This is a very fun loosey goosey chat on the gaming podcast Colette & Matt Have Entered the Chat, perfect listening for Friday and the weekend. Since we're all gamers, we get into many topics I haven't discussed as much in other interviews, such as (roughly in this order):
- How gaming's modding community brought me to Second Life.
- How Second Life launched as an MMO competitor to The Sims Online.
- How Cory Ondrejka helped bring Facebook into Metaverse (and becoming Meta).
- The early gaming communities of Second Life.
- Connecting early Second Life and incidents like the War of the Jessie Wall and the creation of Fortnite.
- The cultural tensions that led to Second Life being a game that's not a game (and vice versa).
- Is the Metaverse for everyone? (Spoiler: Not so much, at least not yet.)
- How do you get started in Second Life? (Spoiler: Get a powerful computer and find a friend who's already an SLer to guide you.)
- My own favorite recent games (which tend to be single-player) including the seriously cool strategy game Fights in Tight Spaces.
And much more!
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