What in-progress building projects are you excited about? Lets Share.

I guess many of us have projects we are working on in various stages of near or partial completion. Some will make it through into a product, some will remain our own private playthings, some even fall at the final fence, so that they never quite work.

I expect, like me, you keep your cards pretty close to your chests, for fear of others stealing your ideas before you have even completed them yourselves.

But wouldn't it be fascinating if we could put these worries aside, and risk giving each other a glimpse of the exciting things we are working towards?

I have decided to bite the bullet, and go first. In the next posting is my list of almost finished pet projects, which you may or may not see appearing in a shop near you soon, depending on how industrious I feel.

My hope is that others will follow my example, and we can get a really lively and exciting thread under way.

I'm normally a reticent person, who just beavers away quietly on her own on her own little plot, but I thought the time had come to stick my head out of my shell, and do a bit of sharing.

SPOILER or Warning - one or two of them are a little bit naughty. Don't read if you are easily offended. Hope the moderator doesn't mind.

So here goes anyway:

ISS-1
The incredible sim shrinker. Greatly in demand from your neighbours, because as it shrinks your sim, your server resources get progressively (and permanently) reallocated to the adjacent ones to north and east.

Dopit Dopit
the intelligent homing p*nis that seeks out and "sees to" your own (or at least your avi's) every orifice. Ideal for those who wish to experience cybersex, but haven't got the gall to suggest it to anything truly animate. I doubt theyll bother more than once, but I won't countenance refunds. a sale is a sale.

Crunch4
The cannibalistic avi-eating necklace that totally consumes its wearer, slowly, a little more each time hi (sic) logs on. Initial size reduction is by a sort of sucking action, causing gradual overall minimissimalization (sick), which for some while, is not noticed. Once the process starts to accelerate, it progresses by leaps and bounds, and ends in 4 large crunches, in the last of which the device consumes itself, and morphs into a complimentary "Double Invisiprim" (see below), which is of course by this time not much use to you. Need I explain why? Obviously some software modules are shared with the ISS and Double Invisiprim.

Whoops!
The amazing self-replicating anim-fungus that seeks out all your sex anim balls and coats them with a pink slime so slippery you keep falling off at critical moments. The first of an intended long line of self-replicating pseudo-biological entities. Probably hopes to reduce reproduction of other species (including avis), so as to get the field to itself. It seems to have a fundamental misunderstanding.

The V.S.O.-Splatt
which crashes the computer of your virtual g/f (or b/f) every time you log on, and disables it for two hours so that you can finally get something made, without being pestered for completely pointless non-arousing pseudo-erotic animated activities (beware of "Whoops" above). Or even worse, a pathetic attempt at an intelligent conversation. Consisting mostly (if its a she) of a long complaint at some slight acquaintance's heinous crime in not admiring with sufficient fervor some new boots she had just bought. To be inevitably followed by her asking if you'd like to see them too. As if . Or of course the equally nauseous male equivalent which it would need a girl to describe. (ooh heck - forgot - am I female myself at present, or what ?) Nothing to do with Voluntary Service Overseas. It stands for "Virtual Special Other". SO is half-retired feminist jargon for the one you....errr.... pleasure.

The Double Invisiprim
which conceals the fact that its concealing things so successfully that you don't even need to rezz it. In fact even if you do, there is no known test to determine whether there is anything there or not. Some people suspect there isn't. With a proposed selling price of L$2000, I think I'd better not comment.

The Ultimate Lagometer
a sophisticated scripted object designed to help you locate the sources of lag in your sim. Repeats in an endless parrot-like loop on the audio channel "too many scripts...too many scripts" even if placed in a brand new sim without a single script. This is the default behaviour when avis are present. When the conditions are favourable, which means no avi within 1000m, it automatically enters "Supersleuth" mode . In this mode it briefly displays on screen a detailed and highly explanatory breakdown of every source of lag, its precise location, the exact server, link, and client resources it is consuming. This display also includes a ranked list of actions to be taken to improve the situation, with predicted performance improvements. Supersleuth mode involves so much processing and analysis that unfortunately there seems no foreseeable prospect of reducing the 1000m operational limit.

Bargainhound 4
Place this in the middle of a plot of land, and it will tell you the selling status. A green light will come on if you can actually click on this land and own it. Other lights indicate whether a friendly joker set a sale price of 9999999999999 lindens just for the pleasure of being visited by those who hunt land with the map, or whether this is special land surrounded on three sides by impenetrable (no server) water blocks, so that the circuitous route from the nearest Telehub involves doubling back for long distances. But the highlight of version 4 is news of a new feature, which we suspect has already leaked. Sometimes you see land advertised as for sale, but when you get there you find it isn't. If this particular plot is only playing a shy game of pretence by offering you the opportunity to commune with a website full of exhortations to trust, obey (and pay) big brother, then this is indicated by a bright pool of yellow liquid which spreads slowly across the plot from beneath your device.

TransatPantica 3
This is my only article of clothing. It senses the nationality of the wearer and becomes either a brief undergarment or a pair of "trousers" depending on whether he/she tends more towards Bush or Blair in her/his ( can we say hir?) political preferences. If the wearer cant stomach either, the garment remains in its default state, as a single, or standard invisi-texture. Which can prove embarassingly revealing, or refreshingly honest, depending on your viewpoint. (For those not well informed, an invisi-texture hides some things but not others. Not everyone can predict which, so there can be some surprises.)

The PingKing
Unlike the other products, this is not an in-world device, but a small program that sits on your computer, running in the background while you are online, to enhance your experience. Its performance enhancing effect can be observed by watching the ping times in the statistics window. If it is functioning correctly, whenever you avi is moving at faster than a slow walk, your ping time will climb temporarily up from the normal 50, 100 or 200mS ( depending on where you are), towards an impressive 1200, 2000, or 3000mS. If flying fast you may even be able to reach the magnificent heights of 7000 or we have even seen 8000ms before it falls back down when you stop. This helpful feature is intended to enhance your experience by reducing the number of positional updates at speed, so that you are not distracted from thinking about what you'll do when you arrive. It also will often give you a brief but tantalising glimpse of where you might have ended up if you had kept going. There is a rumor that the PingKing might have been incorporated into the Mac client at the last upgrade.

Your turn.
*feeling nervous*

The basics of SL woman and SL man interaction needs expansion, that was accurate

I thought you wanted to talk about new projects; aren't many of these already standard features? It's all in the packaging, I guess.

I'm not working on anything nearly as intricate and exciting as all of this; you are quite the multi-tasker, aren't you? My focus has been on building a tourist trap primarily for bumper boats but also for other water related activities at my diner in Cincta.

Very clever Arwen! I especially like the V.S.O.-Splatt! Please let me know when those go on sale, hehe.

Thankyou, Chip.
I think the V.S.O.-Splatt will indeed be a pretty good seller. Meet basic needs and all that.

At the moment I'm trying to get the timing just right, so that the target computer goes down just BEFORE your SO gets the automatic notification that you have logged on. So long as you log off just before the two hour deadline (I'm building in a warning alarm) he/she (shall we say "she" for simplicity?) will never even know you logged on. But you will of course retain the valuable option of admitting your presence, then complaining that you waited two hours, and she never turned up.

What do you think, should I build in a switchable option to take her computer down just AFTER she sees you arrive, but before her whoop of triumph (sorry welcome) is transmitted? Best of both worlds? You could even accuse her of having tried to avoid you by her having logged off immediately you arrived. Get her on the back foot, so to speak. What sweet irony that would be.

Girl readers just transpose the gender of the pronouns of course. Equally valuable.

The V.S.O. Splatt was a personal favorite of mine, too. Might I suggest a few minor tweaks to appeal to a greater audience? I was thinking that the "I just crashed" could be triggered by "what's for dinner?". Having a pizza, 6 pack, and the remote control delivered automatically would likely gain a lot more than the 2 hour design time offered here.

Also, small request here, could you make that for "Others" (significant or not)? I see a far greater apeal beyond those involved in a one and only relationship.

Great suggestion, Margaret. Thankyou. Ill see what I can do.

The Little Greaser Pizza Counter... earn a linden dollar every 2 minutes making pizza after mindnumbing pizza - complete with annoying sounds and realistic animations to enhance the realisim of mind numbing repedative labour.

'My First Poopy' toilet that will let you park once and hour and leave a present - paying you $1 dollar per defication. It will announce to the entire sim - shouting 'I made a poopy'..


Funny thing is I am actually making these items for a certain content baron who originally suggested them (when I get my head out of poser for more than an hour).

Siggy.

Thanks for that insight into your coming products, Siggy.
Bring 'em on !
Yay ! Now we're rolling !

I am beginning to think I may need help with testing some of the ten nearly-completed projects I list in the second post of the thread. Its all getting a bit much for one person.

Would anyone interested in volunteering please post here, indicating which project or projects interest them.

I've got to confess, peeps, I'm just a teensy bit disheartened by the lack of response here.

No lists of other peoples imminent products?
No one interested in being a beta tester for any of the ten wonderful scripted gadgets I described in the second post ?

Spoilsports !

Is this a transatlantic thing perhaps ?

No-one interested in The Ultimate Lagometer?

BargainHunter 4?

The ISS-1 ?

No interest in TransatPantica 3 or Dopit Dopit ? (any one spot the MR MEN reference ?)

Gaaaar !!!!!

I've got to confess, peeps, I'm just a teensy bit disheartened by the lack of response here.

No lists of other peoples imminent products?
No one interested in being a beta tester for any of the ten wonderful scripted gadgets I described in the second post ?

Spoilsports !

Is this a transatlantic thing perhaps ?

No-one interested in The Ultimate Lagometer?
BargainHunter 4?
The ISS-1 ?
No interest in TransatPantica 3 or Dopit Dopit ? (any one spot the MR MEN reference ?)

Gaaaar !!!!!

I want to test the lagometer !



That's evil! The bad kind of evil. Will you really unleash your second project while so many people in SL live in a country where toilets are called "bathroom" ?

Awww Margaret, how right and how perceptive. Are you:

a/ in marketing
b/ involved in several relationships at once ?
c/ both

I am working on the ultimate advertising product, the "Popup Prim" (TM). I don't want to give away everything but I am so excited I can't wait. I have developed coding that can be embedded in every Linden plant and tree. They are context responsive scripts that when someone with in the surrounding 4 sims speaks a target word, the tree becomes a billboard that is related to that word. For instance I set up several trees designed to listen for words spoken by nearby av's. For example, someone announces, "BRB, need to go potty" a tree nearby hears the word "potty" and pops up a 100mx100m billboard advertising toilet paper. Some one else may say, "Going to get a drink" and a fern hears the word "drink" and up pops an ad for a favorite softdrink. The billboards stay up for an hour to make sure everyone gets the message that may be in range. It can be set to spin, play honking noises and shower particles to really get your point across. These "Popup Prims" will be available for $10L and are fully copyable so you can put out as many as you need. There are 6 different types to foil "killer" scripts so your message will always get through.

My next item in development is the "Popup Prim Killer" (TM) that is specifically designed to be worn discretely and will completely disable the dreaded "Popup Prim" thereby allowing you to fully enjoy your Second Life experience without the aggrivation and annoyance caused by the shameless and widespread use of "Popup Prims" (TM). These are invisible attachements that block the action of the dreaded "Popup Prim" (TM) and are affordable at the low low price of $10,000L each (4 are needed to block all types of "Popup Prims" currently known, updates will be available for $3000L when new types are discovered.

Brought to you by Integrity Scriptors "If it says integrity, it means we are honest... really..says so right in the name." A division of American Way Inc. "If you feel cheated, it must be American Way!"

I go to market when I'm out of coffee and utilize all the baggers, not wanting to show favoritism.

Wow, Khatmandu

Couple of amazing complementary products there, fine demonstration of the entrepreneurial spirit at work. I can see you have your business strategy fine tuned to perfection.

What with Arwen's fine products at the start of the thread - I particularly like the way the "Bargainhound4" solves any possible confusion when land buying - this thread is a glimpse of what's coming.

Anybody else got nearly finished good stuff to tell us about ?
All I can make at present is the subway to work (just).