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Hi all,
I have signed up to let you know of a project we are working on and will be submitting.
I will post this under the 'Big Idea' section as it seems to cover many of the topics discussed.
I work as a teacher at Victoria University in the field of virtual reality and in particular Second Life. One of the class assignments is for the students to create a small 'town' with it's own past, culture, secrets, characters, landmarks etc.
The Gaming class at the beginning of this semester chose to build a futuristic Melbourne, without being aware of this futuremelbourne.com.au project.
The town is currently under construction(after 10 weeks of learning and planning), and will be completed in 7 weeks.
The town will only actually 'replicate' a small area of Melbourne, around Flinders Street Station from Swanston Street to Elizabeth.
To quickly summarise what the town is about, it's a fairly evil kind of post apocalyptic Melbourne, which is very creative but also makes a lot of comments about todays society.
To read the full background, as well as dozens of ideas, here is the Creative Director of the projects class blog;
http://atomictophat.blogspot.com/
My class blog can be found here;
http://oztron.blogspot.com (this is for several classes and projects)
With links to all of the IST Flinders Class student blogs on the left hand side.
Below are some images of what the students are building so far.
Flying limousines, the choice of the future rich
A tram under construction (no textures) - there will be a tram drag race feature
Flinders Street Station under construction
Post apocalyptic train under construction
'Killex' turnstiles for the station
A 'Killex' death bot ticket inspector
This entire environment will be online and interactive. It will be completed and open to the public in seven weeks and will have a website which will explain how people can visit as well as a lot more background about this particular Future Melbourne.
If anyone has any enquiries please feel free to post here, as we will be checking regularly, or alternately you can email me at dale (at) oztron.com.
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