The Meauxle Bureaux – Home Of The Moles

Michael Linden Is Here!

In her regular update on the number of sims on the grid, Tyche Shepherd pointed out that Linden Lab had added a couple of sims this week, one of which is named Meauxle Bureaux, home of the Moles, the busy bees of the Linden Department Of Public Works. Now if you’re wondering who the Moles are or what the LDPW is, let’s just take a quote from the wiki page :

The Linden Department of Public Works (LDPW) is a program focused on improvements related to the experience of living on, or visiting the Linden Mainland. The LDPW will organize teams of Resident builders, artists, and scripters (the Moles!) to create new content on Linden Lab’s behalf and to the benefit of all. Rather than divert company resources from areas of development that contribute to important issues like stability and usability, Linden Lab is choosing to go to the experts…

The experts being residents. So I set off to explore this brave new world and found it’s an oldie but a goodie.

Naughty Mole Build

The sim may look familiar, indeed it will look very familiar to anyone who roamed the Lumenaria sim at Fantasy Faire 2013 because that’s where most of the build is from. However that was an impressive build and I’m pleased to see it given a second life by the Moles… second life, get it? Haha ok ok I’ll stop.

Meauxles Bureaux

On the sim itself you will find buildings with a sign indicating which mole occupies the building. They may be moles, but they don’t seem to live in holes. Michael Linden also has a place there as well as a central building which has posters for attractions in Second Life such as portal park.

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Farewell Misty Mole

After five years, Misty Mole is no longer working freelance for Linden Lab. Misty, who has a very impressive list of credits has put a video up on YouTube highlighting her work, I’ll embed it at the end of the post.

The Moles are a team who help Linden Lab to create content, involving repairing roads, creating buildings, sound effects, musical scores etc. They aren’t as well known as Lindens of course but you’ll find their work around the grid.

Misty’s rather impressive list of work includes:

  • Build and objects for Nautilus continent.
  • Interior build for Hau Koda airport.
  • Memorial – build of the central monument, build of some personal monuments and music.
  • Small builds to fill in abandoned land.
  • Linden Homes sims and transitionals – decorating and original games hidden in some of the sims I built.
  • Pyri – build of the throne and burial room.
  • Cape Ekim, original concept and project management and music (dragon by Garden Mole).
  • Build for Sea of Fables sims.
  • Build for Coastal Waterways sims, including the White Islands game.
  • Project management and music for the experimental game build Kneph.
  • Project Management, building and original music for Linden Realms.
  • Sounds and music for the Grid Hunt.
  • Fireworks for SL10B.

The music used in the video is Misty’s work.

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