Worlds In Motion has an interview with Trion’s Lars Buttler about their recently acquired $30m in funding. Based on the interview here, I’d say they are trying to make the existing big publisher model apply to the Web world — a “virtual console” perhaps?
“…the platform also allows you to tap into the same experience from any connected device. We’re taking the game experience out of the client and putting it into a sophisticated infrastructure.”
Log in here to try out an Ajax client that talks to Second Life and gives you access to the basics of chat and teleportation. It’s the work of a student named Katharine Berry, and a great demonstration of why MUDs and MMORPGs (and virtual worlds!) are the same thing.
A while back I posted the song “Longitude.” This here is that song as it was originally born: just a flatpicked guitar piece. This has a little bit of echo on it, but it’s still solo guitar.
By the way, remember “Ode to Code”? It is supposed to be in the next issue of Space Squid. 🙂
I am hugely behind on these book reviews. I figured I’d start with the ones by friends. 🙂
Tales of the Atlantic Pirates and Tales Of The Jersey Devil are both by Geoff Girard. I went to college with him, and we found these on Amazon and had to pick them up. We’re alas, not in touch anymore, but I am glad to see that he kept up with the writing! The Jersey Devil was something that I had never really read into before, so it was great to learn more about that myth; and the pirate stories range from the swashbuckling to the surprisingly sensitive. Plus the historical research is great. Continue reading »
A helpful interview has been posted at Virtual Worlds News. It sounds like basically Metacrasher is trying to create glue between worlds — intermediary formats and tools that can export data to differing worlds.
This is only needed because of all these silly proprietary formats, of course. 😛
