My Second Life as Ecko Brown
I have recently started playing Second Life again. I had an account ages ago called Ecko Brown, so I just started playing that again.
That’s my avatar (in-game representation of myself) on the right. Not a great picture, but I’m not exactly a whiz on the screen capture tool in SL yet.
The main features of SL are: Chatting to other people from all over the world (mostly America), creating objects using primitive shapes (or prims) like squares, triangles, cylinders e.t.c. You can also create scripts to make your objects do things, like talk, move, or change how your avatar moves.
There are three main ways of travel. Walking/running, flying (every avatar can fly) or teleport. This makes travel to other areas in SL very easy. Teleporting is the most common form of travel, as there are several ways of doing so. You can access the map of the whole game world, and double-click to teleport anywhere. People can send you teleport invitations which take you to them. Some areas give you a notecard which, when double-clicked, takes you back to that area. The least common way is to have an object that teleports you somewhere, such as the area of its creation, creator, or character of your choice. This is uncommon because it takes a long time to make such an advanced object.
There are many areas for new avatars which have free objects like clothes, hair, textures for customizing objects, guns e.t.c. The two most common places are the Nix Bazaar and Oasis.
I am not a very experienced builder or coder, but I like to think that I help new avatars get started. I show them how to do simple camera controls, give them stuff for free (which I normally got for free), and occasionally charge a small fee for such freebies (thus making them feebies?). They normally do not pay however, so my avatar remains extremely poor.
A download link for Second Life is in the sidebar.
