Second life is a game created by Linden Lab on 2006.
It’s supposed to be a simulator of life, but more based on social life.
The game is based on the sci-fi novel ‘Snow Crash’ by Neal Stephenson and on Cyberpunk.
It works with a 3d avatar system, that is based on creating your own character and moving on a 3d world.
As it is a simulator of life, you also have to buy or sell things, and it has its own currency, the Linden Dollar (L$). You start with a quantity of L$’s and if you want to get more you’ll have to exchange them by real money by PayPal.
You can see movies, called machinimas and some bands ‘played’ on the game, like U2.
And also political life! Gaspar Llamazares from Spanish ‘Izquierda Unida’ joint the game and they have an office inside the game and some other.
There are communities created for countries so you can find Spanish community and Polish community. The Spanish community in second life is the 85% of the total population of the game.
So Second Life is a perfect representation of life.
- First of all you have to go to Second Life’s website (http://secondlife.com/)
- Then click on Get Started (top right)
- Next you have to fill all the spaces that they tell you.
- To get a trial / demo of the game you have to be over 18 or pay directly
· When you fill all the spaces,
accept the terms of service agreement, and click on Create Account.
- You will get an email, which you don’t have to reply, with a link, when you click on the link you will activate your account.
- Then directly you will be sent to the download section.
- When you download th e game, install it and you will be able to play!
5 comments:
Excellent idea. You could play with our friends in Poland and everyone would have his/her avatar. There seems to be a problem with the picture you've chosen. Could you please change it?
I don't know if You have already changed it but on my computer I have no problems with it;)
it can be quite interesting:)
In my case, I can see the second picture but not the first. Only an empty space and the same happens in other computers.It doesn't look very nice.
Today I've read somewhere that Second life's got lots of educational possibilities. It seems that you can attend lectures, engage in discussion groups, seminars, give Power Point presentations and it's going to be linked to Moodle in the future. It seems there will be a language school inside Second Life in the near future.
So, do you think we will be attending face-to-face lessons in the future??????
I think that we cannot compare that to real lessons, maybe with some changes could be, but as far as I know the game is created to have fun :P just kidding.
I would like to try it but we have to pay.
i don't like this game because is slow and boring.
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