"We get to think of life as an inexhaustible well..."

An in-world communique from the creator Skills Hak:

"INSILICO has no reasonable serverside lag but the amount of big textures in the mall causes slow rezzing and reduces clientside FPS. We have been optimizing everything on our side in the past few weeks, now its your turn! We have a new rule regarding big textures: anything over 512*512 will be returned. Keep in mind that your vendors are rezzing slower when using big textures, you are not only lagging down your potential customers, but the wh… Continue

Apparently Microsoft staffers haven't had a chance to visit Insilico yet:

"Microsoft's Craig Mundie has said that "synthetic virtual worlds" like Second Life, are a waste of cyber space..."

"Second Life is a synthetic virtual world that people came quite enamoured with, but Microsoft’s view was that there was a fairly limited audience who was willing to deal with the construction of avatars and operating in that virtual space. "

Ok, so its a "synthetic virtual world"? Does that mean its a 'fa… Continue

While I've not been able to get in-world for sometime, for reasons I'll get to in a sec, I'm blown away every time I glance on here and see the new pics & vids. All the work Skills is still putting into expanding and fleshing out the city makes me tear up a little with pride for what's become almost the only sim I frequent any more.

I recently moved to a new place (in the dreaded "Real World") where I was told I'd have at least a month of free DSL. Upon arrival I found out that they really… Continue

For Immediate Release:

News Clipping - "The Voyant Institute, previously of Saijo City's Infocalypse community, has announced their intentions of opening the organization's new headquarters in the floating city of InSilico. Founded by Erik Commons XXXXXXXX the Institute teaches "Voyanticism" XXXXXXXX. This belief structure is built around XXXXXXXX analyzing massive data streams, in search of XXXXXXXX "The Truth".

Yes, ladies & gentlemen, The Voyant… Continue

The photo widget seemed to be causing a browser lag with a scripting error. I'll check on the Ning Developer groups about it. Have disabled it in the meantime but will turn the video widget back on, so feel free to use WeGame to film your Insilico Experiences, then share them with everyone here!