2014 WRITE: The writing communities of virtual worlds: Nara's Nook

The writing communities of virtual worlds:  
Nara's Nook
Scroll down for News and Notes (including articles about new TOS)

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The overall goal is to build community across the borders of our hypergrid worlds while we are building stories to entertain the citizens of the metaverse
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Nara's Nook entry point

• Hypergrid address: world.narasnook.com:8900:Greyville
• Paste into the search bar of your world map, click find, click teleport 
• NARA'S NOOK
• How to visit the Greyville colony

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Arrival point

• Hypergrid Stories Project Launches

• The red sign is a walk-in teleport to the Writers of Greyville Exhibition.
• Writer's of Greyville Poetry Exhibition: Featuring Tracy Olmstead
• If you go there, get back to the Greyville arrival point this way:
• Open world map (Ctrl+m)
• Type Greyville in the Search bar
• Click Find
• Click teleport 

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NPC Maker
The blue box labelled "gift for visitors" carries a script that makes a non-player character that duplicates the avatar that clicks on its object.  The duplicate is animated by whatever animation is in the object.  
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Daily chats

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• Hypregrid Stories Project: Building Community Across Virtual Worlds

Author Gazebos

Authors have gazebos with:

• Posters that describe their work.  
• Walk-in hypergates that take visitors to the author's workshop
• Links to a marketing page (such as Amazon)

Stephanie Mesler's gazebo

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Stephanie Mesler is Frieda Frostbite in Kitely
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Direct link to Amazon

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Writings on display

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Walk around the place

Find some reads

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Second life outpost for Nara's Nook

• Location Link. Click to go or drag to the viewer screen: 
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Karpov/171/100/200

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News and Notes

Events in the virtual worlds  

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Contests and dated calls/invitations

The Journal of Virtual Studies currently has a call for papers open.  The journal is peer reviewed and focuses on the use of virtual spaces for knowledge immersion.  Do you work or research in Second Life,  OpenSim or any other virtual platform?  Have you been engaged in research, exploration or reflection when using MMPORG’s?  Have you discovered a virtual space with knowledge immersion possibilities or have you engaged in a fascinating new way to explore the virtual through any number of immersive online applications?    

These and many other questions are explored by the JoVS.  The Fall 2014 issue is expected to publish in September.  For details, see here: Journal of Virtual Studies 

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• RezMela in Kitely: Simulations for disaster response training, and contests!
• Deadline: Sunday August 31st 2014, 11 pm EDT
• Photography Contest: prizes: $50, $30, $20
• Machinima Contest:  prizes: $250, $110, $40

• Transcending Borders: Launch of UWA Art & Film Challenges with L$1.03 Mil in Prizes

The theme is 'TRANSCENDING BORDERS.' Artists & filmmakers can interpret the theme as they see fit. Whether transcending borders between time and space, past and present, one nation and another, one language and another, a culture or civilisation or any other of the innumerable borders that present themselves as we navigate our lives. You the artist... You the machinimatographer...You decide.

Entries Close at Midnight SLT 31st October 2014. Winner will be announced in December 2014.   First entries 

News, new TOS, Google and pseudonyms

• Presentation on new TOS at SL Bar Association 8/2/2014
• Second Life TOS (probably) relinquishes its claims on your creations. Finally!
• CG Textures still say no
• Crap Mariner on the Second Life ToS Controversy

• Google+ becomes friendly to virtual names and pseudonyms 

Events 

• PARADISE LOST RETURNS FOR A SECOND SEASON: TICKETS ON SALE NOW
• Happenings on the Hypergrid
• Kitely Events Calendar

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Newcomer Help in Virtual Worlds. 

• New to Kitely? New to Opensim? Start at the U
• Beginner's building on the Hypergrid. Primland, the building tutorial game
• UWA offers free online courses to help newcomers start in virtual worlds
• New Citizens Inc
• Table of Contents (Virtual Outworlding)
• Multilingual help: Welcome ports and Google Translate

Education

• How the Second Life basics series can help teachers
• SLeducate: Learn and teach in Second Life

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Video-Machinima in virtual worlds

• New Media Arts, Inc
• SUMMARY: Resources for video production in virtual worlds
• Videos from virtual worlds Summary 
• Hobbies: Doing video/machinima in virtual worlds
• Music Videos from virtual worlds Summary 
• Art videos from the virtual world
• Comedy videos from the Virtual World

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• For more on topics like this, circle Selby Evans in Google+ 
• What do we do in Virtual Worlds? 
• Kitely: low cost virtual worlds.
• Opensim, Hypergrid: Summary
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• Annotated screen shots made with Jing
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• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Cookie/136/100/22
• Feel free to send me an IM, notecard, or friend request in Second LIfe or Kitely
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• Google+ page;  Virtual World Video
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