Well, it was not two days after I post a listing of thanks to my SL friends that they end up finding a way to bring Telador back – after a fashion…
It’s now called ‘Myst Online Uru’ island (I guess it hit the 20 character limit). Last notice I got from group D’ni was that it will open in a couple days – Almost in sync with the Grand Opening in the real MOUL. I need to check and send a note along to Hamlet if needed. :)
As I speculated (via Alan) in the IC Journal, this may be a way for Turner/GameTap to allow access to more international players (in particular, those that can’t have access to Uru at all since UU was shutdown last week – for whatever reason).
I obviously am placing my feet firmly back into Second Life due to this, though I will not back out of marching for the Parade next month.
I’m asking myself now – what can come of having an island in SL?
1) The Age Building groups have the possibility – via libsecondlife – to create ‘rough 3d sketches’ using the primitives system in SL and import them to Blender for finishing. I’m following the possibility to export an entire sim’s worth of data for conversion into a near-finished Age.
2) In SL tradition, we’ll have one of the more interesting SL cross-world events to occur. Normally that’s between SL and RL. In this case it could be between SL and D’ni.
3) I once again have a reason to be a walking, free promotion of Uru within SL. :)
We will have to see…
–TSK