Linden Lab – Page 77 – Ciaran Laval

March 6, 2015March 6, 2015

Jordan Reyne’s Musical Performances Span The Digital Divide

Jordan Reyne hails from New Zealand, although these days she lives in London, England. Jordan spends time singing in Second Life and like many a Second Life performer she has busy weekends, for example next weekend Jordan’s Second Life performance schedule reads :

Friday 13th March – SL Mango Yacht Club 2:00pm SLT – SLURL : http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Mango/74/53/28
Friday 13th March – Dark Maiden Hollow 11:00pm SLT – SLURL : http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Dragons%20Meadow/119/42/151
Sunday 15th March – Second Life: Key West 1.00pm SLT – SLURL : http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Key%20West%20Island/116/100/30

Then Jordan takes a break, not returning to Second Life until Friday 10th April. However it’s what Jordan does during that break that may surprise those unfamiliar with her work. Whilst Jordan may not be performing in the virtual world of Second Life, she will actually be performing real gigs in places such as Leipzig in Germany and Warsaw in Poland. Late in the year Jordan will be appearing in the UK, Portugal and Germany and in between those dates she comes back to Second Life to perform there too.

Some of Jordan’s artwork on her record covers and her costumes actually look like something you’d expect to see inside Second Life. Jordan’s performances outside of the virtual world have earned some glowing praise, Cat On The Wall Music and Culture Magazine said :

Jordan Reyne – and I do not mean this as idle praise – managed to provide one of the most extraordinarily fascinating live shows I have ever seen on stage. A far cry from the punk and alternative rock that was beginning to form a theme of this April’s event, she instead built up a series of haunting, beautiful Celtic folk songs that proved to be mesmerising in both subject and style.

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March 5, 2015

Have Twitch Banned Streaming Of Second Life?

Back in February Iris Ophelia published an article over at New World Notes regarding live streaming Second Life : Quick Tips: SL Content Creators, Here’s How to Start Livestreaming Your Work.

In that blog post Iris provided a tip for the choice of hosting service to stream your work on :

Twitch.tv remains the most popular choice among Second Life streamers because it’s free and has a lot of momentum in the tech and gaming communities, but it’s not without its drawbacks.

However it seems all isn’t well in the world of live streaming Second Life via Twitch. In the comments of Iris’ article Jessica Pixel wrote :

Be careful streaming ‘non-games’ on Twitch. I actually had my account banned for 24 hours today while I was streaming myself scripting things in Second Life. Granted, I think that happens when someone reports you and my screen probably didn’t look like I was ‘playing’, even though I know there wasn’t anything questionable on my screen.

Jessica appealed her ban and was then told by a moderator of Twitch :

Your account was suspended for streaming Second Life, which is not permitted for streaming on our services. Do not do this again.

This raised quite a few questions, the first one being why is there a Second Life category on Twitch if it’s banned? Another being, if Second Life is banned, why won’t Twitch point this out?

Yesterday Iris Ophelia published a follow up article : Twitch Reportedly Suspending Users for Streaming Second Life – Competitor Hitbox “Happy” to Allow SL Streaming. Iris reported that there is talk of Second Life being banned from Twitch going back to January 2014.

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March 4, 2015March 4, 2015

MadPea Games History Trail Shows That Games Can Be Developed Within Second Life

Fans of computer games are seeing a lot of news coming out of the Game Developers Conference 2015 this week. Linden Lab aren’t there, as far as I know. They have been there before. However Second Life isn’t widely known for games of the interactive sort. Having said that, there are games within Second Life and MadPea Games are one of the best known developers of games within Second Life.

MadPea Games have also moved into a new home, on the Consignment sim which they share with Wavie Haller’s Consignment brand. This is a sensible arrangement as the two brands have been collaborating on recent projects such as Buried and Blood Letters.

However one very fascinating aspect of this collaboration is the introduction of a history trail on the sim. The trail contains signposts of previous MadPea Games productions, which when touched, give you a brief glimpse of a moment of MadPea Games history in local chat along with links to youTube videos of their work and a real sense that games can be developed within the virtual world of Second Life.

For a start there are a lot of signs. They are extremely informative and inform the trailblazing explorer of such matters as :

Before MadPea we were known as Beyond Imagination and brought our first game out in February 2008 called Where the Hell is Harvey Wayne? It was one of the rare grid-wide hunts back in the day, leading to a full sim with puzzles and ciphers to solve.

Since 2008 MadPea have introduced plenty more games and interactive experiences. They have also moved to different places and collaborated with plenty of other brands.

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March 2, 2015

Chris Marker’s Work Lives On In Ouvroir

Chris Marker was a French photographer and film director. One of Chris’ more famous films was the 1962 film La Jetée, constructed almost entirely from black & white photographs and telling the story of a man sent back in time to research past events to help the future. The story is set in a post nuclear war environment. The film is the inspiration for both the film and TV series, Twelve Monkeys.

Chris was rarely interviewed and was often happy to be represented as a cat. More on that shortly. In his later years Chris turned some of his attention to Second Life. Chris passed away in July 2012 at the age of 91, but his work lives on in Second Life on the sim of Ouvroir.

The sim of Ouvroir opened in 2008 and was timed to open simultaneously with Chris’ real life exhibition at the Museum für Gestaltung in Zürich.

The sim was created with the assistance of MosMax Hax aka Max Moswitzer. Then there’s the cat, the real cat was known as Guillaume-en-Egypte, who also became a furry entity in Second Life.

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February 27, 2015

Second Life Residents Start To Pay Their Respects To Mr Spock

An Image Should Be Here — Spock On The Map

I can remember being in Second Life one evening when there was a lot of kerfuffle going on in group chat urging people to look at Sandbox Cordova on the map. These things happen, I wasn’t taking much notice and then I decided to take a look. The above image was a genuine view of the Second Life map at that time.

The above golden moment was captured by Imnotgoing Sideways. There’s another example over at SLUniverse complete with a little bit of commentary from the moment. The Lindens may not have found it quite as funny as we did.

The Second Life Science Fiction Convention, which runs until March 1st have started to pay their respects to Leonard Nimoy, forever known as Mr Spock.

The United Federation Of Planets are putting up signs to mark the memory of Spock.

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