One of these was ‘The Spanish Kitchen, made for languagelab. com which was truly amazing.

You sit in the chair, and the abuela starts to prepare one of many meals that are loaded into the game. She asks you (audio with subtitles) to collect various items of food from around the kitchen, and slowly the dish is made. And when it’s finished, she gives you a plate of the food!

The player can select one of 3 levels (Easy-Medium-Difficult) which relate to the type of instructions you receive.

Trying out the blogHUD here, bloggingdirectly from Second Life. I did this while attending the grand opening of VirtualMorocco, a fabulous space in SL that was created by a group of university students after their trip to the real Morocco.

One of the things I love about it was the information system – you collect a fez at the entrance, and wear it. As you wander around the island, there are information points and you automatically receive comments about the places that you visit. Wearing the fez also makes the island fun, especiallyif everyone is wearing one!

A link to the post also brought Fabjectory to my attention, which is also very interesting.

Perhaps, it’s a bridge between the two. One thing that makes Second Life so Web 2.0 is that it embodies what the new Web is all about: users coming together in a community and making content.

Almost all of Second Life has been made by the residents of the virtual world itself, something which makes it a very attractive and appealing place to visit. It is in such a state of flux, with so many people changing so many parts of it, that there’s always something new to explore. Unlike other online games, where I suppose the spaces don’t change.

Of course, what SL is really about is meeting other people, and this is so easy in SL. I find people really friendly in general, and I’ve bumped into neighbours and friends of neighbours, as well as many other people, and found it quite easy to strike up a conversation. Strangely, I rarely know my RL neighbours.