4
ch4 - History
lots of info organized by decade and by genre (just adventure, action, strategy, process-oriented/ simulations) - lots and lots of details, games, studios, hard part is what’s the take-away
I think I”ll ask the students to re-organize the material by characteristics outside the industry such as technology, player characteristics, politics, economics -have to read [...]
