User-generated future for gaming

Iria · May 21, 2006, 02:33 AM

Source: BBC News
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Gamers today, instead of being thrown into a universe created by teams of designers, can grow their own world, inhabited by any shape of creature they can imagine.

"The future of software development is user-created content", says David Fleck, from Linden Lab, the makers of Second Life.

"First and foremost it allows them to exploit their creative energies and display all the wonderful things that they're good at doing, whether it's manufacturing clothing or architecture.

"In some cases the creations are so fantastic that we even label them as being vanity creations, where they've put all their energies into something that really represents who they are."

May 21, 2006, 02:33 AM	#1
Iria DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 7,275 Rep Power: 89	User-generated future for gaming Source: BBC News ___________ Gamers today, instead of being thrown into a universe created by teams of designers, can grow their own world, inhabited by any shape of creature they can imagine. "The future of software development is user-created content", says David Fleck, from Linden Lab, the makers of Second Life. "First and foremost it allows them to exploit their creative energies and display all the wonderful things that they're good at doing, whether it's manufacturing clothing or architecture. "In some cases the creations are so fantastic that we even label them as being vanity creations, where they've put all their energies into something that really represents who they are."