Dedric Mauriac

Thinking about game ideas after seeing todays panel of in-world game creators. Thought of something like 7 Seas, but with aliens. Now the trick is figuring out how to really make it different instead of just using the bland /1cast, wait, /1cast, wait, … Need some action and wits behind it.
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Fleche Xeno invited me over to a panel of game creators. Among the panelists were Sahar Irata (BTCM Combat Sim), SweetSins Pinklady (Take it or leave it host), and Jenn Shikami & Seven Shikami (7Seas Creators). Questions were fielded in how the games are unique, create a community, attract newcommers, support, scripting, social aspects, etc. Still in progress and some interesting answers from the panalists.
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GoSpeed is playing some tunes tonight at the clocktower on Edloe. There were a few buffer overrun problems with the stream, but a reboot to the router took care of it. Meanwhile most of us were just having a good time talking about parking Borg cubes, aerial adventures, green prim hair in real life, kittens with earbuds, and a commitment to refuse to be fair and balanced. Shocker: Freebird was actually played tonight.
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Crap drops by and sets up a Calendar Cog letting everyone know when events happen on the five islands. Rather than using the original object, I gave crap a copy of my comment box for him to drop the scripts into. Visit the Calendar Cog website to see more about the cog, or visit the Five Islands Calendar.
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Crap Mariner hops over to meet Jack Pitts. Of course, we all knew each other already since Jack was living a bit to the south. For some reson, this ground thing doesn’t seem to be on anyones mind.
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I started rearranging the road and trees to be an old dirt path with prim trees. Jack Pitts helped me find some better looking trees from “Heart”. The sims were just full of different trees. Jack was interested in renting land, but was waiting until next week for his pay check. I offered him a free week and setup an Apez Rent box for him. The rent here works out to roughly 6300 per week. I have it based on US currency, so the L$ price may change a little each week depending how the currency exchange is doing. He has already setup a nice wood and stone house on the south east part of the sim.
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I wasn’t too happy with how the effects of full bright clashed with shiny objects. I wanted the top part of my lamp to be very shiny except where the glass was located. For that part, I wanted it to be full bright, glowing, and emitting light. With regular 3D games, an object can have several textures assigned to take care of reflection, bump mapping, shiny parts, glowing parts, transparency, and more. In Second Life, transparency voids shiny effects and shiny kills full-bright. To get around this, I had to create an extra prim for a total of 4 prims in my street lights. Perhaps tomorrow I’ll get around to the actual texturing.
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I finished making the scupties that I needed for my street lamp using Rokuro. An overly complex object for prims takes only 3 sculpties to build. The next step is to work on the texturing to give the lamp a lot of personality. I was already able to use AvPainter to help identify the location of where to map my textures. If everything turns out well, I’ll have a really classy light to give Woodbridge a lot of ambience with only a few prims.
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