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The Archives
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06.22.09Brooklyn Is Watching Best of Contest: Virtual World ArtQuick Link: Bettina Tizzy has a report on Brooklyn Is Watching, the in-world/out-world art project that occurs simultaneously in SL and in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. BIW, which has just passed its first-year milestone, has announced the Best of BIW 1, a two-month long festival spanning part of three sims and the space at the Jack The Pelican Presents gallery, as well as artist talks, panel discussions, and some art shows. Continue Reading...
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05.05.09Quick Hit: Dynamic Shadows in Second LifeBy way of Bettina Tizzy at NPIRL, a video by Lordfly Digeridoo of dynamic shadows in Second Life: Now - I have to say, this stuff is gorgeous. My problem is....and I have no idea why, I can never get shadows to work. Dynamic shadows are built into the Second Life architecture and are hidden away in the viewer code, they're just not active. I had found a compiled version of the client with shadows activated some time ago, installed it....but nothing. And I'm running a high end machine that was built to render. Ah well - if you can get it ...
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04.15.09Inside Blue Mars: Virtual World Promising Rich Content Creation OpportunitiesGoddess of the Grid Bettina Tizzy has a lengthy interview with Jim Sink of Avatar Reality on the forthcoming Blue Mars virtual world. Or worlds, if I'm going to go by my discussions with Raph Koster, because each world will be self-contained with its own rules and execution of code (LUA and a casual games API), joined together by a common portal and cross-world chat. Jim has encouraging things to say about the content development model, although it also sounds like there are some policy issues they haven't entirely worked out yet: adult-oriented content and sex, and the use of alts ...
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04.18.08The Garden of NPIRL Delights: Completion, May 14, Tear Down June 23As usual, Bettina inspires over at Not Possible In Real Life, and this time has a canvas 4 sims wide. Donated by Rezzable, Bettina is sending the call out to her NPIRLers and others to join together into one creative force. The idea behind the Garden of NPIRL Delights is a build festival, where the takeoff point is Hieronymus Bosch's visions of humanity. Bettina and Rezzable want users to create their own version of Bosch's Garden in a communal space in SL, using four sims to illustrate the Underworld, Earth and Paradise: "If you were to journey into heaven or hell, ...
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