Like the drum 'n' bassy orchestral cinematics of the recent three or four James Bond films, crisp dynamics flow in, blaring horns (not as brassy as the ones in "Battle Without Honor or Humanity") meet the string swells of the 50s and the choppy b-b-beats of the 90s. It's old, it's new, and it's like Darwinia. I haven't played it yet, but it inspired me to wonder what SL might look like with some of the graphical touch.
These pictures, by virtue of fakeosity, are but mockups. But they point to a promising future. While I don't play Neocron, I like certain aspects of that game: the aesthetic regime and the color schemes, and that's about it. HackNet is a pretty cool idea. In SL, we don't have layered worlds within worlds. Not OoAE?Out of Avatar Experiences. Yet!
I feel limited at times. Being in one physical location at once. I would like to, technology willing, be able to astral project myself and fly even more like a spirit through SL. Or go into splitscreen mode with two of me at different locations, without having to expend inefficient overhead. I'd like to be able to control bots and see through their eyes, even if they only saw them in shades of green, and send them to the bottom of SL's answer to Challenger Deep.
Before more fancythings in SL, more effective implementations of some basic, core, fundamental features are a top priority to me. Have you noticed how much text input lags when graphics do too? I wish I could type fluidly, even if the rest of the screen goes at 2-3 FPS. Multithread? My duel with Instant Messaging is an ongoing thread. Since there was a time when adventures on the computer were solely text, some much-needed focus on that base layer would make the rest of the house that much more solid. We did get chat bubbles (and if you use them, raise your hand!), but there's a lot of very eat/sleep/you-know-what essentials still missing. For now.
Jeffrey Ventrella made his first post on the SL Forums!
O, if there's anyone who owns an island who wants a great cityscape in SL, please don't hesitate to contact Jeht Pacer. He made what you see here, and rezzes it in the sandbox just about every day. (Gets wiped twice daily.) He hasn't explicitly said he wants his art installed on a more permanent fixture, but beautiful metropolitan areas in SL are a rarity. There are exceptional artists inworld who don't even care all that much about the L$$$?they just want their creations to have a home, even if they don't say it?and I'm hoping we'll see a renaissance in here of wealthy patrons with exquisite tastes who wish to show off. And I mean this in the best of ways!
And that's when I smiled to myself and said, "PRIMATRONS!"