Will Wright's Spore

Jon Hylands jon at huv.com
Thu Mar 17 19:25:43 UTC 2005


On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 10:12:31 -0800, Darius <squeakuser at inglang.com> wrote:

> I'm sure others can think of more advantages and disadvantages.

You guys should check out SecondLife (http://www.secondlife.com) for an
already working version of something like this. Spore seems from the
description to be a lot more in depth in some areas, but then again
SecondLife has been around for a couple years, and has 15,000+ users.

SecondLife is masterminded by the guy who brought streaming video to Real
back in the mid 90's. The content creation tools are incredible, and
include not only a powerful CAD modeler in-world, but an interpreted
scripting language that looks a lot like embedded C. You can also upload
custom animations for avatars authored using Poser, and custom textures
using anything you like.

http://www.huv.com/Car-1_004.jpg is an example of the first thing I've
created in-world using the tools available. And yes, the car is scripted,
and you can drive it around.

Pretty much all the content in SecondLife is end-user created. Note that
SecondLife is restricted to people 18+, and as such some of the content (in
mature areas) is very explicit.

Later,
Jon

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