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So what have I been up to in Second Life?

Now I’m hosting SLingo on a regular basis, I have a decent income. This has allowed me to get my own place. A friend of mine, Amber, spent Saturday buying and setting up furniture in a home she shares with a friend of hers. She put a double bed upstairs with a couple of leather chairs and a rug along with lamps and a picture. I hung around there for the evening chatting to her and resting on the lounge suite she installed downstairs. She had a photo on her PCs desktop of a creek in the forest she took a photo of some time ago and wanted it in-game so I got her to email it to me and I created a picture frame with the photo inside, which she hung on the wall.

This got me thinking and I decided to find my own place to live, so I spent several hours visiting areas to find low-rent accommodation and trying to chat to people to find somewhere to rent off them. I talked to one girl whom had places but then she got very busy and stopped talking so I posted a request on the forum and someone answered me in-game. I visited a few places he had and finally settled on a bungalow in the Tiki area owned by the Cub Water Club. It’s L$100 per week with up to 100 prims (3d objects) allowable. That’s enough to get me started. I was going to purchase some furniture but decided to make my own. I started off trying to create a lounge but could not get it right and in the end turned it into a single padded chair I called the "Industrial Chair" as it has what looks like metal pipes cut in half for the feet and backrest. You can check it out at the usual place: http://www.ZigZagSoft.com/

I also created a TV out of the demo textures you can get and a cube and placed that on a table I had which I edited to remove the red and white checkered tablecloth and changed the legs from wood to black metal and changed the tabletop from wood to glass. It looks quite nice. I also created a rug with a rug texture and a cube prim squashed and stretched out. I made a light out of a half-sphere prim and stuck it in the roof. It doesn’t seem to give off a lot of light tho. So, I’ve gone back to doing some more design stuff. I might keep making some furniture in the future and put it all together as a suite to sell via a vendor. Maybe a chair, lounge, lamp, rug, tables all together in one package and make them copyable so the buyers can make two chairs with a couple of lamps and a couple of tables as they require. I think a package of lounge objects is more likely to sell than single items. Especially if they all match nicely.

I started working on an idea for a new game for Second Life. I can’t talk too much about it as I don’t want my idea stolen But it should be a nice change from SLingo and TRingo for players. It’s not usually a multiplayer game, but I’ve changed some rules and added extra stuff to make it more fun and playable. I created some test cards to try out the game on paper first with Bec and she had a quick go last Friday night. It’s not really her cup of tea, but it showed the game could work at any rate. How much fun it will be will depend on the players I guess. Particularly if they are playing against each other to become the #1 winner and take out the ‘pot’ of money as donated by players. I will have to see how much SLingo and TRingo games sell for since the creator doesn’t make royalties from the game, only the initial sale.

While looking for places to stay, I came across a land that’s made cartoon-like. It even has chupachups for trees! It looked quite cute. Another place I went to had a Time Machine and I travelled back in time and saw a Tyrannosaurus Rex coming at me before being transported to Pompeii when Mt Vesuvius was erupting! Then it was back to the current time. It was a fun ride which I probably would never have known about had I not just gone looking around.

Since I had been flying all over the place to check out potential places to live, I found it very slow and cumbersome. Particulary when you wanted to cover vast distances. I popped onto the forum to see if anyone had created a jet backpack to fly me around faster. I checked out one going for L$200 but someone on the forum mentioned checking out Cubey Terra’s Aerodrome. I teleported over there and flew to the Aerodrome trying to find where the jetpacks were on sale but found nothing. Shortly afterwards a person parachuted down into the building and had an avatar in the shape of a fox. I asked him if he had seen any jetpacks around and he said "Hmm. Jetpacks. I think I have one in my inventory". So I asked him how much it’d be and he gave it to me for free!!!! I strapped it on and went flying. MAN! Does it go!! I kept crashing into mountains and things because I was going so fast heheh. Well. That’s all I was after, so I thanked him and headed back home to do some more work on my place.

I’ll have to upload some photos of my Bungalow some time in the future. Keep an eye on ZigZagSoft.com for more designs from me.

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