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Explore the many player-created regions in Osgrid
Meet new people in the game's many chat rooms and make new friends
Try your hand at creating a completely 3D world from scratch
For those of you who have a burning desire to learn how to make games particularly MMO server based game worlds, a good place to start would be a game building and modding application.
One of the more popular development tools would be an application called Open Simulator (OS). What it basically does is to create a server on your hard drive that is running a simulated 3D world or environment which in reference to OSGrid is called a region.
OSGrid on the other hand is basically just that, a grid for the Open Simulator regions. You can call it a main server if you will where all the other individual servers or regions that are currently running are connected to. Another good example of this kind of main server would be Second Life (SL) which functions a lot like OSGrid and also uses the Open Simulator application. Being open source means that OSGrid and its supporting apps are free and can be downloaded through its website.
There are essentially 2 ways by which you can use OSGrid. The first being for pure virtual world entertainment. You can create an Avatar and visit all the other available locations connected to OSGrid. Each region is running Open Simulator, has its own environment, rules (if it’s a game), shared resources (like clothing and skins for your avatar) and even micro-transactions (if they are selling in-game items for real cash).
There are simply many regions created by Osgrid’s creative bunch of players for you to explore. Ranging from the futuristic to the medieval locations, you may sometimes bumble into places that you may recognize such as a recreation of the starship Enterprise or an entire world that’s replicated as accurately as it can based on the somewhat popular TV show, Firefly. Of course, there are also the usual chat rooms and hangout sites where players can meet up with other people and simply chat about the day.
The second reason to use OSGrid, however, will require a certain amount of technical know-how - to learn how to and develop your own 3D world for a game, to establish a virtual location where businesses can use for meeting and presentation purposes or some other applications.
The technical knowledge you’ll need to actually create a world from scratch can be pretty overwhelming for a beginner. So, unless you are really serious about undertaking a project like this or have prior experience with running server based applications, 3D graphic development apps, sound and voice apps or have created your own game maps using 3D game editors for game engines like Source or Unreal, it would be advisable to stick with just being curious and check out the game just to explore and meet people.
To sum it all up, OSGrid is one huge Sim World network composed of individual private and commercial Open Sim servers. Each regional development may affect the others in myriad of ways and create opportunities for resource sharing and micro-transactions. What all of this adds up to, only time can tell. Osgrid Summary
Meet new people in the game's many chat rooms and make new friends
Try your hand at creating a completely 3D world from scratch
For those of you who have a burning desire to learn how to make games particularly MMO server based game worlds, a good place to start would be a game building and modding application.
One of the more popular development tools would be an application called Open Simulator (OS). What it basically does is to create a server on your hard drive that is running a simulated 3D world or environment which in reference to OSGrid is called a region.
OSGrid on the other hand is basically just that, a grid for the Open Simulator regions. You can call it a main server if you will where all the other individual servers or regions that are currently running are connected to. Another good example of this kind of main server would be Second Life (SL) which functions a lot like OSGrid and also uses the Open Simulator application. Being open source means that OSGrid and its supporting apps are free and can be downloaded through its website.
There are essentially 2 ways by which you can use OSGrid. The first being for pure virtual world entertainment. You can create an Avatar and visit all the other available locations connected to OSGrid. Each region is running Open Simulator, has its own environment, rules (if it’s a game), shared resources (like clothing and skins for your avatar) and even micro-transactions (if they are selling in-game items for real cash).
There are simply many regions created by Osgrid’s creative bunch of players for you to explore. Ranging from the futuristic to the medieval locations, you may sometimes bumble into places that you may recognize such as a recreation of the starship Enterprise or an entire world that’s replicated as accurately as it can based on the somewhat popular TV show, Firefly. Of course, there are also the usual chat rooms and hangout sites where players can meet up with other people and simply chat about the day.
The second reason to use OSGrid, however, will require a certain amount of technical know-how - to learn how to and develop your own 3D world for a game, to establish a virtual location where businesses can use for meeting and presentation purposes or some other applications.
The technical knowledge you’ll need to actually create a world from scratch can be pretty overwhelming for a beginner. So, unless you are really serious about undertaking a project like this or have prior experience with running server based applications, 3D graphic development apps, sound and voice apps or have created your own game maps using 3D game editors for game engines like Source or Unreal, it would be advisable to stick with just being curious and check out the game just to explore and meet people.
To sum it all up, OSGrid is one huge Sim World network composed of individual private and commercial Open Sim servers. Each regional development may affect the others in myriad of ways and create opportunities for resource sharing and micro-transactions. What all of this adds up to, only time can tell. Osgrid Summary
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