Virtual Worlds – Page 8

April 23, 2018

Tabletop Gaming Makes Debut At Fantasy Faire 2018

Tabletop gaming has made its debut at this year’s Fantasy Faire in Second Life, with a host of games on offer for people to partake in.

The games include :

Dungeons & Dragons 5e
Fortunately-Unfortunately
The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Ultimate Werewolf
Kobold Story
Havoc Brigade
Honey Heist
The Witch is Dead
Fate Accelerated
Fiasco

The games range in style and performance, for example The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen isn’t really a roleplaying game as such, players sit around telling wild tales, whereas Dungeons & Dragons 5e is very much a roleplaying game.

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April 19, 2018

Fantasy Faire 2018 – The Literary Festival

Fantasy Faire have embraced a literary festival over the last few years and this year is no exception as Litfest returns.

Litfest involves talking about books, creative writing, readings, performances, tours, talks with authors and more.

Last year double hugo nominee Seanan McGuire visited Fantasy Faire, this year another two authors will be visiting.

On Tuesday April 24th Tom Lloyd, author of the Twilight Reign series of novels will be in conversation with David Abbot and on Thursday April 26th Danie Ware, Author of the Ecko series will be in conversation with the very same David Abbot.

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March 23, 2018

Fantasy Faire Call For Merchants, Sponsors and Bloggers

Fantasy Faire Image here

Fantasy Faire in Second Life turns 10 this year and plans are well underway for the event which takes place April 19th – 29th.

The first steps for this year’s event were announced by Sonya Marmurek on 22nd February and in that link you will find an application form for merchants and sponsors.

This year’s event will host ten regions for merchants to ply their wares and raise money for Relay For Life, but as I type this I can see that seven of those ten regions are already sold out.

Sponsorship options are already selling out too but fear not, there are other ways to get involved. Fantasy Faire Radio has sponsorship opportunities.

There are also opportunities to get involved in the auctions and the hunt, so don’t despair if you feel you’re too late to apply to get involved, there are still plenty of ways to get involved.

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March 23, 2018

Fantasy Faire 2018 – The Press Release

Fantasy Faire Image here

Fantsay Faire in Second Life turns 10 this year, which is something to be very excited by. Plans are well underway and I’ll do a couple of posts on the subject but in this post I’m simply posting details from the official press release.

PRESS RELEASE

* * Fantasy Faire 2018, April 19 – 29* *
A Benefit for the American Cancer Society

Celebrating its tenth year, Fantasy Faire 2018 is the largest gathering of fantasy designers, enthusiasts, roleplayers and performers in the virtual world. From Thursday, April 19 to Sunday April 29, treat yourself to eleven days of shopping, dance and theater performances, DJ parties, auctions, questing, Literary Festival, fantasy art, events and roleplaying as thousands of Second Life residents and creators bring their own visions together to support the American Cancer Society’s vision of a world without cancer.

Avatars, clothing, furnishings, gadgets and exclusive items are available from more than 200 of Second Life’s top Fantasy Creators across ten stunning shopping sims designed by some of the visionary artists behind many of the hottest spots on the Second Life destination guide.

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March 21, 2018

Second Life Heads For 15th Birthday With 15 Reasons To Be Cheerful

Linden Lab have blogged Happy 15th Birthday, Second Life! Fifteen Reasons To Celebrate. Two of those reasons are long term issues. Linden Lab are addressing the issue of the tier being too damn high and they are also planning to bring back last names.

Linden Lab recently announced reductions to mainland tier pricing as well as allowing premium members 1,024m of free tier, a doubling of the old 512m limit. The latest blog post points out that this isn’t the end of addressing tier pricing though :

Currently, Land costs can be quite high, and make up a lopsided portion of our Second Life revenues. To improve this imbalance, we plan to increase revenues in other ways so that we can lower land costs further. In order to avoid shocks to the in-world economy and to take care that we keep the business healthy, we plan to make these changes in a measured way, taking time to assess the impacts of each change as we go.

I’ve long said that Linden Lab need more revenue sources and that tier was far too large a part of their business model, so I’m definitely encouraged by this.

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