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Yumi Murakami
DoIt!AttachTheEarOfACat!
Join date: 27 Sep 2005
Posts: 6,860
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08-04-2008 09:50
www.roblox.com
A building based world. It's aimed at kids (so it uses gaming rather than sex as its social glue), but it has some nice features, including shadows and - apparantly - LUA scripting. Oh, and every player gets an island for free.  On the other hand, the avatars are awful  |
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Amaranthim Talon
Voyager, Seeker, Curious
Join date: 14 Nov 2006
Posts: 12,032
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08-04-2008 09:52
My kid loves this! Plays it nonstop- and the brat doesn't fall down the stairs like i do in sl!
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Nimue Jewell
Unabashedly Leggy
Join date: 20 Mar 2007
Posts: 1,745
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08-04-2008 10:31
My oldest is ADDICTED to this thing. He even has some little creations for sale.
(There are 2 in world currencies. Every one gets a few "tickets" for every day they log in, and if people visit their build. If you upgrade to a paid membership you also get a stipend in the second currency "Robux" and you can list your creations for sale.) _____________________
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Yumi Murakami
DoIt!AttachTheEarOfACat!
Join date: 27 Sep 2005
Posts: 6,860
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08-04-2008 10:55
Well, they do score some points for having an even worse attitude to reliability than SL:
Yes, Roblox will crash. When working in Roblox Studio, and you are going to ungroup an object, in the 'Explorer' Menu, make sure that the object you're about to ungroup is the only highlighted object. If not, and you ungroup, Roblox Studio will crash. Also, Roblox Studio will crash if you cut Workspace, put Workspace into Lighting, or any other place for that matter, try to ungroup Workspace, or basically anything else that has to do with Workspace. My advice, don't mess with Workspace unless you know what you're doing. Sometimes, the Studio will just crash on its own. It doesn't have anything to do with your computer, so don't worry. Just restart Studio, and try again. It even has almost exactly the same crash report dialog as SL... It actually seems like quite a neat system - in fact it's almost a shame it's been focused on kids so heavily. |
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Russ Kanno
Neko boy
Join date: 12 Nov 2006
Posts: 38
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08-04-2008 12:52
I have a friend who programs in LUA for fun, and he has a precociously hyper-intelligent 7-year old child. They will both LOVE this.
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Distilled1 Rush
written in the Pixles
Join date: 29 Jul 2006
Posts: 504
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08-04-2008 13:25
MY son loves it! (13) my friends son (5) plays it from wake up until bed! its insane and he can script, build do things I can't figure out with my son LOL
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Conifer Dada
Hiya m'dooks!
Join date: 6 Oct 2006
Posts: 3,716
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08-04-2008 13:32
It looks quite fun but apart from the benefit of shadows it doesn't look as sophisticated as SL's visual environment. When we get our dynamic shadows, SL will become a more serious tool for architectural simulation.
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