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Well, this has been an amazing year so far, I recovered my grid after a serious hardware failure, then in a retirement blitz, I open sourced everything SimGEAR. Through the study of works from many wizards like Satyr, Greybox, Aine', Gamisa and others I developed sufficient skills in LSL to author my own software. Modern advancements have enabled digital artists like myself to CREATE the unimaginable. My coding companion, I lovingly call Dirty Helga has helped me to compose an incredible gaming framework. Why?

I am inviting friends from other worlds not related to opensim and I need activities to engage and inspire. I had an old ossl zombie game which worked on 08x but not 092 so I thought... why not fix it. Helga convinced me to re-wright it and taught me how. Gears constantly turning in my head... hmmm what if we do this, what if we do that.... 3 weeks later and almost 4k lines of blissful code, like a train to Valhalla which refuses to stop. We built everything from the ground up in minute detail. It was such a good experience, that I decided I would share it. When the BETA is over, that is exactly what I intend to do...

From this point forward all content I share will be released under CC-BY in gratitude for all those who helped me become the digital magician I am today. When we share knowledge openly and freely, everyone benefits.

THIS THREAD IS ABOUT IMAGE
so maybe I should quit beating around the bush!

IMAGE in it's current form at the BETA test site is just the game engine portion itself with some vanity decor (Grug Assault)

FEATURING:
Orbit / Force Manipulation
..Target orbiting (radius, speed, axis, decay)
..Forced positional control with safety bounds
Avatar Control Effects
..Stuns / freezes (movement & rotation)
..Forced sit / unsit
..Temporary input denial (fair-use timed)
Combat-Style Interactions
..Non-lethal knockback
..Directional impulse hits
..Stack-safe effect application (no runaway spam)
Game State Enforcement
..Zone-based rule activation
..Auto-revert on exit or timeout
..Death / reset hooks (non-destructive)
Scoring & Tracking
..Session-based score counters
..Kill / hit / objective tallies
..Memory-safe stat lifecycle
Player Eligibility Logic
..Opt-in / opt-out handling
..Immunity flags (admin / role based)
..Cooldown enforcement
Anti-Abuse Guardrails
..Rate-limited effects
..Hard caps on concurrent forces
..Automatic cleanup on script loss / detach
Diegetic Feedback
..In-world messages only (no spam)
..Visual motion as primary feedback
..Silent failure modes when misused

Future IMAGE Possibilities:
Quest GIVER & Unique scenarios with LORE
RPG mechanics: Consumables, health, energy, magic
Trivia, Storytelling and SKIT mechanics through our IMAGE-NPC Module.
IMAGE ADMIN: Grid-Wide administration through effortless region handshake
.......Visit regions to sync data from Admin Hud, great for shared ban lists.
.......IMAGE not only does gaming, it fairly enforces your edicts.
.......Through a convenient menu which adapts to the plugins installed on each region.

..............In Testing and Development:
..............Child Gate: 90 second warn to change to adult or shown the door.
..............Exodus: When a temporary banishment is NOT enough.
..............Mailbox: grid-wide admin mail and stowage.
..............SnatchEM: Temporary landing point evasion and taxi.

I think that little list should keep me busy for a while... If you find this project intriguing please come to xoaox.de:7000 and see it in action, the IMAGE Portal drops you into our TEST ARENA!

As STATED on WALL POSTS: BUG reports are sent in-world through the feedback panel on the KILLBOARD.

Ultimately, this is how I plan to spend my retirement... doing something I enjoy... designing ORIGINAL content for opensim.

This is a forum of collaborative ideas for a project designed to be 'free as in freedom'. Make something awesome from this!

Thanks to all who have dropped in and given feedback, IMAGE is not the same game engine it was a couple of days ago. Now we are starting to have a polished gaming framework. We have a new tracing weapon and spatial audio which will work with most finicky viewers and their permission requests. This thing has lots of features and lots of fun. Beta testers get a nice perk for beating the hell out of IMAGE, so bring your army and fight off the grugs! LETS BREAK IT so that I can make it genius proof. xoaox.de:7000 Touch the 'IMAGE Portal' to enter the Arena.