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Versu Debuts On The iPad

I have been checking the Versu website regularly for updates on Linden Lab’s interactive fiction venture from Emily Short and Richard Evans to see whether Versu was available. The site merely said “Coming Soon” but today I see a blog post from Hamlet Au over at New World Notes announcing that it is now available, but only on the iPad, although an Android version is promised.

I must confess to being bitterly disappointed to learn that Versu is a tablet app. I hadn’t noticed this in any of the previous articles about the product, although to be fair they were few and far between. Swings and roundabouts here, I wasn’t expecting much from Dio and that turned out to be surprisingly engaging for me. However having looked forward to seeing Versu, I am totally deflated. However it still looks like an interesting product and from Linden Lab’s perspective, they now have products available on the web, Steam, iTunes App Store with applications for desktops and tablets, so the company is covering more ground than ever before.

As well as Hamlet’s post there’s also an official press release from Linden Lab detailing the product and a video on the Versu website, which I’ll embed later in this post.

Versu launches with some stories, as you’d expect. Initially you will get:

  • An Introduction To Society – Designed as an introduction to Versu.
  • The Unwelcome Proposal – A scene from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice where you can change the outcome.
  • The House On The Cliff – An original playable ghost story from Emily Short.

They are bundled with Versu for free, another title “A Family Supper” will be available for USD$4.99. This is billed as a murder mystery by Emily Short and looks as if it’s the title that was erroneously put on the Versu website when details about the product were posted for a day or two at the start of the year.

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Linden Lab Create Valentine’s Gift Mystery

Linden Lab have, via a blog post and emails, promised people who login by 7.30 PT today, a Valentine’s gift, although what it is they aren’t revealing and if I knew I wouldn’t spoil the surprise. The blog post: A Valentine’s Gift For You From Linden Lab, is short on clues.

The email is pretty much a copy of the blog post, minus the funky picture, well it does have the addition of a foreign language version:

Um presente de Valentine’s Day para você – da Linden Labs

No Second Life, Valentine’s Day é um dia importante. E o Second Life é o lugar perfeito para curtir esse dia – para procurar um presente especial no Marketplace, ou um lugar romântico para você e sua pessoa querida explorarem juntos, ou simplesmente para festejar com amigos no in-world, .

Para você se divertir ainda mais no Second Life neste Valentine’s Day, temos uma presente surpresa para você. Contas existentes, para se qualificar para ganhá-lo, você precisa fazer login no site nas próximas 24 horas, portanto, não perca mais tempo!

Qual é a surpresa? Bem, se lhe contarmos não será mais surpresa – faça login dentro de 24 horas para descobrir.

Esperamos que você curta esse presente especial e lhe desejamos um ótimo Valentine’s Day!

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Creating A Double Sided Object Giver

I’m going to go through a little bit of scripting here, caveats apply, I have a very basic understanding of LSL, this can almost certainly be done in a more efficient manner and you use this advice at your own risk! Now on with the show. Also the scripts I have examples of don’t fit the window, so you’ll need to use the scrollbars to see it all.

One of the simple scripted tools in Second Life is a notecard giver or a freebie object giver. These are useful and the script is simple, if you want to get funky and have reports from who touched your board then it gets a tad more complicated, but the basic functionality is a simple script:

default
{
state_entry()
{
}

touch_start(integer total_number)
{
llGiveInventory(llDetectedKey(0),llGetInventoryName(INVENTORY_OBJECT, 0));
}

}

That’s it, just put a prim with your freebie goodies inside the object giver prim and you’re good to go. However we can build slightly on this by using both sides of the object giver prim to give a different object, to do that we can use llDetectedTouchFace, which will, as the name implies, detect which face of your prim is touched.

So let’s start by creating a new prim and then creating a new script. To do this just go to the content tab of your prim and click create new script.

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The Protest Gnomes Multiply During No Credit Protest

Protest Gnomes

So I arrive at my sim and pop in to The Dwarf Inn to check on my Dwarfins, but down a side alley to the tavern I find more protest Gnomes have appeared and it appears they aren’t happy …. with me!

“Oi, you’ve been using our brothers in your blog posts, with no credit to JubJub” said one.

“You can’t just use us like that” said another.

“JubJub brings us to life and you don’t mention that some of us come with lanterns”

“Or scripted versions that people can edit the signs of”

“That too, so it’s about time you mentioned JubJub Forder’s house of fun in the sim of VoronezhIrkutsk”

“Reasonable prices, some of us are even free!”

“And don’t think those Dwarfins in the tavern will protect you from us”

“No, they’re too busy drinking mead and breeding”

They seemed to find this most amusing and shook placards at me!

“Oh and don’t forget to go and check out Hex’s post at SLUniverse”

“Oh yes” laughed a Gnome “Governor Linden Agrees: The Tier is too damn high“.

At this they cackled manically and then seemed to lose interest in me!

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A Visit To Wasabi Pills

It’s all Jezebel Bailey’s fault, there I was happily mining with my Dwarfins when she told me I needed to go dancing. Now this meant I would need to scrub up a bit and find a human form. Fortunately I’ve recently discovered the joys of outfits, I mean in the last couple of weeks …. yes I know! Anyway, I found a mostly human outfit, a rather spiffy old outfit with a rapier just to be safe, now I just needed some hair and I found something called Dragon Mesh hair in my inventory. Then I went to find the protest Gnomes to give Jezebel Bailey what for, dancing indeed!

Hero And Gnomes

Wait wait wait! Where did I get this hair? I don’t remember buying Mesh Hair. This is where paying attention comes in handy, someone at Wasabi Pills had sent me some dragon hair for review ….. me? Review hair? Seriously I’m usually bald. However now I was in a quandry because, I liked the hair, it fit first time without piddling around for a start. So I thought I best go and visit this Wasabi Pills store to see what’s what.

Anyway Wasabi Pills hair store seems to be a converted Church and from the outside it all looks sweetness and light:

A Visit To Wasabi Pills

This impression wouldn’t last!

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