Patterns Second Life

Nice article about @rodvik and #LindenLabs and #SecondLife and Creativity and STUFF!

As it happens, it’s my fifth rezday today, but the silly typist had some ridiculous singing practice thing and then was procrastinating on a web project. But hey, here’s another example of “good press” for Rod Humble, Linden Labs, Creatorverse, Patterns, and oh, yeah, Second Life. It makes perfect sense that Humble would wind up at Linden Lab, the company best known for the virtual world Second Life. It’s as successful a canvas for the…

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Patterns

Material properties for #LLPatterns and a few screenshots

I’m looking for information on the latest update of Linden Lab’s Patterns – for some reason screenshots were not working for me, where previously Steam has a hotkey of F12 that automatically sets up a screenshot and saves (in a kind of obscure folder) as private, or on their overlay console as a public shot. At the Patterns community forum, I ran across a discussion of materials testing that has been added to Wikia. Someone…

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Patterns Second Life

Major Upgrade Touted by @rodvik in interview. Does he mean other than Pathfinding? Mesh?

UPDATE: Linden Labs CEO Rod Humble commented on Inara Pey’s post on the new products and the “major upgrade” tease  – twice – and seems to be hinting that there may be more virtual worlds (the plural is deliberate) on the drawing board. It was kind of Inara to mention me for pointing to the Venture Beat article; the only reason I spotted it is merely the Power of The Google at work. More virtual…

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Patterns Second Life

#LindenLabs Update for #LLPatterns Thursday 18OCT with NEW SHAPES OOOH

Linden Labs announced a pending update to their Steam-based alpha game, Patterns. Our first update is right around the corner. We’re going to be updating to a bigger world, adding more shapes to find in the world and – based on your feedback – we’re adding the ability to place formations on your own creations as well as ours. We’re also fixing plenty of bugs. This won’t make Second Life Marketplace merchants happy, who’ve been…

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