New World SLurl: The Giger-esque Island of Omega Point

If you're a fan of H.R. Giger, the Swiss surrealist who brought the spoogey and carbuncled extraterrestrial world of Alien to life, you'll love visiting Omega Point, a beautifully, ornately morbid island that seems like an otherworldly metropolis of an unknown civilization. 

[Direct SLurl teleport to Omega Point at this link.]

It's the creation of Sweetlemon Jewell, a Japanese Resident, who says she built it over a two month period.  (Here's her blog.)  Despite its high quality, Ms. Jewell tells me via a translator device, she's not a game developer. 

"I am not a professional designer," she tellls me in IM. "As for me, SL is a hobby."  In fact, she adds modestly, "I am disappointed with it."  (And there I must disagree.)

Why'd she build it?

"I love SF and fantasy," she says. "I overflow in my head in such worlds."  She created it for exploration and shopping (there are thematic kiosks) and open-ended roleplaying, "but there is not the strict rule" around that.  When I visited, there didn't seem to be many regular clientele, but when gamers discover it, I can easily see it becoming, say, a great aliens-versus-Marines battlezone, ala Natural Selection.

How'd I first discover Omega Point, an island from a Japanese Second Life Resident?  As is often the case in such a global metaverse, across yet another communication barrier: on Tinas Universum, a Swedish-language Second Life blog.

Comments

[Sanny Yoshikawa]

...and now I discovered Omega Point on New World Notes.

[Burgundy Mirajkar]

I've been there a couple of times in the past week, and it's already one of my favorite sims. It's an absolutely stunning place. I'd be glad that it was profiled here if it didn't make it less of a best-kept "secret." :)

[Harper Ganesvoort]

Agreed with Burgundy; this build is absolutely marvelous. Some of the places in here really do remind me of Giger's Necronom book, which I believe was the ancestral beginning of the Alien from the film series.

[Caliburn Susanto]

Gorgeous. And a great place to play with WindLight. Very impressive.