Studia Informatica Pomerania
WNEiZ
Autor: Dorota Chmielewska-Łuczak, Weronika Adamus, Anna Łopuch, Katarzyna Bieńkowska 17
Strony: 17-29
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„YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE” – EXPERIENCE FROM STAY IN UTOPIAN, VIRTUAL WORLD OF SECOND LIFE

Summary
The Second Life game was published in 2003 by Linden Lab and it is a representative of MMORPG games, in which many people can play with each other. The slogan of game is: Your World. Your Imagination.
Player who came into Second Life world impersonate virtual person and leads all its actions. Virtual person can be different than player is. Very often virtual persons are created to be like dreams.
World programmed as place where people can freely realize own needs, where everyone is happy, displays a lot of interesting features, becomes a “fi rst draft”, is susceptible to changes. This world become a place where companies earn, where politicians presents theirs ideology and where social experiments are performed. In the level of individual is the place where players can experiment with theirs owns identity.