2014 PEOPLE: HELP: Role playing tools, immersive writing, encounter boxes

Role playing tools, immersive writing, encounter boxes
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3D places in a box.  Scenes for immersion.
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Diner

• Role playing
• Storytelling in the scene
• Language learning.  See, name, talk about. 
• Video production
• Improvisation practice.  Support your imagination
• Writing.  Use the scene for ideas 

A few of the scenes

• Diner
• Hospital
• Police station
• Rope bridge
• Sheriff's office
• Space ship, command deck
• Treasure chamber
• Slow boat to china
• Western town, main street
• Train in a western scene
• and lots more

Get 'em here for Second Life

• Mint Encounter Boxes (Second Life Market)

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Hospital

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She is refusing treatment!

• Mint Encounter Boxes (Web)  

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Police station

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You are under arrest.  Breaking into a jail is a felony.  

• Rezz 'em on your land.
• Rezz 'em in a sandbox.
• Rezz 'em  on group land (if you have rezz rights).

Rope bridge

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This is the tourist attraction?  
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Sheriff's office

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Looking for the sheriff?  Sorry, she is not in right now.  Target practice.
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Mint Entertainment is making hundreds of Encounter Boxes, covering many genres: 

• Medieval
• Fantasy
• Sci-Fi
• Old West
• Steampunk
• Gothic
• Modern
• Cyberpunk
• Victorian
• Near Future  

Space ship, command deck

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Captain, I have a personal matter to discuss..
Sorry, I can't see you now.
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Treasure chamber

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All I found here was a credit card.
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Old freighter 

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Mr. Moto?  What is he doing here?  
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Western town, main street

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Sorry, podner.  This is Starbuck's. All we sell is coffee.    
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Train in a western scene

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Sorry, honey, but we're out of steam.  We'll just have to park here for a while.  But let's get comfortable and make the best of it.

Scene in a box: some of the benefits of a holodeck

• Save space with a holodeck
• English as a second Language. Virtlantis and the holodeck

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