{"id":6067,"date":"2017-09-05T19:41:50","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T18:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=6067"},"modified":"2017-09-05T19:41:50","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T18:41:50","slug":"mitsumi-town-tokyo-in-second-life-is-simply-stunning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=6067","title":{"rendered":"Mitsumi-Town Tokyo in Second Life is Simply Stunning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Mitsumi Town Tokyo, by Ciaran Laval on Flickr!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ciaran_laval\/36631599950\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4341\/36631599950_6d2fa423ef.jpg?resize=500%2C265&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Mitsumi Town Tokyo\" width=\"500\" height=\"265\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hamlet Au over at New World Notes recently posted <a href=\"http:\/\/nwn.blogs.com\/nwn\/2017\/09\/eripom-moonwall-sl-anime-combat-second-life-japan-city.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an article about Mitsumi-Town Tokyo in Second Life<\/a> . Lead developer for the project, Eripom Moonwall, spoke to Hamlet :<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Lead developed by Eripom Moonwall, an SLer who actually lives in Japan and has built up a successful SL weapons business in her spare time as a Tokyo-based financial consultant. Working with two producers, four builders and one &#8220;advisor of traffic laws and infrastructures&#8221; (as she describes the role), Ms. Moonwall and her team took three months to make Mistumi-Town what it is today. And they&#8217;re only 70% done, she tells me.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s more in the article by Hamlet, so it&#8217;s well worth a read, but more than that, Mitsumi-Town Tokyo is well worth a visit, it&#8217;s simply stunning.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Road Network, by Ciaran Laval on Flickr!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ciaran_laval\/36887647371\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4338\/36887647371_7e419c6b66.jpg?resize=500%2C265&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Road Network\" width=\"500\" height=\"265\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The design really feels like a city and makes great use of building upwards as well as using the ground and even going underground.<\/p>\n<p>The impressive looking roads and other transport options demonstrate an attention to detail that really makes a design feel immersive.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Traffic Control, by Ciaran Laval on Flickr!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ciaran_laval\/37028617305\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4434\/37028617305_79fd6d5e39.jpg?resize=500%2C265&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Traffic Control\" width=\"500\" height=\"265\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The region is relatively easy to navigate, but bear in mind that there is quite a lot to navigate, roads, paths, buildings and make sure that if you do visit that you look up and down.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Rooftops, by Ciaran Laval on Flickr!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ciaran_laval\/36631596830\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4437\/36631596830_9290be5353.jpg?resize=500%2C265&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Rooftops\" width=\"500\" height=\"265\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Looking down also means visiting underground stations, again this is great use of available space.<\/p>\n<p>Please bear in mind that this is a Japanese inspired region, so you will see signs in Japanese, but that is not a hindrance because the impressive design means that you will happily find your own way around.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Underground, by Ciaran Laval on Flickr!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ciaran_laval\/36887643771\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4388\/36887643771_b2650fb7e3.jpg?resize=500%2C265&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Underground\" width=\"500\" height=\"265\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SLURL To Mitsumi-Town : \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/maps.secondlife.com\/secondlife\/R2%20Fashion\/211\/143\/1127\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/maps.secondlife.com\/secondlife\/R2%20Fashion\/211\/143\/1127<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hamlet Au over at New World Notes recently posted an article about Mitsumi-Town Tokyo in Second Life . Lead developer for the project, Eripom Moonwall, spoke to Hamlet : Lead developed by Eripom Moonwall, an SLer who actually lives in Japan and has built up a successful SL weapons business in her spare time as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=6067\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mitsumi-Town Tokyo in Second Life is Simply Stunning&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,14],"tags":[19,1171,1022],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6rJUK-1zR","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6067"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6068,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6067\/revisions\/6068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}