{"id":3865,"date":"2007-03-31T18:10:20","date_gmt":"2007-04-01T01:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2007\/03\/31\/3865.html"},"modified":"2007-03-31T18:10:20","modified_gmt":"2007-04-01T01:10:20","slug":"second-life-terraforming-overs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2007\/03\/31\/second-life-terraforming-overs\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Life, terraforming, Oversight, ARG?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It seems that <a href=\"http:\/\/xcentric.com\/about\/\">Jason Stoddard<\/a>'s company, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centric.com\/\">Centric<\/a>, has offices in <a href=\"http:\/\/secondlife.com\/\">Second Life<\/a> (as well as in the real world). Recently, a company called Winfinity (which grew out of Oversight, as featured in various of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangehorizons.com\/Archive.alt.pl?Dept=all&Stng=Jason+Stoddard&Sort=chron&Catx=\">Jason's stories at <cite>Strange Horizons<\/cite><\/a> and <cite>Interzone<\/cite>) seems to have <a href=\"http:\/\/xcentric.com\/2007\/03\/31\/a-reason-for-writers-to-get-their-asses-to-second-life\/\">taken over Centric's Second Life region<\/a> with a terraforming project called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discovermanoa.com\/\">Manoa<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Winfinity people are offering a reward of 100,000 Linden dollars (the Second Life currency) for information about the causes of the cost overruns on the Manoa Development Project.<\/p>\n<hr width=\"25%\" \/>\n<p>I'm not privy to details, but I'm guessing that this is essentially an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alternate_reality_game\">Alternate Reality Game<\/a> set partly in Second Life, and tied in with Jason's forthcoming <cite>Interzone<\/cite> story \"Far Horizon.\" (Also note that the \"development ship El Dorado\" mentioned on the Discover Manoa page shares a name with the starship that appears in Jason's <cite>SH<\/cite> stories \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangehorizons.com\/2005\/20050912\/exception-f.shtml\">Exception<\/a>\" and \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangehorizons.com\/2004\/20040913\/revision-f.shtml\">Revision<\/a>.\" Given that Jason's <cite>IZ<\/cite> stories may not quite fit into the same timeline as his <cite>SH<\/cite> stories, I'm not sure it's the same starship, but I figured the connection was worth mentioning.)<\/p>\n<p>For more info and links, see <a href=\"http:\/\/eclipticplane.blogspot.com\/2007\/03\/interdimensional-intrusions.html\">Jetse's blog entry<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/ttapress.com\/forum\/viewtopic.php?t=111\">Jetse's post on the <cite>IZ<\/cite> forum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I'm not on Second Life, and I don't have time to explore this. But I'm definitely intrigued by it, and I like Jason's writing and worldbuilding, and I like the idea of an interlinked set of web pages, Second Life stuff, and fiction.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently solutions should be submitted via the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discovermanoa.com\/submit\/\">Data Submission page<\/a> between June 1 and June 30, 2007. I'm not sure what criteria they'll use to determine who gets the prize if there are multiple correct answers.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that Jason Stoddard&#8217;s company, Centric, has offices in Second Life (as well as in the real world). Recently,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}