Google Lively: My First Space

Well I thought I would try publishing my first lively space to the blog. There are at the time of this writing 71 space “templates” available. I picked “Superhero Underwater Headquarters”. No, I never was a big fan of aqua-man, but this seemed the most interesting space after a quick browse.

I splattered in some seating arrangements, a clock, TV, found some cool purple lanterns that give off butterflies which I thought was a nice touch for an underwater lair. Drop in a check it out here:

My main gripes so far are as follows:

• Lack of ability to create my own content, I found this one of the most fun aspects of SL, in Lively I feel more like a decorator
• No basic keyboard movements keys WSAD please!
• No ability to re-size objects at least that I could find, move and rotate only. Object orientation seems to also be automatically attempted. So placement and rotation and relative scale was tricky
• The photo gadgets which would allow you to place any Internet image onto a surface are “off-line” per support. This could be a legal or porn issue, not sure but I have no real way of customizing my space with my own content other than You Tube video streaming which lacks even basic controls.