Lords and Peasants

As does mine, Enabran. Really, I wouldn't continue on down this road, if I were you.

Because I'm not in this for the charity of it. Not only do I have to love doing whatever I choose to do, but it also has to pay off for me.

I would say that about any activity in ANY game/platform/okra.

As it is, I am doing something that is highly enjoyable and does pay off for me, and provides as much satisfaction in serving people as did running the game shows. (Albeit a different kind of satisfaction; there's no "on stage" to building houses.)

When I talk about giving a needed boost to entertainment/events, I'm not talking out of personal need. I'm happy doing what I am doing.

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ok so fight the fight verbally 4 those that need but when it comes 2 getting involved, sit back n watch some1 else do it? i'm starting 2 c y u c SL as a game

Enabran, I'm afraid your right. I can envision many "Real world" and "The apprentice" spin-offs that would be fairly interactive, could even have a "vote for which ending you want to see to this week's episode" thing, but yes, making it interactive much beyond that sort of thing... I definitely am all for post production and polishing it, I think everyone's jaw dropped when LL wanted us to stream hours of live content daily. I think it has the potential to be more than just marketing SL to external users, but then again I was pretty sure I'd see a lot more complete and polished machinima than I have in the last year. (No offense to billy Madison's wonderful tribute to Jeska Linden)

Enabran, I'm afraid your right. I can envision many "Real world" and "The apprentice" spin-offs that would be fairly interactive, could even have a "vote for which ending you want to see to this week's episode" thing, but yes, making it interactive much beyond that sort of thing... I definitely am all for post production and polishing it, I think everyone's jaw dropped when LL wanted us to stream hours of live content daily. I think it has the potential to be more than just marketing SL to external users, but then again I was pretty sure I'd see a lot more complete and polished machinima than I have in the last year. (No offense to billy Madison's wonderful tribute to Jeska Linden)

Because I'm not in this for the charity of it. Not only do I have to love doing whatever I choose to do, but it also has to pay off for me.

Is it weird to get an IM calling for backup?

Yeah, I think that the "reality format" might lend itself well to SL. All you need is a basic structure. No detailed scripts, that kind of thing. Post is probably harder for reality shows because I'd imagine you'd have a lot more footage to edit.

Still, that'd be the way to do it. But another complication is streaming bandwidth! It ain't cheap! I don't know how you would recover those costs unless you had some obscene streaming solution. Hey there, Linden Lab!

Yes, and I've said many times before, even if there was no money involved and I had a platform to build whatever I wanted, I'd be there. The only things that have sold for me and been successful have been things I have enjoyed making and been passionate about. The fact that money is involved is the icing on the cake. You can't go into "There" or any other platform I've seen and have 1/10th the creative freedom you do in SL, IMO.

Yeah, I think that the "reality format" might lend itself well to SL. All you need is a basic structure. No detailed scripts, that kind of thing. Post is probably harder for reality shows because I'd imagine you'd have a lot more footage to edit.

Still, that'd be the way to do it. But another complication is streaming bandwidth! It ain't cheap! I don't know how you would recover those costs unless you had some obscene streaming solution. Hey there, Linden Lab!

P.S. I wasn't envisioning any editing needed in my show. I was planning to do it live.

The trouble with SL is that live is boring unless you pipe in voice. Watching tiny action figures who have tiny text bubbles gets old after about 90 seconds. To keep it interesting you need to compensate somehow.

I'm also not that impressed with SL's stability for a live-format show. At least with editing in your workfly you can cut out all those nasty crashes.

I was just getting good at editing video and mixing in sounds too...

Hey, what are you cutting your video with?

Tip jars. Tip jars worked very well during the time I was in TSO..

heh. Use Vegas. (Formerly Sonic Foundry, now Sony). I wrote a good part of it.

One thing that makes SL pretty neat is that you can green screen effortlessly. So if the often-static backdrops of SL aren't letting your creative juices flow, you can key in some other backdrop that's more lively.

Hey, what are you cutting your video with?

Tip jars. Tip jars worked very well during the time I was in TSO. I was a roomie at the #1 Off-beat category home on Blazing Falls (it was for some time at any rate). We raked it in.

In other words, people payed to come to our place, and when we held contests and events, people payed even more.

So, netizens will pay for entertainment, if it's well thought out and compelling enough.

Just the built-in "Movie Maker" with XP. FRAPS to rip the video out. And yah, the live sound is definitely paramount, even if you use gigantic font and can read it, still... (Edit : I'll have to look for Vegas, sounds cool Michi)

Ah, you poor Windows bastards. Editing video on Windows is like making love through several layers of rubber rain coat. (yeah, yeah, Avid is for bitches. FCP forevar)

Still, if you really want to up your style, check out Adobe After Effects. I've been diddling with it for years, and it's really a lot of fun. Basically Photoshop with keyframes. Use it for motion graphics or even special effects.

(tangent: It's really very dangerous for your producitivity to get involved with video on the desktop at this point. It's gotten so easy and so cheap and the results can look really amazing. It can be a wild time suck, but damn, it's a whole lot of fun)

Not all of my houses are "little."

But... but Michi. It should be easier. Linden Lab should make it easier. And more fun.

And they should make it better, too.

So people will have more fun.

They need to improve it.

By making it more fun.

And easier.

It'll be fun.

To me.

To me.

Very good point, the Primtionary events I went to had tipjars, and I've given a couple DJ's tips for playing a bunch of songs that flowed really well.