Goth in a Box: Roleplay Goes Prefab
Lately I've been impressed by the rising quality of SL builds, not just from individual creators, but in mass-produced, prefab homes sold on Second Life's open market. Where this was once utterly dominated by generic "McMansions" more fitting to a real world gated community, there seems to be a trend toward mood and roleplay, homes dripping with subculture signifiers. Fornicola Butuzova recently showed me this pre-fab he sells with Amo Lambeau, for example-- "Castle Gothos" comes with a working gate, sooty fireplace, and trap doors, and was lovingly constructed, the ad copy boasts, with "light-traced contextual texturing". It sells for L$9999-- a little under $40 for a home you could invite your fellow vampires to with pride. As a value proposition, it's a bit like wandering into Target and buying a blood-encrusted battle ax designed by Michael Graves.
Hamlet, I know it's goth, but turn a light (or a gamma slider) up in that pic, won't ya? ;p
Posted by: Elle Pollack | Wednesday, January 23, 2008 at 07:13 AM
It's like a Thief level, you have to turn off all your lights to see what's going on. :)
Posted by: Hamlet Au | Wednesday, January 23, 2008 at 02:59 PM