So now you can enjoy the comic coaster or kick some dodgeballs around(or get hit by that one rogue ball). There are a few comics up there, including the panels along the comic coaster(a.k.a. “Comic Trail” or “Runner Coaster”). If you have Second Life 2.0, the latest comic is visible on the stage.
Coming soon will be virtual merchandise, a more fully-textured dodgeball area, and sound effects! Videos are still on their way. I want to get the theme park more finished before I record. I now have a tips booth, in the style of a ticket booth. The suggested tip equals around 10 cents(US). Also, the grand sign is in front now! I decided it would be most visible at ground level.
If you look at the top bar of KennyChronicles.com, you’ll also see a link called “Theme Park”. That’ll make it easier to find the link to teleport there. Speaking of that, you can teleport also by clicking here! Requires the Second Life program, a Second Life account, a fast computer and broadband internet. This is why I’m also making sure to have videos soon.
If you don’t have Second Life, this is your chance to experience the comic coaster at Kennyland! This attraction takes you through the storyline that starts with Kenny’s attempted murder on Funky Skunk. The ride’s finale was the main selling point for choosing this storyline.
Editing out all the times Second Life lagged, or times when my computer wasn’t fast enough for more than 5 frames per second, is hard work. Also, finding a screen recording program that works, is free, AND doesn’t bog down an already RAM-hogging activity. Eventually I found Camstudio, which I recommend for recording Second Life activity now.
…across the walkway! The new plot is more open and is connected to the sandbox. I figure connecting my hangout with the main hangout can only be good, and the previous owner happened to miss their last rent payment, leaving it free for me(or someone else) to grab. I think all links are updated now, except those in past posts, which I don’t plan on updating since this is an update already.
Also, last week I added a water slide!
To coincide with the geeky holiday “Towel Day“, I now have beach towels at Kennyland! For today only, the towels are free. What’s more, there’s a Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy towel that’s ONLY available today! It can be sent to friends so that you can be sure that they know where their towel is.
Got Second Life or want it? Get to Kennyland by clicking here!
UPDATE: Towel Day was a success! Over 80 towels were given away. Now that Towel Day is over, the towels are L$10, which equals 3-4 cents(U.S.). If you want the Don’t Panic towel, you can just contact Kenny Panache and I’ll send it for free look in the freebie box up front! I’d like to see it get spread around more.
UPDATEUPDATED(July 12): I now have a freebie box that has the Don’t Panic towel in it, as well as a Kennyland beach ball!
From the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy:
A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value — you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand-tohand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can’t see it, it can’t see you — daft as a bush, but very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.
More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitchhiker) discovers that a hitchhiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitchhiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitchhiker might accidentally have “lost”. What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.
Hence a phrase which has passed into hitch hiking slang, as in “Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There’s a frood who really knows where his towel is.” (Sass: know, be aware of, meet, have sex with; hoopy: really together guy; frood: really amazingly together guy.)
There will be a fireworks show in Second Life today! Well, there will be many, but there will also be one at Kennyland, the official virtual theme park of Kenny Chronicles!
In front, you can find a bbq grill that gives hamburgers, a box that gives sparklers, and a cart that gives ice cream cones, all free! On the dancing deck, there’s a cannon that shoots beach ball cannonballs, and there are 2 small fireworks shooters on either side of the swimming pool aimed at each other. After Independence Day, the firework launchers, sparklers and hamburgers will go away. I’ll try to find reasons to bring the grill out more often, though. It may stick around an extra day.
If you have Second Life, come join us at 6pm Second Life time(that’s 8pm CST) for a fireworks show with a nuclear finale.
I hate to do this, but today’s comic will be up this evening. My sleep pattern is messed up enough already, and I currently have sketching, inking and coloring left to do. The backgrounds have been rendered and laid out. Thankfully, today’s one of my days off, so I’ll get back to this as soon as I fully wake up. I think I stayed on Second Life way too long, but at least I got in some good chatting about the future of Kennyland and got some research done for it. I have exciting plans for it. I just need to find the time to work on that AND the comic.
So that I don’t leave you with nothing, here’s a wireframe view of my Kenny avatar with a lemur tail. I don’t think the wireframe view in Second Life saves resources at all.
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I felt like drawing Kenny as a bunny. Then I decided that Fuego should be a fox, to balance things out. SWAPPAGE!!!
It’s tricky changing a brown rabbit into a fox of any color. A brown fox would just look like a wolf or other canine. I still think he looks like Kenny’s mother. Thankfully, Kenny’s colors work just fine on a rabbit.
Alternate picture: Kenny tells Fuego(who is his normal rabbit self), “Well, at least my ears are the same size”, to which Fuego replies, while holding a tape measure, “No, they’re just a tad shorter”.
Ride the soup!!!
This ride is inspired by that one comic where Kenny was eating lemming soup. Kenny’s closest friends are also herbivores, so add in soups for their species and bam, you get a ride similar to the spinning teacups ride in the Disney theme parks.
It’s especially fun when you enter mouselook mode.
With this ride comes another feature: Collectible lapel pins! There are 3 so far.
1. Ride the soup for 5 minutes and a pin icon pops up that you can click on to receive it. The icon stays up for 1 minute and shows up again every 5 minutes. This is the pin of Kenny’s lemming girlfriend, Death.
2. The freebie cart now has a pin of Rufus, Kenny’s kangaroo friend. If you’re a member of the group, this was sent to you.
3. If you pay the tips booth any amount, you receive a Fuego Hare pin. I figured this would be appropriate since Fuego’s the one in the booth. If you don’t have any L$ in your account, that’s fine, you can request a pin by IMing Kenny Panache.
I have even more plans waiting in the wings. For instance, that picture of a ferris wheel in the background is just the start of a collaboration I’m in.
Seriously, Apple? The first feature you list is buttons? It’s also heavily-touted on the product page. I get that it’s a big change from the previous model, which also had buttons but fewer and made it smaller, but having buttons as a selling point really makes it sound like they have nothing.
Meanwhile, the iPod Nano has lost its camera. I’ve been wanting to get an iPod Nano as soon as I can afford one, but this dulls the deal for me. Add to that, the subtraction of VIDEO PLAYING, and it becomes even less useful.
My most basic mp3 player needs: I want an easy-to-carry mp3 player that remembers where it left off on my podcast when you turn it off and can pick up where I left off even a week later. Letting me pick up where I left off on my computer sweetens that deal even more. I know that used to be a selling point of the iPod, and I’m sure it still is, since iTunes still remembers where I left off. Therefore, an iPod seems the natural choice(I don’t know if Zune does this), and a Nano would be more useful than my Sansa. Having a video camera better than my point-and-shoot’s is a great feature. If I do find the cash for an iPod, it’ll likely be an iPod Touch now. Both the Nano and the Touch have their advantages. The Nano is great if you go for long walks while listening to podcasts. That happens to be what I do. The Touch is great for people that want all the the features of an iPhone but don’t want the phone charges. I like that too. I pay $15/month for my Net10 phone service, and I barely even use the minutes. I’m not paying monthly for an iPhone.
I’m tempted to get the previous model of the iPod Nano so I can still get that portable camera and the ability to watch videos on the go. I’m not sure how good the new Nano’s touch screen is. I kinda like having controls always visible, and I particularly like controls I can feel without having to look.
As for the iPod Shuffle; no screen, no deal. I want to see the description of the podcast, maybe even the album artwork, since it changes between episodes on some podcasts.
Edit December 2011: That following Christmas, I got a used iPhone 3GS and a new iPod Shuffle, both of which are awesome. I simply used the iPhone as an iPod Touch & GPS without paying AT&T’s unwieldy monthly charges. I liked the iPhone so much more than my cheapy Net10 phone that in December 2011, I replaced the cheap phone with a Motorola Triumph, Virgin Mobile’s currently-best Android phone. Yes, it’s not an iPhone, but Virgin Mobile has MUCH more reasonable plans than AT&T, and Android phones, which are very comparable to iPhones.
Oh, and those buttons? GREAT selling point. Seriously, I love being able to pause just by pressing one button. No unlocking my iPhone in order to access virtual buttons. It was such a hassle pausing my iPhone that I switched completely to the iPod Shuffle for listening to podcasts while walking or driving. I doubt my Android phone will be any more convenient than my iPhone in that way. Too bad, because my Android will be able to update podcasts over the air. Maybe I can find a remote control for it. And yes, I know that any dedicated mp3 player will have buttons, too. I wish my iPhone had a play button.
I’m taking the week off from comics to get ready for Toonfest in Marceline, MO. Part of the break’s purpose is to adjust my sleep schedule so I can wake up in time for everything. I hope I can have some non-comic content created and uploaded in the break. Maybe I’ll get ahead on the comic, too?
To hold your interest in this break, I give you bouncing otter squeaks:
Coming soon will be virtual merchandise, a more fully-textured dodgeball area, and sound effects! Videos are still on their way. I want to get the theme park more finished before I record. I now have a tips booth, in the style of a ticket booth. The suggested tip equals around 10 cents(US). Also, the grand sign is in front now! I decided it would be most visible at ground level.
Seriously, Apple? The first feature you list is buttons? It’s also heavily-touted on the product page. I get that it’s a big change from the previous model, which also had buttons but fewer and made it smaller, but having buttons as a selling point really makes it sound like they have nothing.
Meanwhile, the iPod Nano has lost its camera. I’ve been wanting to get an iPod Nano as soon as I can afford one, but this dulls the deal for me. Add to that, the subtraction of VIDEO PLAYING, and it becomes even less useful.
