Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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Category: Games
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Click here on the Marketplace or go here in-world to start playing Forever Tourist a fun and fairly brilliant game with a simple adventurous premise: Explore designated locations throughout Second Life, find the kiosk in each, and collect a stamp on your travel passport, displayed as a HUD. Now with nearly 200 locations to visit…
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Here’s a huge and fun new update (SLurl to check it out) from The Really Useful Scripts Corner, a proud sponsoring partner of New World Notes — a major expansion to its Really Needy roleplay HUD (created in collaboration with top SL cosmetics brand Izzie’s): Visible, physical changes to your avatar body based on how…
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Here’s a fun new feature to the Really Needy HUD roleplay system from The Really Useful Scripts Corner, a proud sponsoring media partner to New World Notes: Jobs for avatars! (Watch above.) If you’re a Really Needy player (or want to try it out), you can play with the job system on the Really Needy…
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Click here to visit the 725th Street Bar, a ship-based food and drink establishment perfect for dates and other social get-togethers in SL — and which now serves food and drink compatible with the Really Needy HUD (a sponsoring partner to New World Notes), so that a meal consumed there fills the Hunger and Thirst…
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Adeon Writer, a virtual world explorer whose real world home base is Arizona, was recently searching for games to play in Second Life and found himself unable to access a Second Life region because it had been tagged has having Skill Games — i.e. a non-gambling game which has a L$ payout. (See above.) And…
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Here’s two new items from proud New World Notes sponsoring partner Really Useful Scripts Corner which effectively turn its Really Needy HUD roleplay tool into a combat system: The Injuries add-on for the HUD The new release of a sci-fi themed submachine gun that’s compatible with the HUD. Ably demonstrated by Really Useful’s lead developer…
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The Really Needy HUD system (a proud sponsoring media partner to New World Notes) just launched Season Two of its fitness contest, with the top three winners collecting L$2000 total in cash prizes, along with a free Really Luxurious Shower Cabin — go here to get started. A fun new way to explore Second Life…
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Click here to visit something fairly amazing in Second Life: A massive roleplay game world inspired by Mass Effect. It’s the creation of BluShock, a fan community that’s been creating entire worlds and experiences in Second Life based on the videogame franchise for over a decade. I recently made a small visit to the asteroid…
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There’s a new fitness game in the Really Needy HUD system (a proud sponsoring media partner to New World Notes) and it brings a fun new way of exploring and socializing in Second Life — basically, you earn points by doing physical activities through the virtual world. “You start at level 0, and by jogging…
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Click here to directly teleport to Bloodbath New Orleans, a perfect place to explore as October creeps up on Halloween. Star SL YouTuber Naria Panther (with a delicious, mood fitting Eastern European accent) and friends explore the place with a working streetcar, an eerie fair ground, and many gorgeously detailed Gothic edifices to creep through.
Wagner James Au / New World Notes 