Planet Postmoderna Blog

That’s right! Thanks to one of our talented artists, Jitse Akse (Holland) and , whom created the original New Worlds Inc, Postmoderna logo used in several concept renders, we have a new project logo. I have to tell you I love it!

Both of these artists are veterans of the MMO Game and virtual world, Entropia Universe. Jitse is one of the project’s newest volunteer members and has shown his quality talent on many occasions.

We also made a fan icon available for purchase on Entropia Planets by fans of the project and members of the Entropia Game Forum site. No real money is involved here! Just EPDs (Entropia Planet Dollars) that you earn by participating in community discussions.

Again, thanks to the team and the fans for this exciting new image. It represents the virtual world indie project, Planet Postmoderna, very well.

**Note: The did not want to be connected with the logo. Bummers really. I think it is awesome. I tired to credit him with what he did for the original logo but couldn’t find it on the forums. I think the link broke. Sorry.

I have to say that if anyone ever had any doubt, look at this.

In the online MMO Game and Virtual World, Entropia, a virtual property called Crystal Palace, was put to auction. The land property is actually a space station that orbits Planet Calypso, the core planet in the Virtual World. It had been announced during the last month that this property would go up for auction. That announcement led to much discussion and speculation about who would bid for it, let-alone who would win it.

I heard stories that ranged from players like the legendary Deathdifier (who in a previous bidding war of days-gone-by won the famous Treasure Island on Calypso) to groups of players banding together to build asset pools of untold monetary amounts.

I unfortunately was not lucky enough to witness the event (only because it would have just bummed me out more that I could not have participated) but, here is an excerpt from an article by our friends over at Entropia Planets.

With 12 minutes to go, “Zachurm Deathifier Emegen” made his entry into the bidding, and set the bid to 1,010,000 PEDs. A bidding war erupted, with Qetesh raising to 1,111,111. Deathifier raised to 1,121,111, with Qetesh raising to 1,234,567 PEDs. Deathifier took the bid to 1,244,568 PEDs.

The auction finally ended the final bid of 3,300,000 PEDs made by “Buzz Erik Lightyear” at 23:01 Calypso time, thus ending an incredibly exciting auction.

Now why is this so important? Well, the exchange rate for the Entropia currency (PED) to US Dollars is 10:1. This means that for every dollar that is deposited in the Entropia Universe you would get about 10 PEDs (less charges). What does that say about the value of the virtual property of Crystal Palace? Well I can’t tell you how much it is worth but “Buzz” was willing to pay $330,000 US Dollars for it.

So to answer the question about virtual property having value? What do you think?

I can share with you that Deathdifier (and his real life persona), in the year the followed his winning the auction for Treasure Island for $26,500, he made back his investment in fees, taxes and land sales.

In any case we all wish Buzz the best of luck. We can’t wait to see what he does to make Crystal Palace blossom and recoup his investment (and then some).

There was a special event in Vastpark yesterday. It was called Virtual Worlds Down Under (VWDU). It was recorded by Second Life Communication Network (SLCN).

We did a short presentation about our project along with others such as Badumna and RMIT. I thought the overall presentations were fantastic and both organizations have a lot to offer through their projects. They were followed up by Vastpark’s second Master Class session.

My challenge was I felt like I choked on my own presentation and did not do as well as I would have liked to. I had written out what I wanted to say but when I got up to the virtual podium and began to go through my slides, it kind of fell apart. I was so busy trying to make sense of the blurred PowerPoint images that I ended up more “winging it” than staying with the script. Aw well, it was a learning experience for me. I won’t get so distracted next time by what I cannot control.

All in all, I am glad to have had the opportunity to speak and to have met some great new people among the presenters. The Vastpark Team put on a great show.

This is something I struggle with constantly.  I love working on this project.  Finding balance and time to give to specific tasks, lol, that is, well, an interesting thing indeed.

Everyone on our team is either a sponsor/partner or a volunteer.  I know everyone else has time issues or at least thinks they do.    We all have our real lives, careers, school, and everything else that life can throw at us.

I have always been an advocate about “punching the mental working clock” so when I go home from work, I am indeed truly off.  What I do at that point is either work on Planet Postmoderna or spend time with family.  In most cases, it is a little of both.

The part I am challenged with is the fact that at times I wish I could work Postmoderna full time.  Wouldn’t that be great?  I do know that that can’t be so..at least not yet.  I do need to pay the bills and work my day job I shall and try to be as available as I can via email or the Project Postmoderna forums.  Maintain balance in all as best as I can.

This is a great project and I want to keep it fun, fresh and exciting.  I don’t want it to be work for everyone, especially since we are all volunteering.  If I did work on it full time, would be any fun at that point?  Who cares. It is fun right now.

In the end, it will be worth the work.   If and when we contract with Mindark to build our world as part of the Entropia Universe or if we end up building it outside and as a standalone project, we will have made it into something that makes us all money and reward us well and leaves each of us beaming with pride and joy for time worth spent.

Until then no need to crack some special time management code.  We just need to do our schedule juggling acts, shift-tasking technique extraordinaires and find ways to fit the unlimited upcoming tasks into the hours we have so that the end product will be something we can all be proud to say, “Hey, I was on that team and we did do something pretty great, didn’t we?  Put that one on my resume brother.”

I want to thank Vast Park for becoming a project partner.  We will be using their tools to build a demo of Planet Postmoderna to present to potential investors.   I am excited about this partnership and look forward to working closely with them on our project.

As we had shared in an earlier post their tools are excellent for a project like ours and for anyone looking at creating a virtual world or a 3D business presentation.

Thanks again for your support.

Vast Park