That virtual community (previous message) may have been one of the Everquest games, created by a company called Verant (in San Diego), which was bought out by Sony Corp. in 2000, when Verant landed a contract with the US Dept of Defense to develop war scenarios. Think I mentioned this on lit-id a while back. Hollywooders who went into multimedia were bragging like mad. Finally, something of "real" importance, and all that. Everquest was quite profitable and popular, internationally, as a subscriber-only game played in real-time, as of 2000. There wasn't a God mode, per se, but I haven't seen version developed since 2000. Of course, Everquest/Verant/Sony didn't have a lock on the war/destruction/strategic games market, even then. I noted yesterday that my local Blockbuster Video has turned over half its space to Gaming. (Godding?) Carol ----- Original Message ----- From: <JulieReneB@xxxxxxx> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, May 22, 2004 10:43 AM Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Picks of the week > My kiddo has a game, I think it's called Tycoon, where you start with a void > and create your own land masses, countries, cities, down to the individual > characters. It has "God mode" where you can blast away in destruction as much of > it as you want by lightening bolts, hurricanes, tornados, etc. I was a > little unnerved by how fun I found God mode to be. > Julie Krueger > ========Original Message======== > Subj:[lit-ideas] Re: Picks of the week > Date:5/22/2004 8:42:47 AM Central Daylight Time > From:aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > To:lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent on: > > A while back I read, I think in the Wall Street Journal, about a "virtual > community" of some type that seems to be catching on on the internet. It seemed > something like this only more. In that virtual city or town or whatever it > was you create a character, then that character lives out a life at your > direction, interacting with other virtual characters that others direct. I vaguely > remember thinking "Simpsons" at the time, so it may have Simms. Has anybody > heard of this? > > > Andy > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: JulieReneB@xxxxxxx > Sent: May 21, 2004 6:18 PM > To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Picks of the week > > If it's full, it will connect you "anonymously" which means your charachter > is ghostly greyed-out and can't speak, but you can still tour the room and > see > what it's like. > Julie > ========Original Message======== > Subj:[lit-ideas] Re: Picks of the week > Date:5/21/2004 5:17:19 PM Central Daylight Time > From:andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx > To:lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent on: > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <JulieReneB@xxxxxxx> > > > > and, for the most Surreal ....the world's first 3-D internet Church..... > oh > > do go in and take a look at what your "character" can do (just right click > for > > options!)... ( you go to www.shipoffools.com (sic), then click on "for > > blessing" and it takes you here): > > it was full when i tried it. > > yrs, > andreas > www.andreas.com > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, > digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, > digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, > digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, > digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html > ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html