Livin’ La Vida Lively

Remember Google Lively? I am sure you do, and despite the fact less than two days have passed since we talked about it for the last time(and first time ever, by the way), today I'll get back to it! You are probably wondering why, but here's the deal - I just noticed that, if I force full anti-aliasing in the Direct3D settings, Google Lively looks great! Heh, it's not quite that...it's just the pleasure of discovering new things with each login into the virtual cartoon world offered by the IT giant, which is getting one step further from the "search giant" label with each new project(I don't know about you, but I think this is a good thing)!

Since talking about the whole thing may not be that interesting, here you have a few tips and tricks:

1. Right click a character in the room, switch to the Animations tab, and then choose one of the following actions: bodyslam, kungfu1 or kungfu2, as well as tickle, but there are plenty of choices, so feel free to explore all of them.

2. Right click your own character, go to Animations, and choose one of the following, for the start: dance1, evillaugh, workout, or roft, my absolute favorite!

3. To adjust your view properly, use the icon in the upper left corner of the Google Lively screen, as you can see in the screenshot below. This can save you a lot of wasted time, believe me!

4. If you liked The Dragon Tower room, which can be seen in the last 3 screenshots above, feel free to fully enjoy it below...

I see a lot of good looking rooms, and it seems people are really getting involved in this already. To create a new room is easy, but to create a good looking one, can be pretty hard, so I will try to help you with this as soon as possible. In the meantime, the question remains - what do you think about Google Lively? Even more, what would you like me to discover for you? ;)



Ooh, it seems I forgot to tell you one thing - if you notice that Google Lively keeps disconnecting you after fairly short periods of inactivity, don't worry - I've been there too, so I guess this is one of those things that the boys and girls at Google will have to work on, sometimes in the near future. I know we're talking about a virtual world here, but why not keep me logged in, just like in Gmail? After all, it's my computer who's doing all the hard work here, isn't it? Don't shoot me yet, I know it may be because staying in a room may cause a certain amount of load on Google's servers... but that's what are they for, right? :)