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Second Life: The Official Guide
by: Michael Rymaszewski, Wagner James Au, Cory Ondrejka, Richard Platel, Sara Van Gorden, Jeannette Cézanne, Paul Cézanne, Benjamin BatstoneCunningham, Aleks Krotoski, Celebrity Trollop, Jim Rossignol

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 794.8
EAN: 9780470227756
ISBN: 0470227753
Label: John Wiley & Sons
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 416
Publication Date: January 18, 2008
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Studio: John Wiley & Sons
Sales Rank: 82192

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
In this fully revised and updated Second Edition, you′ll discover the very latest information about living in Second Life—from how to enter the world, get started, and get around, to the many exciting new ways you can earn real–world incomes, meet other residents, and enjoy all there is to do. Authored by Second Life experts with contributions from Linden Lab employees and Second Life residents, it’s the perfect companion for anyone who wants to create his or her own reality in Second Life. Includes a CD.

Synopsis:
In this fully revised and updated second edition, you'll discover the very latest information about living in Second Life - from how to enter the world, get started, and get around, to the many exciting new ways you can earn real-world incomes, meet other residents, and enjoy all there is to do. Authored by "Second Life" experts with contributions from Linden Lab employees and Second Life residents, it's the perfect companion for anyone who wants to create his or her own reality in "Second Life". It includes a CD.

From the Back Cover:
Enjoy Your Second Life

This exclusive guide is your official gateway to Second Life, the wildly popular virtual world now inhabited by more than eight million residents. In this fully revised and updated Second Edition, you′ll discover the very latest information about living in Second Life—from how to enter the world, get started, and get around, to the many exciting new ways you can earn real–world incomes, meet other residents, and enjoy all there is to do.

Authored by Second Life experts and featuring contributions from Linden Lab employees and Second Life residents from around the world, this is the perfect companion for anyone who wants to create his or her own reality in Second Life. The book includes:

Avatar appearance: Create your look and find your voice.
Places to go: Take a grand tour of interesting Second Life locales.
Things to do: Enjoy the nightlife, the great places to shop, and the rich variety of SL communities.
People to meet: Who will you be in this wide–open world? Get a taste of the diverse social scene. Meet both famous and infamous residents and read their compelling profiles.
Start building: Create everything from sandals to spaceships, and beyond, thanks to expanded SL technology tools and tons of helpful tips.
Scripting basics: Make your projects move, talk, spin, and more–learn scripting directly from the creator of the Linden Scripting Language.
Create machinima: Learn to storyboard, design, and star in your own productions.
SL economy: Profit from the thriving SL economy and turn L$ into US$.

Learn how to meet and make friends with people from around the world

Experience Second Life′s amazing destinations

Get insider tips for such things as managing your unwieldy inventory

On the CD
The CD provides textures, avatar templates, animation software, more than a hundred sample animations, machinima created in Second Life, and a host of resources to help Second Life residents, builders, scripters, and animators.

About the Author:
Michael Rymaszewski is an award–winning author of more than 20 computer books, including Second Life: The Official Guide.

Wagner James Au is a journalist embedded in Second Life and runs the New World Notes blog.

Cory Ondrejka is CTO of Linden Lab and created the Linden Scripting Language.

Richard Platel has been a resident of Second Life and an LSL scripter since before the public beta in 2003.

Sara Van Gorden has built hundreds of things and works for developer Electric Sheep.

Jeannette Cézanne and Paul Cézanne run SecondSeeker.com, a blog that reviews interesting Second Life places and activities.

Benjamin Batstone–Cunningham helped start the Second Life Machinima community while working at Linden Lab. He recently founded Alt–Zoom Studios, a development agency in SL.

Aleks Krotoski is a long–time Second Life resident who writes about emerging community experiences in virtual worlds.

Celebrity Trollop runs Second Style Fashionista, a blog on Second Life fashion.

Jim Rossignol is a writer and editor focused on digital culture.

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Interesting, but doesn't help you get started
Some really good background and context for SL, and some good detailed tips for doing things like creating and finessing your avatar, but I (and a lot of others I met) spent a long time stuck on the introduction Island and couldn't find a way off and no help from the 'Guide' book.

Took me some persistence to really get going in SL and the book didn't really help me in the 'Rough Guide' way I'd have liked. Still - if you've alreayd got mates in SL, you'll be fine and this book can help add a few fininshing tweaks (although you can probably work them out for yourself and have fun doing it.

Rating:

- Life in a Hyper-World
I do strongly recommend this book for it is packed with invaluable advice for the Second Life newcomer. It is perhaps a mark of this books' quality that it has yet to become superceeded as a definitive introduction to Second Life. The downside to this is that despite the fact that it has only been published for a few months much of its content is old - such is the pace of change in Second Life.

Nevertheless it is a superbly crafted publication with great layout and illustrations. Instead of merely acting as an intstruction manual there is also a great deal of background information on subjects such as the history of the development of Second Life, regular Second Lifers anecdotal observations and indepth analysis of successful avatars. ... Read More:

Rating:

- Get a life, a second one.
I won't duplicate the info in the Synopsis nearby. A pleasure to handle and read being on good quality gloss paper with coloured illustrations on nearly every page. Could do with an index as there are so many features you will want to read again when you encounter them in the `game'. It would help if there was an online copy that could then be searched. It would still be worth buying the book for the greater convenience. Second Life like real life is so complex and evolving so fast that you feel as helpless as a baby at first and I found the book a pleasant way to learn a lot rather than stumbling about in the Second Life World,
On Page 128 it suggests opening a second free Basic Account for backup puposes. I suspect this is out of date as the ... Read More:

Rating:

- Not bad, but not so good
The book is not bad, but you have to understand that you only get an overview of Second Life. It may be useful for newbies, but that's all. The information about building is poor, a lot of information is quite outdated considering that this is an "Official Guide", but is nice if you are just starting and want to understand a bit of this incredible world ;-)

Rating:

- Invaluable
This book is not only beautiful to look at and beautifully made, it is an absolute must for all those who want to start a Second Life. Packed with inside information and extremely useful tips, it shows you SL from the inside. Don't start without it! You'll discover why it's so important to linger on Help Island, how to make a fabulous avatar, and how to make the most of your new life... for free! Invaluable ressource. :o)

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