Date: 1 October 2009, 10:00am - 11:30am in Tutor Hall 321

Speaker: Erin Reynolds, Yashodhar Naravaneni & Nitin John

Presented by:

USC Second Life Student Developers Group ( http://www-scf.usc.edu/~slsdg)

The Team:

Erin Reynolds

Erin Reynolds is a MFA student at USC School of Cinematic Arts - Interactive Media . Prior to enrolling to the Cinematics school, Erin worked as Game Designer, Illustrator at www.reynoldsphobia.com; Associate Game Designer at Fall Line Studio; Associate Producer, Game Design at Disney Interactive Studios. She completed her bachelors from USC in Fine Arts. Though she recently joined the SLSDG, she plays a key role in the group activity.

Yashodhar Naravaneni

Yashodhar Narvaneni is a MS student at USC Viterbi School of Engineering - Electrical Engineering. Prior to joining USC, he worked as a Web developer in India. He is been working as a Student Developer in Center for Scholarly Technology, ITS-USC since January 2009. He is been with SLSDG since its inception and involves in all research activity of the group.

Nitin Kurian John

Nitin Kurian John is a MS student at USC Viterbi School of Engineering – Computer Science with major interest in Computer Graphics and Game Programming. He is working as a Student Developer in Center for Scholarly Technology, ITS-USC since September 2009. He is been with SLSDG since its inception.

Presentation Abstract

The presentation will consist of

1. Introduction to Second Life:  What is Second Life? What is it all about?

2. Demo of popular Second Life Location including various Retail Stores,

3. Challenges in  Scripting and Modeling in Second Life: Primitive(Prim) counts, number of people

4. The Do's and Don't's of SL

5. Why Second Life can never compete with any other MMORPG?