Making virtual worlds
Subtitle: Linden Lab and Second Life
By: Thomas M. Malaby.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 165
ISBN-13: 9780801447464
Subjects: Linden Lab (Firm); Second Life (Game) -- Social aspects; Shared virtual environments -- Case studies; Computer games -- Design -- Social aspects -- Case studies; Business anthropology -- California -- San Francisco -- Case studies; Corporate culture -- California -- San Francisco -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : a developer's-eye view; title: The product : Second Life, capital, and the possibility of failure in a virtual world; title: Tools of the gods; title: Knowing the gamer from the game; title: The birth of the cool; title: Precarious authority.