To start off, players create a basic avatar which represents their activity in game. In addition, no personal information is required to be able to play the game, so one does not need to worry about any theft of credentials. Security is also pretty tight in the game with multiple layers of encryption to protect the identity of the child. It provides a very safe environment for kids to enjoy a virtual social experience and chat with other kids online. ‘SmallWorlds’ is another fun interactive social experience that plays very similar to ‘MSP’ but is targeted towards children. The graphics and the gameplay structures are very similar to ‘MSP’, so if you are familiar with one, you will definitely be familiar with the other. You are able to chat and talk to other people in the game in a safe and secure anonymous environment. The wide popularity of the game ensures that the servers are always busy amping up its social aspect. These can be earned by travelling through the virtual world of the game and completing events and quests. There are various characters in the game for you to choose from and you can further customize the look of your characters using in game coins. Hence, the game is accessible from any web browser in the world as long as you have a steady net connection. It requires no external files to be downloaded and saved locally. It is completely browser based, so only a simple account is needed to play. I'm going to consider getting a new cross-platform desktop client requiring low system specs forward momentum from the bad call of shifting focus to iOS.‘OurWorld’ is an extremely popular virtual experience that is targeted towards teenagers. Its hard to be positive about Blue Mars, AR squandered a lot of potential chasing buzzword technologies and platforms, and I don't think they're anywhere near done so long as someone up top thinks its a good idea despite having more Twitter followers than in-world customers.īut again, credit where credit is due. Now though, Linden Lab has moved forward to the point we're months away from having mesh, meanwhile AR is just now getting to addressing one of the first legit concerns from the likes of Gwyn and those echoing her in support for Mac.while seemingly losing support for most of everything else except Hot or Not. They weren't AR's prospective customers.īy far the biggest amount of attention Blue Mars seemed to get was from Second Life users willing to move to or take up a second platform if it was worth their while. It makes 0 sense to build for the customers of Zwinky, TweekDeck and a company out of a William Gibson book. Zwinky is Zwinky, IMVU is closer to a Second Life-esque virtual world than that, given support of custom 3D content creation and all.īlue Mars is 3D Zwinky augmented reality Twitter client, and 3-5 more additional Frankenstein pieces in the coming year if AR drifts further away from just fostering the creation of a virtual world.Īt a point Avatar Reality is going to have to start working on something customers that've actually shown interest want. My avatar dancing on my real life table is cool and being able to tweet to the world outside is awesome as well, but uh, whens it going to be about the virtual world itself with Blue Mars? AR needs to end the fascination with the latest buzzwords, iOS and social network integration and focus more on regaining the trust and faith of its developer community and empower them to build a virtual world. The 1,000th consecutive party in the Welcome Area with BLU prizes isn't enough. I dig the augmented reality, social networking integration and all that stuff, but to its detriment Blue Mars has become the poster child of "what ifs" in implementing buzz words as they come.Īll I want to do is create experiences and experience other's creations with my friends in a place we can meet more friends. I take it the cloud-rendering deal has been dropped as the multiplatform strategy since the 'light' client will leverage OpenGL? Good step forward if so.Ī lot of step backwards though if the initial featureset for that client is equivalent to the iOS app.
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