The D'ni Voice

Guild of Messengers News

Leonardo posts in the MOUL Forums that he and Luna(nne) are stepping down from their positions of Guild Masters in the Guild of Messengers. Both of them have done a tremendous job running the guild throughout the time they have held these positions. They will definitely be missed.

He says, “Recently we have felt that we were no longer able to give the right energy to our Guild and we were becoming a weight that was slowing down all the activities and was compromising the possibilities for the future of the GoMe. So, unlike some other GMs, we are choosing to give the opportunity to someone else to use their personal approach to shape the GoMe and give it new energy, before our inactivity starts to be too heavy and bring the rest of the Guild to a dormant state.”

You can check out the rest of the post here on the MOUL Forum. The election process for the new Guild Masters will start in the Guild of Messengers Forum in the Guild Business Section.

Second Life Birthday

The Grim Reaper puts to rest the idea that Second Life is dead:

And comes back for another round…

Stay tuned for round 3 – the Grim Reaper promises he will be back.

Thanks to Dream Seeker Estates and an anonymous donor there will sixteen sims for a Second Life Birthday celebration run by the Second Life Community!

The event will be held June 18 through June 24 and the sims will be rated General.

Volunteers are still needed to help put this event on so if you are looking for something interesting to do with some fun folk, please think about applying and helping out! Training will be provided for volunteers and there will be experienced folk on hand to help out the new ones. I worked as an Exhibitor Assistant last year and had a really fun time. This year I will be do that again as well as working as a Greeter.

If you want to be an Exhibitor – the theme this year is Community – apply here. Make sure you read the Event Policies so you understand what the exhibit policies and the building policies are.

And finally for those DJ’s, musicians, singers, performers, etc., you are definitely needed to make this a great event – apply here. ~D R U M~ is applying and we hope to have several new instrument sets to introduce. Our community has a lot of talented people  who are certain to step forward and show their stuff! I would even love to see Karaoke there!

On a sad note, one of the previous organizers of the Second Life Birthdays, Kev Sweetwater, passed on last week. He was a true gentleman, a hard dedicated worker with a great sense of humor and gave of himself selflessly for the things he believed in. He will be greatly missed in the Second Life Community. I had the privilege of working with him the past several years on other projects as well as last year’s SL8B.  He left us at too early an age.  Rest in peace, Kev.

The Myst culture seems to infiltrate everywhere! catseye Fride shared a very cool Minecraft Mod video by direwolf20 where the highlight is Mystcraft –  a mod developed by XCompWiz who is obviously a Myst fan. In the video direwolf20 shows several different worlds – some appear to have some enemies in them, some look like they are vast. He has a linking book room and even shows you how to write your own linking books and create your own age! An excellent addition for those who are playing Minecraft.

Download it at the Minecraft Forum  which has some great information on what the mod does and check out XCompWiz’s Mystcraft site.

Other news is Cyan has a realMyst for IOS preview out. The video shows an actual capture of realMyst running on an iPad 2. They say it is coming spring 2012 from Cyan Worlds which hopefully will be very soon now as spring is almost over.

Eleri shared on Twitter that Steve Hoogendyk who worked as a production designer,  game designer, and artist on many adventure games including Myst 3:Exile™, RealMyst™, and  Uru™, Ages Beyond Myst  is working on a new game. He is is the Game Designer, Programmer, and Creative Director of Lilly Looking Through.  Jessica Hoogendyk is the Character Animator and Chris Beazer will be creating the soundtrack. From the trailer this looks to be a lovely game with some Myst-like elements. (I recognized the shape of a certain hut!)

The game is described on Geeta Games as:

“What Lilly sees is about to change her life forever….

Help our heroine through a variety of enchanting environments brimming with magic and wonder, as she seeks to rewrite the past, change the present, and unlock the ultimate mystery. Geeta Games presents an animated adventure for all ages:
Lilly Looking Through.”

Download the Demo here.

Check out the Trailer:

It is exciting to see the folk who were involved in the magic of Myst and Uru continuing to create new magic.