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Raycast World

A raycast world is a virtual environment in which all lighting calculations are made using raycasting. Raycasting is a fundamentally much less processor intensive variant of raytracing. Unlike raytracing, which traces light rays back to source, moving through any partially translucent, totally transparent or reflective objects along the way, raycasting does not take any level of transparency or reflection into account. Raycast worlds have no mirrors, no glass or shiny objects, but otherwise, they have the same benefits as raytracing.

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Resource List: A ... World
What senses are needed to make a world a world? Is it any less a world if we cannot see it, cannot smell it, cannot touch and taste it? At what point do we experience too few sensory inputs to judge a world a world?




World Review: Birdz World
World Review: Birdz World welcome screen
Birdz World is another world created by Switch In software. It is also their youngest world. Of the four virtual environments they make, this is one of the lesser ones. From first glance, it is obvious it has been created fairly rapidly from Switch In world?s libraries.
 
 





World Review: Marian's World
World Review: Marian\'s World welcome screen
Marian's world is a little bit of an oddity really. It is a world in which everyone is female, and tither stands about talking, walks and talks, or drives cars and talks. There's nowhere to actually drive cars to, as the entire world is a hilly, swampy island of about one half a square mile, with only three treehouse structures on it, yet everyone has a convertable sports car, and only one set of clothes.
 
 





World Review: PeaceCity 3D
World Review: PeaceCity 3D welcome screen
PeaceCity 3D is an ActiveWorlds codebase based social VR platform. A single graphical world with its own installation program ? rare for an ActiveWorlds world, it is 750 metres wide and five kilometres long. A rectangular world with blank space around it, this unusual shape immediately sets it apart from the pack.
 
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World Review: Sacred Seasons
World Review: Sacred Seasons welcome screen
Sacred Seasons is a gameworld. Designed and constructed using Flash, it attempts to show a cohesive world, using the MMO paradigm, and two dimensional graphics in an isometric-appearing world. Drawing cues from the BattleOn series of MMOs, this world is nothing special, instead being almost a checklist of every clich? and bad design decision in MMO history.
 
Rating 43.5
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Enabling Player-Created Online Worlds with Grid Computing and Streaming
The most popular model for modern MMOs is the shard model - small clusters of servers, each running a separate copy of the world, and each world mostly static. To have a truly dynamic world, with content galore, and experience without end, you need a different model. You need a single world, spread across countless servers...




World Review: SCRYmud
World Review: SCRYmud welcome screen
An unusual MUD, this one. Class-based, but utilises a class-less skills system, whereby what the creature has learnt before, determines what they can learn next. Not a RP world, but it has the single largest, and best implemented skill web seen so far in a virtual world.
 
 




The Numerati takes us into the deep dark world of data mining, a world familiar to any fan of cyberpunk novels, although all too real. A world where stray pieces of information, perhaps revealed by yourself over the net, are enough for someone to narrow down your home address.






World Review: Graal
World Review: Graal welcome screen
Graal is an oddity. If you have ever played the original Zelda games, then you will be familiar with what Graal is. This top-down 2D world system uses an almost infinite combination of square areas one and two screens wide, which slot together to form a world.
 
Rating 40.5
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Organized Roleplaying Events
Organising even a handful of players into a cohesive, functional group for a roleplayed event is a nightmare for any persistent world. However, if you are not running a gameworld, or alternate life world, but desire a one-shot roleplay event with whoever is in world at the time, you can. Here is how to set it up.



 

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(30/10/2008)
Within the next few months, according to Ashar Saeed, a vice president at Muxlim.com, the Internet will receive its first Muslim-themed virtual world, not unlike Second Life, complete with its own currency and culture.

Saeed ...


(01/11/2008)
On October 28th, Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. announced that the subscribership for World of Warcraft exceeded 11,000,000 for the first time.

World of Warcraft was recently launched in Russia and Latin America, and is current...


(12/05/2007)
Almost all the media hype of late has been for the social virtual world Second Life ? people seem to forget that many others exist, and have been around in various forms, for the better part of four decades.

Now, Mario Geros...


(04/10/2007)
Vodafone's latest service has just gone into beta testing - and it's only available to the odd inhabitants of Second Life. Vodafone Inside Out is an in-game mobile system, letting users call others in-world, and from the in-world phone to...


(21/08/2009)
Media group Future announced Thursday it has teamed up with videogame publisher Blizzard Entertainment to launch an official magazine about the hugely popular videogame "World of Warcraft."

Future said the subscription-only...