#Virtual Worlds

[astrosoldweb]

Icons from spark city world

[fairydraws04]

Been thinking about the rainbow magic books, so of course, i made a rainbow magic sona

[bye2k]

capri-sun's advergame world, planet juice (2001-2005)

[warren-j]

Zanpo

I'm surprised how little the virtual world of Zanpo has been talked about, like in general. It was this neat isometric virtual world game where users would collaborate to create a whole city, block by block. The game was around for nearly 8 years (I think?), yet it only really exists as remnants.

I would spend a lot of time on the computer just walking through the different cities, exploring the different creations. It was a fascinating little flash game.

If I recall, over the course of the site's existence, site owner Genjo never removed that announcement from the home page.

Thanks to Youtube user Wetsoulz, we have a good time capsule of the site's different functions! Check it out:

[disk28]

[sssluggo]

my grandma was using an old webkinz keychain as an easter decoration this year

[aroundtheinternetxd]

I just watched a Li Speaks video on Virtual Worlds and I thought these peculiar players were interesting. Here is a Pookie- as you can see it was a type of Club Penguin player that would normally dress in certain outfits, be yellow, look for 'Duh Duhs' and 'Mumus' and asked to be picked all the while acting like a baby. There was also Pookie antis lol. I have mixed feelings on these players because although on one hand this could develop into harmful behavior but on the other could've been something about the player being emotionally neglected by parental figures irl or wanting to genuinely rp in a harmless way. Did you ever encounter these players during your time on Club Penguin? What were your opinions?

[evwuniverse]

Second Life Browser Beta - A New Forward Advancement For Second Life

You know as do all of us bloggers who are influencers in one way or another for Second Life we come across things in our travel. I followed Second Life's official Tumblr page and noticed that they had just released their browser version of Second Life to try. This is still new technology and in development but this might be a game changer for those who don't have strong laptops to run third-party viewers or don't have a whole lot of space on their laptops for one reason or another. I decided to give it a try tonight and here is my experience.

Honestly Not Bad:

To be fair, I was expecting it to be a lot worse than it truly is, with lots of lag and horrible frame rates that would make Second Life pretty much unusable. But honestly, for a browser version the frame rates weren't horrible if you're not used to being close to perfect with a gaming PC. I was getting between 29-52 frames per second in the MadPea sim this evening when I logged in. Because MadPea is where I logged out from last time after my MadPea post.

Mesh Load Times:

The loading times for mesh objects were really quick, it loaded a whole store fully in about 3 minutes maybe a little less. This was shocking to me because there were a lot of scripts and objects in this area. Even when I participated in a MadPea unlimited gaming sim with HUD everything loaded really quickly. This was amazing to see.

Browser Viewer Only Good For 10 Minutes:

Because the browser version is still in its experimental phase you're only allowed to use it for 10 minutes at a time, this I'm assuming is because streaming a virtual platform like this on a browser is I'm sure very costly. Sadly, it's only 10 minutes because I really enjoyed the experience for the 10 minutes I was on it before being kicked out. It's also nice when it comes to my multi-tasking because all I had to do was switch tabs to write this post and go back to the browser viewer. This made things a lot easier than minimizing the actual Firestorm Viewer and making it larger every time I needed to be in the world while typing. I can see this as being a great option for Second Life users as Second Life continues to work on perfecting this. It will never be perfect but this is going to be a great step forward.

The Main Cons I have:

The major problem which somewhat hinders my experience, is I love taking photos from inside of Second Life. To open up certain things like camera controls, people, maps, etc you have to scroll down and then scroll back up. Not everything fits on the screen and this can get a little annoying, especially when a lot of the time you need those tabs accessible while using Second Life. At least for me, this is something I need for a positive experience, scrolling is not ideal. I like everything in one place right in front of me. Attempting to pull of my conversations is a struggle because I don't like keeping the chat box on my screen unless I'm using it to communicate with others.

There's also another odd thing that happened before logging out. I was testing the viewpoints on the camera and for some reason, I no longer had the ability at that point to move my avatar and only move the camera controls which is kind of a weird bug to have. During this time, I went into Mouselook, DO NOT GO INTO MOUSELOOK only if you don't want to crash completely before the 10 minutes are up my CMD command center for my computer came up and the browser viewer went black. Definitely not ideal but this was only when I entered mouselook mode.

In The End:

I can see the browser-based version of Second Life being a huge step forward for this virtual platform/world. As you know virtual worlds like Roblox and IMVU have browser-based versions of their virtual worlds and this is helpful for users who can't download a viewer or want more of an ability to multi-task and not use too many computer resources. I really think that this is going to change the way users interact within Second Life. Overall this was a positive experience. I was expecting some bugs as this is not perfected and is still in beta, but honestly, there weren't as many issues as I thought there would be for something so new for the community to try and experience. As someone who did backend coding at one point, I can easily say that this is on the right track to bringing Second Life up to speed with other virtual worlds that have been browser and mobile-based for some time along with their downloadable viewers. We are coming into a world where technology is advancing now more than ever and this is really exciting to see. I can't wait to see the advancements of the browser platform as 2025 continues forward.

[b34utifuldr34m3r]

Who I wanted to be on Meez:

Glitched hair/clothes, emo/scene/neon/kawaii as hell, cool dance moves and effects/overlays, stuff that probably would have made me more popular and DEFINITELY wouldn't have worn in real life.

Who I really was on Meez:

Non-glitched, mostly wearing free or super cheap stuff because I barely had any coinz, weird outfit combos, no animations/effects (well, I remember I did have the falling hearts one and used basic/cheap dances), and still managing to look emo and wannabe as hell.

creds to this old meez blog i found with all these screenshots

[lunathewafflelord]

Lately I’ve been having a lot of dreams about JumpStart, which are very similar to the dreams I had during the time period between when Toontown had announced it was shutting down and before Rewritten became a thing.

In the dreams I’m playing the game after it shut down, it being a private server just for me, nobody else there, maybe a few glitched players, and the place feels slightly barren but it’s still how I remembered it. Then the world slowly starts falling apart, glitching more and more, before I’m kicked out.

I get many variations of this dream and they’re very nice dreams to have, being able to relive my memories of the game, but they’re also very sad at the same time.

I heard that there’s a fan server in development, and I’m definitely looking forward to it, but even with the fan server nothing can replace the character I spent a decade playing as. I had lifetime membership. I had 100%ed MarineLand, something that I haven’t seen any other players do (let me know if you’ve done this, I want to know how many other people got the exclusive shirt!). I had many Mythies which I loved very much and would draw and write stories about, I even had my very first Mythie SilverDiamond on my birthday cake one year.

I am just very sad that I never really got to say goodbye to the game, unlike with Toontown where I knew it was closing a month or so in advance. With Jumpstart, I had just gone to log in one day and found out it shut down. I had my suspicions it was going to shut down soon, not as many people played after the infamous Jumpee redesign. After a while the updates ended up ruining the game, first the player character redesign and then the dreaded update to raising Mythies. One of the last major updates before it shut down.

Will the fan server have the older version of the Enchanted Sanctuary, or will it have the crappy redesigned version? Will there be an option to have the original Jumpeez or will it just be the redesigned version? (If they manage to include both versions of the characters, I bet all of my jellybeans that 99.99% of the player base will choose the original)

I’m not sure what really is the point of this post, but I really wanted to just talk about how I’ve been feeling lately. Jumpstart was such an important part of my childhood, that losing it is almost WORSE than when I lost Toontown. Hard to believe that JS lasted more than twice as long as the original TTO! Perhaps when the fan server releases I’ll have new memories of the beloved game, and it might become even better than the original just like Toontown fan servers are.

While it’s sad that Jumpstart Online is gone, I’m looking forward to seeing what the fans will bring :)

[my-virtual-pearls]

Snowy Valley Cafe - OSN Railway, Nakiska

"Welcome to the Snowy Valley Cafe, the cozy voice chat coffee shop located on the OSNRailway! Stop by and enjoy a latte and a chat by the warm fire, or sit on our patios and watch the snow fall on the ice trains as they pass! Great friends & conversation!"

Land claimed January 4, 2024. Owned by Sashe Silver

[astrosoldweb]

SPARK CITY WORLD BY ALL GIRL ARCADE REWRITE WHEN????

[detached-enigma]

Detached - Santa....Baby... by Detached Enigma [Ai Venus Xorn-Canon] Via Flickr: Blog/Credits/Details: detachedenigmabloggersl.blogspot.com/2024/12/santababy.html PrimFeed: www.primfeed.com/aivenus.bunny BlueSky: bsky.app/profile/aivenuskouyama.secondlife.bio

[lifeland]

It's a travesty that today's children got fortnite instead of all the 00's-10's mmos. We had freedom/subscription models, their virtual world has microtransactions. And it's only one virtual world, rather than a practically INFINITE NUMBER