Second Life
By Chris Lane
What is Second Life?
• Second life is an online role playing game
• Players create avatars that live in their own digital world.
• All avatars can interact with each other
History
• Launched June 23rd, 2003
• Took years to develop and went through many stages before it became the hit game it is today
Avatars
• Players can choose to make their avatars any form they want
• Avatars can communicate through public messaging and instant messaging
• Basic accounts are free
The Second Life World
• The world in which gamers manipulate their characters is very realistic
• It has it’s own economy, currency, and different real-estate options
• There are also 4 separate “lands that players can chose to play in