[lit-ideas] Re: Picks of the week
- From: JulieReneB@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 17:10:41 EDT
Ever read the book "God Game" by Greeley? It was before the kind of "gaming"
you're talking about.
Julie Krueger
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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
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> 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
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> 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
>
>
>
>
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> Sent: May 21, 2004 6:18 PM
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>
> 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
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> Date:5/21/2004 5:17:19 PM Central Daylight Time
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>
>
> > 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
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