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Chip Midnight
ate my baby!
Join date: 1 May 2003
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01-08-2008 09:50
59th Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards (announced at CES)
The award for outstanding achievement in advanced media technology for best use of commercial advertising on stand-alone broadband devices (personal computers): The L Word in Second Life - Showtime Networks/Electric Sheep Company The awards for user generated content - game modification: Pinball Construction - Electronic Arts Quake - Id Software Second Life - Linden Lab Pretty cool  _____________________
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Meade Paravane
Hedgehog
Join date: 21 Nov 2006
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01-08-2008 09:55
/me claps!!
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Lowen Raymaker
Registered User
Join date: 21 Apr 2007
Posts: 185
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01-08-2008 10:25
Wow!
Congratulations Electric Sheep Company and Linden Labs! |
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Nika Talaj
now you see her ...
Join date: 2 Jan 2007
Posts: 5,449
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01-08-2008 10:26
WOOT! wtg, sl & sheep!
now, if i only had cable ... |
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Dnali Anabuki
Still Crazy
Join date: 17 Oct 2006
Posts: 1,633
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01-08-2008 10:47
This has made me very very happy. Thanks so much for letting us know!!
Could you post a link so I can find out more? |
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Meade Paravane
Hedgehog
Join date: 21 Nov 2006
Posts: 4,845
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01-08-2008 10:50
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Tired of shouting clubs and lucky chairs? Vote for llParcelSay!!!
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Kira Cuddihy
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Join date: 29 Nov 2006
Posts: 1,375
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01-08-2008 10:51
Maybe Electric Sheep will be hiring now, and some very nice guy in the forums will get his job back. There is usually a nice influx of money when companies receive an award like that. One can only hope
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Snowman Jiminy
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Join date: 23 Dec 2007
Posts: 424
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01-08-2008 12:28
Maybe Electric Sheep will be hiring now, and some very nice guy in the forums will get his job back. There is usually a nice influx of money when companies receive an award like that. One can only hope Seconded ! _____________________
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Ricardo Harris
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Join date: 1 Apr 2006
Posts: 1,944
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01-08-2008 17:40
Was that win for buggiest game around?
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Gordon Wendt
404 - User not found
Join date: 10 May 2006
Posts: 1,024
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01-08-2008 17:42
I bet they won it before they killed their entire economy in one fell swoop.
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Innes McLeod
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Join date: 8 Oct 2006
Posts: 190
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01-08-2008 18:51
The awards for user generated content - game modification: Pinball Construction - Electronic Arts Quake - Id Software Second Life - Linden Lab User generated content... doesn't that mean that WE won the Emmy, not Linden Lab???  |
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Haroldthe Burrel
Registered User
Join date: 24 Apr 2006
Posts: 56
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01-08-2008 19:48
Was that win for buggiest game around? Nope, best beta software you have to pay to use. HtB |
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Drivin Sideways
100% recycled pixels
Join date: 30 Oct 2007
Posts: 502
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01-08-2008 20:34
User generated content... doesn't that mean that WE won the Emmy, not Linden Lab??? I think Innes is correct. _____________________
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Okiphia Anatine
Okiphia Rayna
Join date: 22 Nov 2007
Posts: 454
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01-08-2008 20:41
Nope, best beta software you have to pay to use. HtB ...anything that is ever updated could be beta by that ruling _____________________
In-world, I am Okiphia Rayna. This account is an alt, and is the only account I currently have with payment info on-file due to some account cracking that took place. This is a security measure at present, and I may return to the forums as Okiphia Rayna at a later date.
If you need to reach me, IM Okiphia Rayna, not Okiphia Anatine |
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Yumi Murakami
DoIt!AttachTheEarOfACat!
Join date: 27 Sep 2005
Posts: 6,860
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01-08-2008 21:10
I'm really confused..
"Pinball Construction by Electronic Arts?" I did a search for this, and found a game called "Pinball Construction Set" which came out in 1983 (for DOS PC and Apple 2)! What timeframe were they looking at for the award? What was it based on? |
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Tod69 Talamasca
The Human Tripod ;)
Join date: 20 Sep 2005
Posts: 4,107
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01-09-2008 00:09
I'm really confused.. "Pinball Construction by Electronic Arts?" I did a search for this, and found a game called "Pinball Construction Set" which came out in 1983 (for DOS PC and Apple 2)! What timeframe were they looking at for the award? What was it based on? THAT game?? OMG!! I SO F**KING LOVED IT!!! Wish they'd make a new version!!!! I think mine was on C64? _____________________
really pissy & mean right now and NOT happy with Life.
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Tegg Bode
FrootLoop Roo Overlord
Join date: 12 Jan 2007
Posts: 5,707
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01-09-2008 02:42
Nope, best beta software you have to pay to use.HtB Hmm sorry it would be best beta you can bot farm for free. Only a minority actually pay to play. _____________________
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Usagi Musashi
UM ™®
Join date: 24 Oct 2004
Posts: 6,083
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01-09-2008 02:52
claps once and says..............
 who? what................oh well anyone for pay ads anyone totally tacky .................An true to how things go these dyas on sl..........everything is a mind screw |
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Claire Silverspar
Pokes Badgers With Spoons
Join date: 31 Oct 2007
Posts: 5,375
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01-09-2008 04:06
/me applaudes all the residents for making the content which gave SL a chance to win the award
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 I'll miss this damn place.I'll be over at SCII after the end has come. |
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Bloodsong Termagant
Manic Artist
Join date: 22 Jan 2007
Posts: 615
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01-09-2008 07:24
omg, pinball construction is BACK!?!?!?
no??? yes??? ::hyperventilates:: truly the most awesome app ever created. i got in a commie magazine with my pinball designs. ::coughs embarassedly:: um, anyhow... i tried visual pinball, but it was just too tough. i DID see a commodore site where a company was actually bringing back commie games. however, the problem with PCS, as i understand it... is that bill budge wrote his own os to run the thing on, and so nobody can re-build it or re-release it or whatever, because... i dunno, its locked up tight inside his brain or something. :/ yeah, so if its user-created content... dang, nwn aint on there? that was one helluva toolset. |
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Chip Midnight
ate my baby!
Join date: 1 May 2003
Posts: 10,231
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01-09-2008 08:01
The tech and engineering Emmys are retrospective and they honor things from years past as well as current. The Atari Lynx also won an award this year (first handheld with a color LCD screen). So no new Pinball Construction Set. And the user created content award would be for enabling it, not for the content itself. I think it's really great to see ESC get a nod. They've been doing some really great work with things like The L Word, I Am Legend, and Beowulf. HBO, which bought Douglas Gayeton's machinima series last year had said they intend to submit it for consideration for an Academy Award. I think it's very cool to see this new medium starting to make some waves.
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Yumi Murakami
DoIt!AttachTheEarOfACat!
Join date: 27 Sep 2005
Posts: 6,860
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01-09-2008 08:20
Aha. According to Wikipedia, Pinball Construction Set started it all.. it was the first ever game to allow user generated content. (And was, apparently, only 33k big...) That would explain the award!
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