Night at the Races
I was looking for a Second Life car and found the Silver Motorsports Complex. There’s a complete race track with a pit, a drag strip, cars and custom choppers for sale, grandstands, and lots more. A couple of kids were driving their new Mustangs around. I happened to have a Flintstone-mobile in my inventory, so I rezzed it (created an instance, for you OO guys) onto the track and had some fun:
That’s me in the background. Clearly the babes favored the guy with the cooler car, instead of the sharp dressed man.
The latency inherent in the server-based physics model of Second Life made driving a really challenging experience. There was a visiting 4 year old sitting next to me in real life and he found it fascinating and kept asking me questions.
Here’s a followup picture that I took this morning (after I changed into some cooler clothes):
Laugh all you want, but this stuff is loads of fun, and it will be mainstream before too long.
Nice flintstonemobile. Hopefully (from what you said) the graphics and physics in the game will mature as time goes on. I have a lot of hope for that game.
Comment by jon — 3/30/2007 @ 10:22 pm