My First Time to Explore Second Life

My First Time to Explore Second Life

       It is pretty interesting that I could play an online game in a college course. Second Life is a virtual world that players can interact with others with their avatars. 

Figure 1: The Home Page of Second Life

Most of games I prefer to play are 2D, so I did not get use to 3D functions of Second Life in the beginning. It was not a big problem. After I logged in the game, a guy asked me to join their Vampire group. I was surprised but accepted. He teleported me to somewhere I did not remember, becoming one of their members, well, before which, I was stupid to open a HUD. I did not know what HUD means when he asked me to open the HUD. I tried again and again, but what the avatar did is to hold a box in hands, which sounds funny, right? Later he taught me that I should drag the HUD on the ground, and then open it to wear. Alright, I did not understand why the designer made so many confusing stuffs. The progress of teaching lasted more than ten minutes. I felt embarrassed to be a troublemaker. Fortunately, I did learn how to open a HUD.

When we finished our exploration, Emma led us to go around our home—the territory we have in this semester, also taking some snapshots as Figre 2 and 3. Our mission in this semester is to build something and do play. I do not know how hard or easy it is. What I knew from my first time to explore Second Life is—haha, interesting! Well, it is a good start to play an online game with classmates, teacher and other players.  

Figure 2: My classmates and I at 'Home'

Figure 3: I myself went around somewhere.