Wagner James Au / New World Notes

Well, maybe next door to Linden Lab on 940 Battery Street in SF, for the low low price of 31,500 UPX.

This is Upland, a new virtual real estate acquisition game — sorta Monopoly meets the real world, where virtual land is registered on the EOS blockchain — and as it happens, is the first paying customer for Linden Lab's Tilia payment service:

Linden Lab created the digital payment and wallet functions (also called Tilia) for its Second Life, which supports annual commerce of about $500 million per year. The residents of that virtual world can create digital objects and sell them to each other. Now Tilia will be implemented in the Monopoly-like Upland, which is available on iOS and Android. [Also on the web – WJA]

The Upland game uses blockchain — the decentralized, secure, and transparent digital ledger — to verify ownership of the digital properties that its users buy in its virtual world, which is an overlay on the real world. To handle the money transactions, Uplandme turned to Linden Lab’s Tilia, which has a digital wallet and transaction system that enables players to trade virtual properties for fiat currency (real-world money, such as the U.S. dollar, as opposed to cryptocurrency).

So with Sansar sold, this is Linden Lab's other revenue stream besides Second Life. Far as gameplay, it's not something I'm personally into, but then again I was always heavily preferred Risk, to Monopoly. Gameplay video below:

Now, dear reader, who wants in?