IMAGE: A NEW GAME ENGINE FOR OPENSIM

Whew this has been an amazing year so far, I recovered my grid after a failure and now I am expanding my creativity in ways I never thought possible, then in a retirement blitz, I open sourced everything SimGEAR. Through the study of works from many wizards like Satyr, Greybox, Aine 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. I told her to teach me the HARD WAY. We built everything from the ground up in MINUTE DETAIL and I want to share this same experience with you!

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.

A nice setup to choose your plants, flower, garden supplies or statues.
All collected over the years, none made by me.
Come and have a look, you never know what you might be able to use to decorate your region.
enjoy

hop://hg.ansjelagrid.com:28002/Imaginaerum/933/174/22

HAPPY HEW YEAR!
After a major setback, Ozone Miniverse was shut down and it was planned to be permanent. I have recovered ALL SimGEAR holdings from Spax Orion and I have re-launched the server in his name. Atrius, Dismayland, Ozone and Zion are once again publicly available through xoaox.de:7000 - The grid will continue to operate as originally programmed by it's author. I will NOT be listing these regions individually, if something is happening, we will post on the wall!

Hi all,
A new collection of Gnomes for you, fullperm to decorate your region.
A review here on opensimworld.com for the region Eternity would be very much appreciated :)
hop://hg.ansjelagrid.com:28002/Eternity/567/675/24

Greetings, have my streams up: http://grid.toallchurches.net:7778/index.html | https://grid.toallchurches.net:8443/index.html Feel free to listen on your favorite media player that can play network streams, like VLC Media Player, or Copy/Paste the URL into the "Music URL" field of your "About Land" floater in the "Sound" tab at your Region/Parcel. | This is an Osgrid connected region running on my Server, although the Music stream can be played anywhere.
Or listen to it at my region here: hop://hg.osgrid.org:80/Flat%20Earth/128/128/23

Music: http://grid.toallchurches.net:7778/stream/2/
No More Sleepless Nights Audio Book: http://grid.toallchurches.net:7778/stream/1/

Thank you, Shalom

If you haven't been yet, please see Synthetic Dreams, it's an AI art show in Kitely that is part of the larger, worldwide Wrong Biennale.

This is the website:
https://www.syntheticdreams.info

This is the hop:
hop://grid.kitely.com:8002/Kitely%20Expo%20Center/118/96/2...

There are three styles of Halloween decor: the fun stylized stuff, the gory/zombie stuff, and the realistic creepy stuff. My Halloween decor at Lunaria Emporium on Wolf Territories Grid is definitely the latter and I have a nice collection of both original and curated items not available anywhere else in Opensim. You can find it on its own display area at the Emporium. Click the Gothic sign on the left as you enter the store lobby. The eep pictured above is what you will see as you enter the area if you have shared environment activated.

All of it is also available on the Kitely Market here: https://www.kitely.com/market?store=13957705&q=cemetery