How A Virtual World Inventor Blew Up Second Life
 

*Source: GameSetWatch (http://www.gamesetwatch.com/2007/05/...ventor_b.php)*
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Habitat Chronicles is the blog of virtual world pioneers Chip Morningstar and Randy Farmer, creators of the '80s LucasArts virtual world (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitat_%28video_game%29) of the same name, which you can see screenshots of here (http://www.dsgames.net/qlink/habitat/pictures1.htm), and of which even my boss' boss is apparently now aware of, thanks to the virtual world 'micturation'.

Anyhow, Farmer has just posted a new entry (http://www.fudco.com/habitat/archives/000059.html) entitled 'Second Life History: The Jessie Massacre', and in which he admits to griefing the early Beta Second Life world for 'testing' purposes. He explains: "I'd been working with the object spawning directives in the scripting language. I'd also discovered that I could make an object very small (less than an inch in diameter), and very transparent (virtually invisible)."

And so? "It struck on me that I could make a weapon of mass destruction and do it very cheaply.

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