HG Safari, week 119 Nara Nook,
the writers colony on the hypergrid.
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the writers colony on the hypergrid.
HG Safari gathers weekly to visit virtual places on the hypergrid. This week, we visited the writers colony on Nara Nook. A place where writers get together to talk about writing, the Future of Fiction, and to work on the development of immersive fiction.
We gathered at Nara Nook
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- Most of the people came as characters from books.
- So look closely at the pictures and see who you can recognize.
- I came as Thinkerer Melville, a character appearing in many pictures in my blog.
- HG Safari blog
Go there on the Hypergrid
- Put the HG address in the World Map in the Find bar, Click Find. TP
- HG Address: world.narasnook.com:8900:greyville
- Once in greyville, use the World Map to findStorybookland
- (More after the break, scroll down!)
Metaverse events, current and upcoming
- OSHG: Exploratory project by NMA: Future of Open-Source Virtual Worlds
- 10th Annual Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education. March 29–April 1, 2017. Call for proposals
- Mal Burns: Inworld Review
- Try a browser-based virtual world
- Selby's daily news collection: Virtual worlds are real
- Events on the Hypergrid: HYPEvents
- Entertainment on the Hypergrid
- HYPERGRID EVENTS
- Destination guide: OpenSimWorld
- Opensim AAM Virtual Performers
- Sign of the Kite
- WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
- In a virtual world, your deodorant never fails.
Who is this?
- Hint: She is better known for performances outside of books
Watson has obviously not been here
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A gathering of characters
Other trips by HG Safari
- Hypergrid Safari visits Dorena's World
- Araucana, exiles of the galaxy, HG safari. Sight-seeing on the Hypergrid
- NPCS and Holoscenes in OpenSim. Report from the HG Safari
- Digital Lisbon by Carlos Loff. Maybe visit real Lisbon this year?
- Exploring the Hypergrid: tours, destinations, addresses, communication.
- Kitely Merchant Fair 2015!!! Oct . 18-Nov 1, 2015
- Scripting Showcase Trail, Acryline Erin
- Yellow Submarine: a walk in Pepperland
- Pepperland II, Yellow Submarine, surrealism, installation art in a 3D virtual world
A place for the meetings of writers
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Nara's posters bring the characters onstage
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Nara uses non-player characters (NPCs)
- NPCs look like regular avatars and can be animated.
- Each slide in a slide-show can rezz NPCs
- How to make dancing cows and other tales of the NPCs
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We gather for a picture
- In storybook land
The Little Engine that Could
- I am glad to ride him
- He is one of my favorite characters.
- Some people think they can.
- Some people think they can't,
- They are probably both right.
- Quick Quotes about risk
Guess the story
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A collection of fabled characters
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The rabbit hole
- Where can a rabbit hole lead?
A famous tea-party
- Yeah, that's the mad hatter
- Trivia question: Why was it fitting to speak of a mad hatter?
- The Hatter
Curiouser and curiouser
- (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English)
This tea party is impossible!
- But I completely believe it,
- Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
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News and Notes
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The Hypergrid WIP Show
The Hypergrid WIP is a one hour "show & tell" of works in progress or recently completed. Everyone is invited. Building, scripting, promotion, entertainment-- whatever you are working on.
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Presentations are in voice and text. For text presentations, best bring the text in a notecard and paste it into chat. Voice presentations may be captured in video. Stills and videos from the show may appear in this blog and elsewhere.
The Hypergrid WIP is a one hour "show & tell" of works in progress or recently completed. Everyone is invited. Building, scripting, promotion, entertainment-- whatever you are working on.
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Presentations are in voice and text. For text presentations, best bring the text in a notecard and paste it into chat. Voice presentations may be captured in video. Stills and videos from the show may appear in this blog and elsewhere.
Next WIP show
- Next WIP show: Sun. Nov.27, Noon SLT
- Cookie II location (fourth Sunday of the month)
- HG address below: paste into the World Map next to Find. Click Find, TP
- grid.kitely.com:8002:Cookie II
- in Kitely: paste into Nav (top) bar of Firestorm, Enter.
- hop://grid.kitely.com:8002/Cookie II/68/369/22
- Narasnook location (second Sunday of the month)
- Pandora allows presenters to run high threat OSSL functions.
- world.narasnook.com:8900
- Put the line above in your World Map next to Find. Click Find. TP
- At Narasnook, use World Map to search for Pandora
- Cookie II location (fourth Sunday of the month)
- HG address below: paste into the World Map next to Find. Click Find, TP
- grid.kitely.com:8002:Cookie II
- in Kitely: paste into Nav (top) bar of Firestorm, Enter.
- hop://grid.kitely.com:8002/Cookie II/68/369/22
- Next WIP show: Sun. Nov.27, Noon SLT
- Cookie II location (fourth Sunday of the month)
- HG address below: paste into the World Map next to Find. Click Find, TP
- grid.kitely.com:8002:Cookie II
- in Kitely: paste into Nav (top) bar of Firestorm, Enter.
- hop://grid.kitely.com:8002/Cookie II/68/369/22
- Narasnook location (second Sunday of the month)
- Pandora allows presenters to run high threat OSSL functions.
- world.narasnook.com:8900
- Put the line above in your World Map next to Find. Click Find. TP
- At Narasnook, use World Map to search for Pandora
- Cookie II location (fourth Sunday of the month)
- HG address below: paste into the World Map next to Find. Click Find, TP
- grid.kitely.com:8002:Cookie II
- in Kitely: paste into Nav (top) bar of Firestorm, Enter.
- hop://grid.kitely.com:8002/Cookie II/68/369/22
Previous Articles from the WIP show
- WIP Show: How to with NPC, Nara Malone. Storytelling of the future
- WIP on Cookie II, Kitely, 9/20 Dolls, Discos, and Discussion
- WIP August 23, A conversation about being creative
- The WIP show, 7/18/2015: Virtual mobile art by Lucy Afarensis
- WIP Show at Hobo Sandbox on Cookie II, Kitely
- WIP Show, works in progress on the Hypergrid June 3, 2015
- Hypergrid WIP meeting. The creatives of the hypergrid
- WIP Show: How to with NPC, Nara Malone. Storytelling of the future
- WIP on Cookie II, Kitely, 9/20 Dolls, Discos, and Discussion
- WIP August 23, A conversation about being creative
- The WIP show, 7/18/2015: Virtual mobile art by Lucy Afarensis
- WIP Show at Hobo Sandbox on Cookie II, Kitely
- WIP Show, works in progress on the Hypergrid June 3, 2015
- Hypergrid WIP meeting. The creatives of the hypergrid
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- Entertainment on the Hypergrid, a G+ community
- HYPERGRID EVENTS
- Hypergrid Destinations
- Hypergrid-related articles in this blog
- Entertainment on the Hypergrid, a G+ community
- HYPERGRID EVENTS
- Hypergrid Destinations
- Hypergrid-related articles in this blog
HG links-- depending on your interests
- Hypergrid Tour 2016-01-- 167 virtual worlds
- Sign of the Kite
- Events on the Hypergrid: HYPEvents
- Best metaverse communities
- Top avatar outfitters on the hypergrid
- Arcadia Asylum All Around
- G+ community: Hypergrid Safari
- G+ community: Metaverse Tours
- Opensimworld. Destination guide for the Hypergrid
- Hypergrid Tour 2016-01-- 167 virtual worlds
- Sign of the Kite
- Events on the Hypergrid: HYPEvents
- Best metaverse communities
- Top avatar outfitters on the hypergrid
- Arcadia Asylum All Around
- G+ community: Hypergrid Safari
- G+ community: Metaverse Tours
- Opensimworld. Destination guide for the Hypergrid
Radio in the virtual world
- OpenSimWorkingRadioStreams (OSWRS). Invited article by shawnkmaloney
- Aviation radio: Music to fly by. And to promote your aviation event.
- Radio for your place - Radio for the metaverse. Anyone for podcasts?
Metaverse beginner help
- NMA entry path
- How to Enter Kitely Virtual Worlds
- Metaverse 101 Info
+ Tutorials for getting started in Opensim
- Fr43k Paine/Dealing With Griefers
- A Dimension Beyond
- Virtual Outworlding Table of Contents. Summary
- Newcomer help in virtual worlds
- Virtual worlds are about people. Communities, communication, shared goals
- Time conversion: put time/zone into Google search to get your time
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- I publish 5 or 6 days a week, skipping 1 or 2 days in midweek
- For more on topics like this, follow Selby Evans in Google+
- What do we do in Virtual Worlds?
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- Put site:virtualoutworlding.blogspot.com at the end of the search terms
- Annotated screen shots made with Jing
- All original content on this blog is Creative Commons License, attribution only.
- Second Life, Linden, SLurl, and SL are trademarks of Linden Research Inc.
- This blog is not affiliated with Second Life or anything else.
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- Selby Evans in Kitely, Thinkerer Melville in Second Life
- Lauren is funny
- I publish 5 or 6 days a week, skipping 1 or 2 days in midweek
- For more on topics like this, follow Selby Evans in Google+
- What do we do in Virtual Worlds?
- Google search this blog: Search bar, upper left--or:
- Put site:virtualoutworlding.blogspot.com at the end of the search terms
- Annotated screen shots made with Jing
- All original content on this blog is Creative Commons License, attribution only.
- Second Life, Linden, SLurl, and SL are trademarks of Linden Research Inc.
- This blog is not affiliated with Second Life or anything else.
- Ads are from Google.
- Selby Evans in Kitely, Thinkerer Melville in Second Life
- Lauren is funny
Very creative review and article. Love how you ask questions... ie. "Who is this?" "Guess the Story" The Little Engine that Could is also one of my favorites and I must of read it to my own children 1000+ times. Thanks Selby ! HUGS Sun
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