Well, Second Life is not really a Massively Multiplayer
Online Role Playing Game (i.e., MMORPG), and it's not
even a Massively Multiplayer Online Game (i.e. MMOG).
So what's the best term or acronym to describe SL?
"Online world"? "3D persistent world"? I'm not sure these
come trippingly off the tongue. In trying to come up with a
more evocative acronym for my SXSW talk, I called Second
LIfe a MMOCA-- for Massively Multiplayer Online Creative
Agora. On the plus side, that emphasizes the building/
scripting aspects of SL, and unlike MMORPG, it's
pronouncable. ("Mocha"-- you know, like the frothy,
chocolatey coffee drink! Yum!)
On the down side, we don't really have "players", let alone
multiplayers-- we have residents. So that's not perfect
either, I guess. But will it do, in a pinch?
Anyway, gimme your suggestions, for publication in NWN!
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Hamlet Linden
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04-05-2004 16:05
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Moleculor Satyr
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04-05-2004 16:08
Metaverse. Duh.
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Kei Mars
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What about calling it...
04-05-2004 16:11
"This Thing of Ours"?
That has a certain ring to it.. KM xxxxx Mars Japanese Gardens, Albion (99,131) |
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Hamlet Linden
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04-05-2004 16:16
Unfortunately, it's also a euphemism for the Mafia!
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Cubey Terra
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04-05-2004 16:34
I detest acronyms. I think "metaverse" is a fine category for this type of ga-- er... online environment.
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Teeny Leviathan
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04-05-2004 16:35
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Cybin Monde
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why it's...
04-05-2004 18:14
Second Life!
but what is it? hmm.. i tend to like Metaverse.. but i think it needs a version.. or maybe Betaverse? a test for a future Metaverse that's even more integrated.. MMUDOW? M assively M ultiplayer U ser D efined O nline W orld ..any other ideas? _____________________
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Moleculor Satyr
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04-05-2004 20:06
MUX! Multi User eXperience!
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04-05-2004 20:10
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04-05-2004 21:22
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Darque Grimm
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04-05-2004 23:39
M assively M ultiplayer M ailable W orld
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Kei Mars
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04-06-2004 00:25
Originally posted by Hamlet Linden Unfortunately, it's also a euphemism for the Mafia! OK, how about "This Old Thing of Ours"? TOTO. Toto! Toto! There's no place like home! There's no place like home! This isn't Kansas any more... I'll get my coat.... KM xxxxx Mars Japanese Gardens, Albion (99,131) |
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Carnildo Greenacre
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04-06-2004 00:35
I usually describe it as an "MMOE" -- Massively Multiplayer Online Environment.
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Devlin Gallant
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What do we call This Thing Of Ours?
04-06-2004 01:24
Well, I call mine (blush) a peepee.
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Selador Cellardoor
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04-06-2004 03:33
I've always used 'virtual world'.
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Jack Orlowski
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04-06-2004 04:58
I personally use MMOC when i describe SL to my friends. Massivly Multi-user Online Community
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Pendari Lorentz
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04-06-2004 07:46
Originally posted by Selador Cellardoor I've always used 'virtual world'. This is how I have started refering to Second Life also when talking to others. It truely is its own world, and that world just happens to be virtual. I'm also met with less blank stares and confused looks when I use this phrase. It seem to just click in their head what I mean.  _____________________
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Pituca FairChang
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04-06-2004 08:08
I like MMOCA. I have used that since I first heard Hamlet use it.
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04-06-2004 14:00
Multiuser shared digital communication, interaction, and creation framework.
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Rathe Underthorn
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04-06-2004 15:32
While I idolize the term 'metaverse' I could see many reasons why not to use it. Is SL truely a metaverse anyways? Or more so, approaching a metaverse but hindered by todays technological limitations? Should metaverse be reserved for the real thing? Will we muddy the definiation of it by todays standards?
That aside, I'm going to pull one from the vault and propose 'GNORK'. This is a term several peers and I used many years ago to referer to the exact collection of concepts behind SL and SL-like envrioments. My memory is fuzzy, but I beleive it stood for something along the lines of Graphical Nexus of Ontological Rhetoric and 'K'reativity. |
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04-06-2004 15:57
Originally posted by Pendari Lorentz This is how I have started refering to Second Life also when talking to others. It truely is its own world, and that world just happens to be virtual. I'm also met with less blank stares and confused looks when I use this phrase. It seem to just click in their head what I mean. Gotta add my vote for simply "virtual world." Albeit, one that is definitely headed in the direction of eventually becoming a "Metaverse." Seems to click with people unfamiliar with SL. And the whole "massively multiplayer" thing always makes me think of distinct *games* like EverQuest.....which SL is definitely *not*. _____________________
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Jellin Pico
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04-06-2004 16:09
Originally posted by Teeny Leviathan Digital Crack Everquest already took that one |
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Moleculor Satyr
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04-06-2004 16:30
Everquest is boring though.
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Rathe Underthorn
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04-06-2004 16:33
"virtual world" is about as dead as VRML.
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Teeny Leviathan
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04-06-2004 16:47
Originally posted by Jellin Pico Everquest already took that one Everquest is "Evvercrack". Not the same. |