MadPea, which is probably the most well-known game studio in Second Life, recently announced that they're also going to be developing content in High Fidelity:
To date, MadPea has produced a staggering anthology of more than 80 interactive experiences in Second Life, alone. Now, it’s time to take a step into a new direction and we’re delighted to announce that we’re expanding to a new platform and joining High Fidelity’s Pioneers of VR program to produce exciting new content in VR.
The move isn't entirely surprising, as the studio has reported difficulty making major, cost-effective projects in SL. MadPea joins Blueberry, a well-known SL brand which is also shifting some focus to HF.
"We're very interested in exploring new platforms and spreading our legume legion as far as we can, but Second Life will always be our main base of operations," MadPea's Kiana Writer assures me. "We'll continue to develop, create and imagine all sorts of wicked and wonderful things for Second Life no matter if we're working in HiFi or any other virtual world."
That said, she has high goals for Philip Rosedale's new virtual world:
"We're very hopeful that High Fidelity is going to be a big hit. It has so much potential and really embraces the future of gaming with its focus on virtual reality, so we're sure to be involved in it for a long time to come."
Her advise for other content creators interested in launching in HF:
"[J]oin the forums and wander around in-world seeing what amazing creations are already there, as well as talking to the people working on them. They are all very friendly and more than happy to give you help, suggestions or tips and it will really show you what High Fidelity is all about."
For that matter, get in touch with me too, I'd love to know what you've got planned: wjamesau at gmail dot com
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I wish someone who is not easily pleased or wowed simply by the very idea of VR headset virtual reality would point me to one of these "amazing creations" in Hi Fidelity. I honestly do not mean to cause offence to anyone, but when I visit HF all I see is stuff that resembles SL as it was some years back, which was already out of date, and worse than that, the place is pretty much empty. I honestly wish it was the next big thing, I am seriously right now looking for a new social Virtual space to begin again after SL, but HF just seems a long way off at the moment, and in a very short space of time it is going to have it's work cut out not to get steamrollered by Sansar.
Posted by: JohnC | Tuesday, September 20, 2016 at 10:53 PM
@JohnC The resemblance is due to the newness of HF's technologies and tools. To make a rather crude analogy, suppose someone gave you an extremely advanced car that could do things no other car could do. But suppose the steering wheel had been replaced by a pair of joysticks. It would take you a bit of time and learning to drive it better than a regular, old car even, let alone show off its true potential.
So to the outside observer, they might see this advanced car being poorly driven and think, "Well, what's so amazing about that?" to which the reply is, give it time. :)
Posted by: Cell | Thursday, September 22, 2016 at 10:07 AM