I’ve recently been playing with an EmoterHUD – a device that allows me to animate the facial expressions of my avatar in Second Life – I believe this offers some very interesting possibilities for expression in role-playing scenarios as well as in regular SL interactions – the interface is still quite clunky to develop much […]
In response to a debate convened elsewhere about the nature of Second Life and the nature of games-based learning and the nature of role-play…. Interestingly, (to me) my PhD research project is entitled “Drama Teacher as Games Master: developing digital games-based process drama as performance” My goal is to take aspects of process drama, role-playing games and dramatic performance […]
In response to some of the recent coverage of Second Life in the Australian press I posted this: I think there are some unresolved issues about what Second Life is. Interestingly, many gamers (such as Tim who commented earlier) find that SL does not match their vision of WoW… they find the controls and interface […]
SLATENIGHT reports on some interesting performance events happening in Second Life. Border Art Slate Magazine: Second Life Arts Total Entertainment – Monday, 22 January 2007 © Slate Magazine: Second Life Arts Total Entertainment Shakespeare Comes To Second LIfe Slate Magazine: Second Life Arts Total Entertainment – Monday, 22 January 2007 © Slate Magazine: Second Life […]
Well, having solved some of my bandwidth issues (now I have 60Gb monthly limit!) I have been able to better use my time in Second Life and really started to establish a presence. SL is a real bandwidth slurper. Like many newbies I wandered aimlessly around the SL world seeing what I could see, and […]
  OK – finally have my little parcel of land upon which to develop the basics for part of the Interdisciplinary Practice unit I’m teaching at university this year and to accommodate some of my explorations for my research. You can find it over at Maceday 121,143, 152. It looks a bit like a […]