3. Purple Tears
We have heard
a lot on interactive authors who are professionals like most of the us here
today, but with avatar worlds it is "regular folks" doing the authoring.
PurpleTears in Onlive for example: Not a professional author or artist, but
a: mother, house wife in middle America. She describes her home as Early America
Yard Sale. She told me that when she first came onto OnLive's 3D virtual worlds
she thought they were made from physical desktop models. She (Pam) authors herself,
Purple Tears. Not fantasy – not role playing but exploring part of her true
persona. Note, her handle online is spelled PrpleTears.
She creates spaces that are intensely personal to her. Her spaces are based
on songs. She listens to a song over and over while creating a world. She has
some of the most popular spaces because she hits a shared emotion. So for Purple
Tears, her worlds are a visualization of a musical narrative. So the song writer
like Cat Stevens for instance is the author too but her spaces go beyond their
musical inspiration and narrative ...