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