Making virtual worlds : Linden Lab and Second Life

Making virtual worlds Linden Lab and Second Life

Introduction : a developer's-eye view -- The product : Second Life, capital, and the possibility of failure in a virtual world -- Tools of the gods -- Knowing the gamer from the game -- The birth of the cool -- Precarious authority -- Appendix A. The Tao of Linden -- Appendix B. The mission of...

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1. Verfasser: Malaby, Thomas M. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Ithaca, N.Y. u.a. Cornell University Press 2009
Schlagworte:
Linden Lab (Firm) > Linden Lab > Firm > Shared virtual environments > Computer games > Design > Business anthropology > Corporate culture > Second Life (Game) > Social aspects > Case studies > California > Second Life > Computerspiel > Computerspielindustrie
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Zusammenfassung:Introduction : a developer's-eye view -- The product : Second Life, capital, and the possibility of failure in a virtual world -- Tools of the gods -- Knowing the gamer from the game -- The birth of the cool -- Precarious authority -- Appendix A. The Tao of Linden -- Appendix B. The mission of Linden Lab.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:X, 165 S.
Ill.
22cm
ISBN:0801447461
0-8014-4746-1
9780801447464
978-0-8014-4746-4