Cornflakes with a Twist

We hit Cornflakes Week with all the bright colors and primmy nonsense of a decade-long tradition this Wednesday, as the HG Safari crew teleported to the newly revived Cornflakes Tribute region, now back online, this time on HG Safari grid. 

For more about the sim in general, don't miss this post that takes a deeper dive into some of the details of the historic region. 

Whirli Placebo

We were honored to have Whirli Placebo as our musical guest, he has been there for us so many times over the years, what we found extra special is the music he shared with us... more of that later.

IMAGE Awareness

IMAGE is a game system that Spax Orion of Ozone grid is working on with a view to making it available for free to other opensim grids. 

The name is an acronym for 'Image Matrix Action Game Engine' and right now it's up and running but needs people to come over and try it out so that any remaining bugs in the system can be worked out.

 So, ask yourself, could you 'sacrifice' a bit of time by going to sim Atrius, playing a shoot 'em up game, and then giving honest feedback, so that the IMAGE project can reach the stage that it becomes shareable?  

Going Solo

 Our second stop this week was on Avirtualworld. Bob Solo and the lovely Shea Butter were on hand to welcome us when we arrived on the region he was showcasing this time, SG1. As usual, the HG Addresses are at the end of the post, simply open your viewer on your home region, open the Map, and copy paste the address into it and go! Avirtualworld is open 24/7 and Bob says he is almost always online so you can go over and say hello to him any time.

Bob Solo

George Equus: SG1  and Atlantis was rather good series

Forest Azure: i have no idea what SG! is

Lavia Lavine: Star Gate

James Atlloud: TV show/Movie named Star Gate

Bob Solo: I built this all in prim, all after the tv show

Equitopia

Our first stop this week was on pangea Grid, and grid owners Malon Wayne and Tutz Gabelin were there to meet us along with region builder Mys Tigerpaw. To try to make life easer in this baabel of various native tongues, Marlon wore the translator orb on his head so we could join it and remaain within its range even when we moved around the sim.

Mys Tigerpaw: today we can call Marlon, Atlas

Marlon Wayne: Hello everybody

Forest Azure: hello

Dorena Bree: Hello

eva Nowicka: that's right, Forest, I should have picked up a bow too :D

Mys Tigerpaw: Welcome to Equitopia everyone! Please let me know when you are all rezzed.

George Equus: Hi all. sorry I am late.

Mys Tigerpaw: As you can see, my name is Mys and  I am a born horse nut. In RL I work with horses, doing osteopathy, massage, acupressure and deep fascia treatment on them. Equitopia has been really fun for me to build. If you have any questions , don’t hesitate to ask. I will do my best to answer them.

Nara Nook: I love riding in Opensim

Forest Azure: oh, George is horse-minded too!

Mys Tigerpaw: lol yes i noticed George's last name

George Equus: Well suppose...

Flaking Out

Cornflakes Week, the last seven days of February, has come around again and once again it's time to celebrate a uniquely Opensim tradition.

This year on Wednesday 25 February, at 12 noon Grid time, HG Safari will be celebrating Cornflakes Week on the Cornflakes Tribute region, which also has a shop area with extras inspired by or based on Cornflakes creations - the tp is by the arrival point.

Cornflakes 

Not linked to any real world national or religious festival, it's a time when people can just be silly in their own, unhinged, untethered, utterly Opensim style. 

Some of Cornflakes' stuff might be characterized as solo creations, a single statue, but far more of it is made to form a tableau, each one poignant, with a story to tell if you have time to look for it. Here's just one of the many. 

Marpil's Wonderland

Our second stop was a complete change from the first. We jumped to Alternate Metaverse Grid, to explore another side of an Opensim favorite, Tierra de Volcanes, often abbreviated to TdV. The sim is in the top 40 most visited, in the opensimworld classification based on the beacon system, so pretty much all of us had been here before, but the real treat was of course to get the full background story from the person behind the build, Marpil Grafenwalder.

Marpil Grafenwalder

Marpil Grafenwalder: Hi, welcome, hola a todos

Cherry Manga: Hey Marpilll

Lavia Lavine: Hi Marpil!

eva Nowicka: oh oh.. tierra de volcanes :)

Marpil Grafenwalder: please accept the translator

Thirza Ember: from East Coast USA, to the Canary Islands in one short jump!!!

Marpil Grafenwalder: hahhaha yea

eva Nowicka: son unas islas muy bonitas, recomiendo visitarlas en RL :)

Marpil Grafenwalder: Hola a todos y bienvenidos de nuevo a Tierra de Volcanes. El año pasado, durante el Safari, hablamos sobre los orígenes de esta región: las islas, los paisajes y la inspiración de las Islas Canarias.

Arrival point on Tierra de Volcanes

The translator kicked in, such a useful addition to Opensim. It took many hours of hard work scripting and debugging this addition to our inworld experience, and was generously given to the community for free

AMV-T:[es→en]: Hello everyone and welcome back to Tierra de Volcanoes.  Last year, during the Safari, we talked about the origins of this region: the islands, the landscapes and the inspiration of the Canary Islands.  Today I would like to show you a different facet of this project: how Tierra de Volcanes became a creative store and a playful community space.

Adventures at the Arcade

This week's first stop on Safari was Winxtropia where Bloom Peters continues to perfect her inworld arcade game, Primmy's Adventure. The giant retro Gameboy machines awaited our group, each one set up with places for two players. This was the first time so many people had come to the region to play, so it was not guaranteed that we'd all be able to play without drowning in lag... Safari is always an adventure! Even experienced Safari hosts have a little bit of butterflies in their stomachs when waiting for the crowd to arrive, and it's in those moments when you suddenly have a thought.... 

Bloom Peters: I am a criminal for not building the sim in the game style with the blocks!  HAHAHA... 

Thirza Ember: hehehe !!! the perfectionist...

Bloom Peters: yup!

Bloom Peters: welcome!

Forest Azure: hello bloom

Cherry Manga: aloha Bloom!

Nara Nook: Hey Bloom :)

Boujee GamerGirl: welcome everyone

Forest Azure: friend of yours, cherry?

Thirza Ember: lol cherry  has to pay for 2 tickets

Bloom Peters: haha nice avatar Cherry

Cherry Manga: Always dreamed about being a plumber going through pipes

Cherry showed up with a friend, dressed for the occasion

Bloom Peters: while you are here make sure to set max bandwidth, on your viewer - slide it all the way right... might not be required but it will help