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DragonChiq Thereian

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08-03-2006 23:24

I was looking for some new MMOs and I came across a game engine that is kindasorta like SL! It's not available to download yet but it will be supossedly for everyone: http://www.toi3d.com/ Check it out!

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Pham Neutra

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08-04-2006 01:15

"kindasorta lika" is a term, that's ... eeehm ... a little bit ... eeehm ... vague, DragonChiq.

If you look around on the web, you will find that there really is an abundance of toolboxes and platforms for the creation of 3D online games these days. Some are very professionally done and carry huge licence stickers. Others are private or open source projects which you can get more or less "for free".

None of them is "like" SL or could be real competition for SL to date. That's because, they are all for building "games" and SL is not a game. No I don't want to fuel the "SL is/is not a game debate" here. What I mean is, that all these platforms separate strictly between a game creator and a player. Creators design, build and script games, players use them. That is fine and a perfect solution for many cases but it is not like SL at all.

So far, there is no platform or engine or toolbox out there that would allow me to start building the Web.3D - except Second Life. What makes SL especially suited as (at least one) foundation for the Web.3D - and what makes SL so very much fun for me - is the fact, that any user can change this world, add to it, be part of the pantheon of gods that creates it. This is the true fuel behind SLs growth - as it is the fuel behind the most successful web 2.0 projects. Get the huge community of users to create something and not a small team of experts. 99.9% of those creations might be crap - but 0.1% are truely beautiful, original, awesome etc. and in sum this will be much more than any team of professional designers can do.

As long as a new platform does not offer the casual user the ability, to create buildings, change the landscape, create vehicles and script his creations so they behave in a way that no "game designer" has ever foreseen it - so long it is just yet another 3D game toolbox, engine, ... whatever.

Ghoti Nyak

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08-04-2006 05:43

Looks like it hasa nice terrain editor.

-Ghoti

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08-04-2006 06:19

Too bad we cant just buy something like those editors as
plug ins for our clients.

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Billybob Goodliffe

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08-04-2006 06:25

I so want the land editor from Red Alert for SL, being able to add water with a paint roller. GOT TO LOVE IT!!!!

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Found a neat Toi
DragonChiq Thereian Registered User Join date: 4 Jun 2004 Posts: 102	08-03-2006 23:24 I was looking for some new MMOs and I came across a game engine that is kindasorta like SL! It's not available to download yet but it will be supossedly for everyone: http://www.toi3d.com/ Check it out! _____________________ From: pandastrong Fairplay "OK, I admit it, you got me... " ~ Jesus Christ, after appearing on "Punk'd". Gaia Online anime roleplaying community
Pham Neutra Registered User Join date: 25 Jan 2005 Posts: 478	08-04-2006 01:15 "kindasorta lika" is a term, that's ... eeehm ... a little bit ... eeehm ... vague, DragonChiq. If you look around on the web, you will find that there really is an abundance of toolboxes and platforms for the creation of 3D online games these days. Some are very professionally done and carry huge licence stickers. Others are private or open source projects which you can get more or less "for free". None of them is "like" SL or could be real competition for SL to date. That's because, they are all for building "games" and SL is not a game. No I don't want to fuel the "SL is/is not a game debate" here. What I mean is, that all these platforms separate strictly between a game creator and a player. Creators design, build and script games, players use them. That is fine and a perfect solution for many cases but it is not like SL at all. So far, there is no platform or engine or toolbox out there that would allow me to start building the Web.3D - except Second Life. What makes SL especially suited as (at least one) foundation for the Web.3D - and what makes SL so very much fun for me - is the fact, that any user can change this world, add to it, be part of the pantheon of gods that creates it. This is the true fuel behind SLs growth - as it is the fuel behind the most successful web 2.0 projects. Get the huge community of users to create something and not a small team of experts. 99.9% of those creations might be crap - but 0.1% are truely beautiful, original, awesome etc. and in sum this will be much more than any team of professional designers can do. As long as a new platform does not offer the casual user the ability, to create buildings, change the landscape, create vehicles and script his creations so they behave in a way that no "game designer" has ever foreseen it - so long it is just yet another 3D game toolbox, engine, ... whatever.
Ghoti Nyak καλλιστι Join date: 7 Aug 2004 Posts: 2,078	08-04-2006 05:43 Looks like it hasa nice terrain editor. -Ghoti _____________________ "Sometimes I believe that this less material life is our truer life, and that our vain presence on the terraqueous globe is itself the secondary or merely virtual phenomenon." ~ H.P. Lovecraft
Infiniview Merit The 100 Trillionth Cell Join date: 27 Apr 2006 Posts: 845	08-04-2006 06:19 Too bad we cant just buy something like those editors as plug ins for our clients. _____________________ http://slurl.com/secondlife/puea/126/10/60/
Billybob Goodliffe NINJA WIZARDS! Join date: 22 Dec 2005 Posts: 4,036	08-04-2006 06:25 I so want the land editor from Red Alert for SL, being able to add water with a paint roller. GOT TO LOVE IT!!!! _____________________ If life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade and try and find someone who's life has given them vodka and have a party! From: Corvus Drake I asked God directly, and he says you're a douchebag. Commander of the Militant Wing of the Salvation Army http://e-pec.info/forum/blog/billybob_goodliffe

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