PaleoQuest is Linden Lab’s latest adventure game in Portal Park and they have blogged about it – Brave Dinosaurs & Win Prizes in PaleoQuest! :

Magellan Linden put the moles to work building a theme park on the latest hunk of land discovered in Second Life… but something’s gone horribly wrong!

Uncover the mystery of a menacing plan and explore six exciting regions teeming with dinosaurs and valuable collectibles in PaleoQuest. The evil Dr. Talpa has mangled space and time – colliding past, present, and future into a single point in time – which happens to be at the PaleoQuest Theme Park. Are you the dashing hero the world needs to stop Dr. Talpa from taking over? The rewards are great – but so is the risk! Dare the treacherous obstacles that lay in waiting, and uncover a wealth of hidden tools and items that will aid you in your quest for fame and adventure. 

Please read the blog post in full for full details about the prizes and any restrictions. Inara Pey has posted a very good blog post about PaleoQuest : Experiencing PaleoQuest, the Lab’s latest adventure in Second Life.

I haven’t yet delved deep into PaleoQuest, but I have briefly visiting the opening area. Starting in Portal Park follow the sign for PaleoQuest, go down the path, accept the experiences request and you’ll soon be on your way, complete with a funky hud that has information regarding the game.

The welcome centre has a lot of useful information, including videos that are well worth watching, I’ll embed a couple in this post, starting with the trailer for the game. Which isn’t actually in the welcome centre, but more on that later.

This is a game that is inspired by the legend that is Magellan Linden, if you are not familiar with who Magellan Linden is, I suggest you follow the link, he’s a fascinating character, who likes bars!

PaleoQuest is a linear adventure, meaning you have to finish a quest in one zone to move on to the next. However there are means of travelling around that initially look a lot less dangerous, such as by Monorail. However, the advice is to use a standard sized avatar and I discovered why as my Dwarfin had difficulty getting on the Monorail. Seriously, you would think The Moles would be more sympathetic!

The land in PaleoQuest is lush, full of vegetation and also dinosaurs! Be wary, you can end up in very sticky situations here.

Some dinosaurs are likely to be more dangerous than others, I spied the dinosaur above near the starting area. This looks like a dinosaur more inclined to vegetation, but with horns like that, I chose not to get too close!

I mentioned earlier in the post how the trailer for PaleoQuest is not available in the welcome area, instead they have the background story and this is well worth watching, it not only gives a bit more background, it also gives you more of an idea about Magellan Linden and Dr Talpa.

The how to play video is well worth watching too, Magellan pulls no punches on people who whine that the game is too hard 😉

This looks like a good development by Linden Lab, it exemplifies how well experiences can work, it’s good to look at and most of all, it looks like fun and who doesn’t like fun?

So are you up to the challenge, can you help Magellan Linden save the grid from the evil Dr Talpa?

SLURL To Portal Park : http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Portal%20Park%201/133/119/23/