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

Bloom Peters: Primmy's adventure is the world's first game about Opensim. Primmy is a sassy little cube who was scripted to protect regions from bad script monsters. As the creator of her which is YOU the player. you must help her defeat enemies that want to crash the regions... they are mean! they fight and they punch you you can punch them back

Thirza Ember: sounds like a typical safari

Lavia Lavine: LOL

Bloom Peters: The basic controls are the ARROW keys on pc keyboard... you push Page Up, you jump and Page Down to punch. You must navigate the land similar to super mario get her to the flag at the end of the level The video game features everything you would expect from a video game

James Atlloud: do the wasd keys work?

Bloom Peters: timer lives score and boss fights etc.. and fully voiced actors... 3 levels gets you to a boss fight, i recommend that even though it has 2 players split screen, each person get their own game for full screen enjoyment... it is parcled so you can only hear your own game

Cherry Manga: clever

James Atlloud: wow

Bloom Peters: Primmy's Adventure aims to be the worlds first AAA video game tittle for Opensim... A insane amount of work has been put into it to ensure stability... it might even break the world record for the longest script... 26 thousand lines of code

Lavia Lavine: Holy cow!

Tina Bey: goodness gracious

Bloom Peters: so when you sit on any chair, touch the game console and it will begin a story but click it again to skip it and get into the game as for a tip.. arrow on the switch, the pink switch walk to it and push Down to open the door to get out, and try to survive the bad enemies! go head give it a shot!  you can play the game here

Eva gets started on the Adventure

Cherry Manga: Sven you're like me, stuck !!  XD

James Atlloud: awww

Bloom Peters: story is not fully created so u can skip it by clicking the screen once  and than once again to skip it... performance on many games is unknown... appears to be a bit laggy with many of them running

James Atlloud: a bit, but it's working

Bloom Peters: yup i will need to fine tune the performance for multiples... if it is too laggy i can run one game. Ideally the game is designed to run one per region

Forest Azure: i see a pink thing, but what to do with it?

Cherry Manga: oh Forest , I just found, hit down lol

Sven shows off his gaming skills

Nara Nook: Ok I turned the red switch green, but now what

Bloom Peters: you can exit the house now

Thirza Ember: I got killed!! the good news, I got a photo of it

Bloom Peters: i can see that the region is struggling handling multiple of them at once haha

Thirza Ember: so each player sees a different screen?

Bloom Peters: nope it is shared split screen

Thirza Ember: it's fun to watch people play as well as play yourself!!

Nara Nook: So after I die once the switch is now pink :)

Bloom Peters: yes you must reactivate it... someone is on level 2... perhaps its not too laggy

Thirza Ember: i didn't find it laggy at all personally I'm just a terrible player

eva Nowicka: it's fine for me.. lol.. 104 fps

James Atlloud: Primmy:  You jus gonna let me sit here and die?  lol

Thirza Ember: I keep wanting to teleport out of places I can't seem to jump out of

Nara Nook: um now I have two me is that like an extra life?

Bloom Peters: two you means u can take a extra hit

James Atlloud: Ok - level 1 complete!  some of those jumps were tricksy! .... oh nice music change on level 2

Thirza Ember: omg James  already has 27 coins

James Atlloud: It's because I M so OLD

Tina Bey: James!! You know all the tricks, Genius!

Cherry Manga: just wow the pixel backgrounds and all, Bloom, wow

Thirza Ember: the sheer interactivity here is really fun

Boujee GamerGirl: bloom is there more to add?

Bloom Peters: a lot more Ah HAHAHA... I got to make all 30 levels and 7 bosses

Boujee GamerGirl: oh wow

Forest Azure: i'm sure it is me, but i don't quite understand the connection with OS? I mean this is an arcade game, right?

Bloom Peters: yes its a full platformer video game

Forest Azure: yes.. but why would you want to play an arcade game in OS?

Nara Nook: just for the fun of playing a game in a game

Thirza Ember: why do so many people play Greedy in OS? it's a way to have fun

Bloom Peters: Lol! Because! opensim has limited entertainment options and if we keep adding entertainment people will be more inclined to join and stick around... a game like this wouldn't work in second life due to complexity and it showcases the power of opensim

Thirza Ember: Go Nara Go!!!!

Naomi Volturi: Nice idea... I think there should simply be more playable games in OS.

Cherry Manga: Bloom, please remove the holes on the ground! ahahaha

Nara Nook: I put a bunch of games I made in MOAP just for the recursion

 Bloom Peters: The game will be released on a license...  it will have two versions a normal one and one that comes with a Developer kit... a  pc software that allows you to make levels for it

Forest Azure: i think people play greedy and such here because that is a social experience

Lavia Lavine: I kept getting killed so I decided to just watch

Thirza Ember: me too Lavia, it's fun to see someone really beating the heck out of the game and the sounds and voices are great

Lavia Lavine: You never cease to amaze Bloom

Bloom Peters: once you guys are done trying and if we have more time i can solo... if you want to here is a video of the level when the game runs alone. Video of it performing at its best...  that video showcases the forest level, all levels has their own theme and music and styles

James Atlloud: Of course the sound design is awesome.   I could not even have imagined this in my wildest dreams.

Cherry.Manga: I have no idea how you made this all working but congrats!

eva Nowicka: it's fun!

Lavia Lavine: I can't begin to imagine the amount of time and effort put into this one game.

 Bloom Peters: it was crazy hard haha

Lavia Lavine: I don't doubt that at all.

Thirza Ember: I kept getting stuck in that cave

eva Nowicka: game over :D

Bloom Peters: i will showcase

James Atlloud: wow that was fast level 1

Bloom Peters: on my screen will be a boss fight in boss levels you must defeat all enemies

Cherry Manga: pixel background is insane ♥

 Bloom Peters: i will now showcase a special level with ice!  ice is slippery...

James Atlloud: brilliant voices - are the made with Eleven Labs?

Bloom Peters: yes ...eleven labs is my friend :P

Bloom Peters: you must break ice with fist to get through!

Cherry Manga: punch ICE, hell yes!

Lavia Lavine: Now that's cool.

Tina Bey: wauuuu

Nara Nook: I have been breaking ice for the last two weeks RL and still stuck home.

Thirza Ember: gosh Nara you got 17 coins already

Nara Nook: Level 2 finally

Thirza Ember: awesome Nara on your first attempt!

James Atlloud: stepped over to Nara's game.  Cherry, I hope you weren't looking for a player 2 :(

 Cherry Manga: nahhh, too difficult for me with keyboard, I give up!

Cherry Manga: Next, Bloom, the arcade game but with our avatars? we punch blocks and ice and all?

Bloom Peters: this is a bug, were she slides and goes through a ice block

James Atlloud: breaking the ice, so to speak

Lavia Lavine: We've been fortunate to only have snow but it was a lot of it.

Bloom Peters: i love the lava: level the most... naughty lava

Lavia Lavine: That looks so very cool Bloom. Amazing job you've done.

Bloom Peters: I took special attention to details punching in water is a whole new sound

Thirza Ember: so anyone who wants to try it out either to help find bugs, or to justt play, can come over 24/7 to this region

Petlove Petshop: can't wait....! i used to love to play with my son's things

Bloom Peters: yes this place is open 24/7 but up to 6 levels, other levels not made till all bugs resorted... the game will be available on release, but the dev kit will cost money, dev kit comes with a license to allow people to make a whole new game from the engine

Petlove Petshop: that's only fair... more than fair!

Bloom Peters: the game will be free but wont be modify allowed... I mean you can mod the game sure, customize levels and tiles and things, but you can't make new games from it. I plan on having this finished this year sometime.

Thirza Ember: i will get one for the clubhouse!!

James.Atlloud: Yes @thirza !

Lavia Lavine: I would love to have a couple of them for our Game Central.

Thirza Ember: it's social cuz everyone can hang out and tell you what you're doing wrong LOL

Cherry Manga: ohhhhhhhhh Primmy in 3D here cute

Bloom Peters: ah yes about that! i almost forgot, if u see over here, you will notice 3d assets for the game... I have plans to release the game on Steam!  I already have a beta working on pc, that's just a mini scene of the inside of her house with the switch

Cherry Manga: that's what I want, arcade game in 3D with our avatars as players ... next challenge maybe ?

Forest Azure: i second that!

Thirza Ember: all this plus Bloom is also making a bunch of tools for things like painting terrains LOL she never stops

Bloom Peters: haha terratools is a must have!!

Cherry Manga: painting....terrains?

Bloom Peters: Thirza how much we got now?

Thirza Ember: we have about 15 mins

Bloom Peters: ok i would like to introduce a special tool if u dont mind I am creating a pc software called Opensim Terratools... completely free. It allows you to make terraforms and scenes, with physics and a AAA graphics

James Atlloud: special tool - OH YES!

Bloom Peters: it runs region software built in so you can build a sim inside it without needing opensim and have AAA graphics... it runs the SAME software as Opensim, but customized

Tina Bey: wauu

Bloom Peters:... re coded to be fast, and you can paint the regions ground with texture. Watch this video- here is a quick demo of it running a sim,  it supports DRAG and drop 3d models and saving your scene and reloading etc..

Thirza Ember: great for builders!!

Lavia Lavine: indeed

Bloom Peters: join the Discord server for more explanations

Tina Bey: eso el genial!!!!

James Atlloud: speedy!

Tina Bey: And what is the definition of textures?

James Atlloud: That tool looks awesome Bloom

Bloom Peters: my software has smart physics, everything you don't walk on is phantom by default ... here's a demo of smart physics

James Atlloud: It is so cool Bloom to do this for open simulator, but I hope it doesn't limit you either.

Bloom Peters: the software Opensim Terratools can export heightmaps into opensim

Tina Bey: That would be fantastic

Bloom Peters: so u can terrraform a 16x16with no lag and import it into opensim

Cherry Manga: the texture option can be a game changer, instead of adding meshes, one can create paths or so

Bloom Peters: you can download the terratools here, keep in mind - still in development... you can paint paths and export a MESH and match it to your sims, terrain import your sims height map, paint over it, export DAE, upload it,  place it were it goes, make it phantom

Cherry Manga: awesome

Bloom Peters: feel free to share screen shots in the discord of what you make please! i wanna see it

gif from Bloom's terraforming video

Bloom plans to open her store Love & Pet very soon, so look out for more details about that.

Thirza Ember: this is all really wonderful - taking Opensim to the next level

Petlove Petshop: awesome, totally & completely

Cherry Manga: thank you for showing us your incredible skills Bloom, see you later!

Petlove Petshop: Bloom, thanks very much!  so much fun and so interesting!!

Nara Nook: thanks for having us, this was fun

James Atlloud: ok - thanks Bloom and Boujee!

eva Nowicka: a great work, Bloom.. I always read what you post on different Discord servers.. thanks for the visit

Bloom Peters: ty for coming!

HG Address: bloompeters.ddns.net:11052/Arcade%20Plaza