Games Within Games So Successful They Leave The Game
from the figured-it-out-yet? dept
Clive Thompson points out how a developer created an amazingly popular game within the virtual world of Second Life called Tringo. That, alone, isn't all that interesting. However, the game became so successful within Second Life that the developer was able to have the game made outside of Second Life, and back here in... um...Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Virtual Lawyers & Police...LOL
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I believe it
Tell me when they make the offline version
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GTA:SA, anyone?
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Game developing.
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Game Within A Game?
Now THAT'S a game within a game. (Myst, or was it Cosmic Osmo?)
LM
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um
Now when are they going to make a standalone version of blitzball?
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Blitzball?
H**l I played that more than any other "Main" game out there.
well there's my two cents
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Tringo GBA is already out
In regards to that laywer thing mentioned at the top... the guy actually found a backdoor that let him circumvent the land aution system and he was able to pick up a heap of land for next to nothing. So apparently LL banned his account and recovered the land. Still ongoing AFAIK.
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Tringo
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duuude
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games within games
-Paul
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are your online characters overwieght, sweaty-palmed virgins losers too?
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