Whilst pondering the many theories on the TOS change, I’ve speculated wildly and with absolutely no clues that it may be feasible that Linden Lab could have been working on a Second Life game engine. The thing with wild speculation is that you begin to convince yourself that it makes sense.<\/p>\n
Desura<\/a>, the digital distribution platform Linden Lab own lists a number of game engines<\/a> for devs to get their hands on. There are big players such as Unity 3D<\/a>\u00a0, Unreal Development Kit<\/a> and CryEngine3<\/a>. However there are also much smaller players such as Ren’PY<\/a> for visual novels and Adventure Game Studio<\/a> for those who want to make point and click adventures. These latters ones are the ones where I think opportunity could knock for Linden Lab.<\/p>\n Second Life is more than capable of being used for point and click adventures. Second Life is not suitable for all action first person shooters, but for point and click adventures it could work. People are still making and selling point and click adventures.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Now going into further speculation mode, where would people who used a Second Life game engine want to get their content from? Well a readily available marketplace would be a real boost in those terms. Extending reach of Second Life concepts, assets and ideas to communities outside Second Life could also be beneficial to Second Life itself.<\/p>\n This sort of speculation is chaotic in its nature and I’m not linking this sort of concept to the TOS changes, more on those later, but I’m sure Second Life’s content creators would welcome the opportunity to sell to other markets, as long as the terms were agreeable.<\/p>\n Desura looks to me to be a very decent purchase by Linden Lab, it has real potential, there’s potential with Desura to really grow amongst the indie developer community for games and content.<\/p>\n