Weekend Whimsy
1. Second Life: Text-Based Badminton (Part 1)
2. Chakryn Forest
3. open simulator project: my stand alone sim
Australian classification of MMOGs
Massively’s Tateru Nino has written a fascinating piece on the issue of games classification in Australia. Specifically, she’s confirmed with the Federal Attorney General’s Department that:
“Where a sale is within the jurisdiction of the relevant State or Territory legislation,” Heffernan informed us, “it is a criminal offence under those laws to sell unclassified computer [...]
Linden Lab gain two more executives
Read all about it here in CEO Mark Kingdon’s post, but the upshot is that Linden Lab have gained a VP of Strategy and Emerging Business (Judy Wade) and a VP of Core Development (Brian Michon).
Both positions aren’t unusual in a growing company. Both will be tested in coming months in an environment [...]
The Watch – virtual worlds in the news
1. VentureBeat (USA) – iMafia, a social game for iPhone with new virtual goods model. “Social games have taken off on networks like Facebook, and now mobile platforms like the iPhone. One of the newest examples is the iMafia game from PlayMesh, which has found a clever way to integrate virtual goods — a challenge [...]
Announcing: Avatar Dog t-shirts
I’m really thrilled to announce we’ve got some t-shirts for sale. The primary purpose of the t-shirts is to raise money for Kiva, our charity of choice. Kiva provide funds to small businesses in developing countries and to date well over 57 million dollars have been lent, with over 97% of that repaid so that [...]
Weekend Whimsy
1. Bailamo
(This is a promo for an online dating beach world – thought it appropriate given it’s middle of summer and a long weekend)
2. Comet Morigi – the sunken museum
3. Big Blue Dress Widescreen
