Comments on: 3D Kink – “second life for sex” – launches!

By: Bacchus

Bacchus — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 22:49:23 +0000

Have been playing with this all day now. I wish it were a multiplayer game; it feels like it was designed to support one, so maybe that’s still in the works.

One thing that’s still sorely lacking is tools to share customizations, storyboards, and so forth between users. The files look to be stored pretty openly, so maybe this is just a matter of waiting for interface improvement.

I’ve also been wondering whether Kink.com plans to release “people packs” modeled after some of their popular models. (That would raise some interesting intellectual property issues, but they’ve got the lawyers and money to make it happen if so inclined.)

By: Tess

Tess — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:25:14 +0000

In addition it has about the worst user interface of any game I have ever tried. It is also buggy and as far as I can tell not even two player and certainly not massively multi-player. It is not up to the excellent quality I have come to expect from Kink.com.

Tess

By: Tess

Tess — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 07:55:22 +0000

Second Life can be played free but 3D Kink is $30 per month. In an age where more and more MMO’s are free to “play” and make their income from micro-transactions I think the good folks at Kink.com may need to rethink their business model.

Tess

By: Laszlo

Laszlo — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:36:25 +0000

I wonder which physical attributes will start to be the most common that people choose for themselves. Will some be editable over time, like you can’t change your neck length, but you can change your pubic hair cut as much as you want, and your breast size once or twice at most?

By: jan

jan — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:00:34 +0000

It IS 3d sex villa branded by Kink ( if you go to the 3D Villa site you see the same clothing & rooms. ) I dont understand the “second life” part as it is not an online game.

By: Valentina Kendal

Valentina Kendal — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:40:19 +0000

looks pretty much like SL to me, furries and all. /me waves to Peter

By: Hmm

Hmm — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 05:23:51 +0000

I don’t see anything on the site that indicates this is massively multiplayer…

By: Zoulmi

Zoulmi — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:10:22 +0000

It really looks like 3D sex villa (and other games from the same company.)
It was quite a amazing game, with realistic physics and all…

It’s a shame I don’t have a PC with both windows and that configuration.

By: Pete

Pete — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:28:20 +0000

Because Mac users are too busy to yiff?

By: iObject

iObject — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:40:22 +0000

The only problem here is the lack of Mac support. Why is there never Mac support?

By: Darkstar

Darkstar — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 07:56:01 +0000

As someone who has been in Second Life for a while, I don’t see anything here that can’t be done in SL, including yiffing (furry sex). One thing is that the UI is more specialized. For instance, in your picture #4 it’s easier to take off individual pieces of clothing here than in SL, not that stripping isn’t done in SL.

I seriously doubt that Kink.com has the capability to build this from scratch. This is probably build on top of a private OpenSim grid, although there are other platforms available. I commend them for their job in designing their client (the front end program that customers use to access the virtual world).

Although I have no interest in the content, I’m very interested in how they handle puppeteering, that is how does the user control her or his avatar? From what you’ve shown already, I expect they have some smart ideas.

There is a compromise in where one sets the minimum system requirements. The higher the bar, the better the customer experience, but the fewer potential customers with the hardware needed to run the program used to access your virtual world. The minimums for 3D Kink are actually rather low. Windows XP or Vista (no OS X or Linux), a Pentium 4 or similar at 1GHz with 512K or RAM, and 64MB 3D video with OpenGL 1.1 or DirectX 8.

By: Peter Stindberg

Peter Stindberg — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 07:40:10 +0000

I thought – according to mainstream media – Second Life is all about sex and filth already? ;-)

By: jesusangelgarcia

jesusangelgarcia — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:35:15 +0000

incredible… what does intimacy look like in a culture of e-communication?