First, I’m giving my usual state of the hypergrid talk at 3:30 p.m. Pacific time. I’ll be doing a roundup of this year’s top news and OpenSim statistics.
Then, at 4 p.m. Pacific, I’ll be talking about how generative AI will change content creation and coding.
I have been covering AI quite a bit lately, especially for CIO magazine. You can see all my latest AI articles here. As part of that, I’ve been talking to CEOs, CIOs and other senior executives at companies around the world, as well as leading experts on AI and the vendors building the technology. It doesn’t hurt that I have a degree in mathematics and can read the research papers. My own undergraduate research, funded by the NSF, was about a dynamical systems approach to differential equations. If you want more AI, and want to see me in the physical world, I’ll be the keynote speaker at the 2024 Data and AI Summit in March.
About the conference
It’s the eleventh annual OpenSimulator Community Conference, celebrating the community and development of the OpenSimulator opensource software. It will feature over 70 speakers leading presentations, workshops, panel sessions, and social events across the diversity of the OpenSimulator user base.
This year’s conference kicks off yesterday with networking events and today there will be art tours and music performances. The conference then features two days of dynamic presentations on Saturday and Sunday–including a hypergrid shopping tour and a closing night party on Sunday. There will also be more community events and tours following the conference weekend.
Attending the conference event is free, but those wishing to financially support the conference can still sponsor or participate in its crowdfunder campaign when registering. Participants in the crowdfunding cCampaign will receive a variety of thank-you gifts depending upon their level of participation, including conference VIP seating and the ability to have a virtual expo booth at the event. The conference sponsorship or crowdfunder contribution is tax-deductible to the extent allowable by law for US residents.
You can also choose to register to have an avatar account created for you locally on the OSCC conference grid server or hypergrid to OSCC via your home grid avatar.
As usual this time of year, activity on OpenSim grids is up as people spend more time inside on the computer, and grids ramp up for holiday events.
Compared to last month, the number of active users is up by nearly 1,700. The total land area is down, however, by the equivalent of 5,423 standard regions.
Land area would have increased this month except for the fact that OSgrid, the largest grid in OpenSim, lost 6,684 regions.
That’s due to a regular cleanup carried out this month, grid owner Dan Banner told Hypergrid Business.
OSgrid is a free-to-connect grid, where people can download the OSgrid region installer software on their home computers and run regions themselves, for free. These regions are only up, however, when those computers are active and connected. OSgrid reserves map locations for region owners but, if they haven’t been up for a while, clears away those map reservations so that other people can use them. Region numbers typically go up again when people reconnect their regions and reclaim their spots — or find new ones.
There were also some outages that affected the stats this month. TheKaz Grid, for example, is currently offline — and had 2,110 regions last month. Active user counts were also depressed by outages. Grids that were down this month include the Floyd grid, which had 133 actives last month, Piggy Bank Grid which had 634 actives, Vivo Sim which had 421 actives, and Goldor Grid which had 163 active users last month.
We are now tracking a total of 2,642 grids, of which 337 are active and 273 published their statistics this month. The rest do not have accessible public stats pages. The metaverse now spans an area of 125,877 total standard region equivalents, 95 percent of which is hypergriddable. There are nearly half a million total users out of which 44,184 are active. If you have a stats page that we’re not tracking, please email us at david@hypergridbusiness.com or maria@hypergridbusiness.com — that way, your grid will be mentioned in this report every month, for additional visibility with both search engines and users.
In summary, the Wolf Territories Grid is the new biggest grid by total region count of 26,768, ZetaWorlds is the fastest growing grid after adding 1,546 new regions in a month, OSgrid is the most popular by total active users or 5,265, Endless grid earned the most active users in a month or 448, and Eureka World registered the highest number of users or 565 in a month.
Total OpenSim virtual land area in standard regions over time. (Hypergrid Business Data.).
Our stats do not include many of the grids running on DreamGrid which is a distribution of OpenSim since these tend to be private grids.
DreamGrid has so far recorded more than 3,000 unique DreamGrids that have launched since it was launched, according to Micro Technology Services CEO Fred Beckhusen. Micro Technology Services owns both DreamGrid and OutWorldz.
Fred Beckhusen
The total list of grids for which OutWorldz reports stats is available here. Anyone can easily add their grid to this list from the same page.
With the free-to-use DreamGrid software, anyone can easily create virtual worlds through a graphical interface and one-click install feature on their home computer. They can also use it to easily and quickly manage their grids, including adding new regions, banning users, deleting regions, auto restarting, tracking usage stats, and shutting down entire grids or unoccupied regions to save computing power. Learn here how to create and host a new Dreamgrid on your home computer using the software.
OpenSim is a free open-source, virtual world platform, that’s similar to Second Life and allows people with no technical skills to quickly and cheaply create virtual worlds and teleport to other virtual worlds. Those with technical skills can run OpenSim worlds on their own servers for free using either DreamGrid, the official OpenSim installer for those who are more technically inclined, or any other distribution, while commercial hosting starts at less than $5 a region.
Every month on the 15th — right after the stats report comes out — we will be sending out a newsletter with all the OpenSim news from the previous month. You can subscribe here or fill out the form below.
Top 25 grids by active users
When it comes to general-purpose social grids, especially closed grids, the rule of thumb is the busier the better. People looking to make new friends look for grids that already have the most users. Merchants looking to sell content will go to the grids with the most potential customers. Event organizers looking for the biggest audience — you get the idea.
The active list is based on active, unique 30-day user login numbers that grids report on their stats pages. Those grids that don’t report their numbers might be just as popular, but we wouldn’t know. The most popular grids are also not necessarily the most active.
The active user stats are used to generate the popular hypergrid destinations list, which is useful if you have a hypergrid teleport and want to put up gates to the most popular grids or include the most popular grids in an in-world directory. This list is also a good place to start if you want to open up new stores, hold events, or are just looking for places to visit.
Eureka World registered the most users in the past month with 565, followed by OSgrid with 291, AvatarLife with 227, Kitely with 112, and Darkheart’s Playground with 79 new registered users.
Here’s some information on how and why you should set up a stats page for your grid. Not all grids need a stats page — especially grids that aren’t open to the public like school grids, private company grids, small family grids, and so on. From prior surveys, this dark metaverse of OpenSim grids is significantly bigger than the one we know about, because those grids don’t need to promote themselves, and we never hear about them.
Online marketplaces for OpenSim content
There are currently 20,500 product listings in Kitely Market containing 40,366 product variations, 35,192 of which are exportable.
As seen from the above chart, nearly all the growth in Kitely Market has been in content that can be exported to other grids — that is the green area in the chart. The red area, of non-exportable content, has stayed level for the past seven years.
Offering a convenient and low-cost way for OpenSim users to buy legitimate, legal content not only offers creators sales opportunities that they wouldn’t have otherwise but reduces the need for pirated content, similar to the way that Netflix and other streaming services have reduced the amount of illegal video streaming.
In addition, restricting content to closed grids does little to stop piracy. Most stolen content is ripped from Second Life, the original closed grid. The only time that being on a closed grid offers additional security for content creators is when the content involves high-end scripts or proprietary animations.
Speaking of closed grids — where users are not able to teleport to other grids — the biggest such grid, Tag, also has its online marketplace. The marketplace lists 30,031 items both for sale and free.
Neverworld Grid Marketplace is another option for OpenSim grids and does support hypergrid shoppers. The site currently lists around 100 items for sale to both residents and hypergridders. It is a place for sourcing free and extremely cheap items since most are priced at under $3. In-world delivery for items is not yet available but it is being worked on. Items can be bought and downloaded from the shop.
AvatarLife grid‘s virtual world marketplace is mainly for gamers and currently lists about 26 items that include skill gaming, furniture, clothing, decor, textures, breedables, animations, art, and complete avatars. It already does in-world deliveries for items similar to Kitely and TAG but is accessible to residents only.
OpenSim grid news
Thanksgiving Day at Littlefield Grid
(Image courtesy Littlefield grid.).
Littlefield Grid will host a full-day celebration Thanksgiving Day starting at 3 a.m. Pacific Time on Thursday, November 23, at the Stonehaven Island and Speakeasy regions. Various activities are planned for the day including WLFG radio music sessions every hour on the hour, to recreate the famous WKRP turkey drop at Littlefield Mall, with Les Nesman and Dr. Johnny Fever. WLFG radio will be playing Alice’s Restaurant all day every hour on the hour.
A Thanksgiving dinner will be served all day starting at 6 a.m. Pacific Time at Stonehaven Island and a Thanksgiving Dance Party will take place from 8 p.m. Pacific Time at the Speakeasy Dance Club.
The hypergrid addresses are lfgrid.com:8002:Stonehaven and lfgrid.com:8002:Speakeasy.
Christmas Island region opens at Littlefield in readiness for Christmas and winter events
(Image courtesy Littlefield grid.).
Littlefield’s annual Christmas Island will open on Saturday, November 25 in readiness for Christmas-themed events, decorations, and items, grid spokesman Walter Balzic told Hypergrid Business. The Christmas Mall, which is located on the island, will have free decorations, freebies, Christmas gifts, Christmas-themed decorations and other related items that can be picked by all.
Visitors can also find Santa’s Castle, Santa flying Sleighride, Christmas Sleighride, ice skating with free ice skates, and many other attractions.
(Image courtesy Littlefield grid.).
The region will also host a Christmas Eve dance at 9 p.m. on Sunday, December 24 and a Christmas Day dance from 8 p.m. Pacific Time on Monday, December 25.
The hypergrid address is lfgrid.com:Christmas Island.
Neverworld offers free prims on new rentals to celebrate eighth birthday
Neverworld just celebrated its eighth birthday on a new region known as NWBB8 which is still up. The grid is therefore offering prims increments on new virtual region rentals. All new regions ordered by December 31 will be awarded free additional prims.
“Each quarter a rented region will complete it will be awarded 5,000 additional prims — up to 15,000 prims more per region for the life of the region on any new sims ordered by December 31,” ” grid owner Govega Sachertore told Hypergrid Business.
The NWBB8 region will be online for a few more weeks so everyone can get a chance to visit, he added. “We have freebies all over the region that are exclusive to the grid. The region has a lot of very detailed region showcases, some of them were shrunk in size to make a miniature rendering of the actual full-sized region. There are landmarks at each showcase parcel.”
Live on Mars at Neverworld grid
(image courtesy Neverworld grid.).
Neverworld grid has recreated the Martian near-future movie Total Recall from the 1990’s at the Virtual Recall region. Grid residents and visitors can now experience what it feels like to live under glass in the region. They can save the planet at the Pyramid Mines, live at the Mars Hilton Hotel, or roam around collecting various freebies at the region which include avatars based on movie characters.
The beautiful Mars Hilton Hotel has apartments available for rent and dwellers can decorate the rooms the way they want, and even add more walls and furniture. They can just sit and watch red dust as it swirls over the dome or walk over to the nearby stores that have themed gifts, clothing, avatars, and furniture. There also is a penthouse sun deck for basking in the hot tub.
The hypergrid address is hg.neverworldgrid.com:8002:Virtual Recall.
World Techno Day on December 9
ZetaWorlds will host a virtual World Techno Day Techno Party at 10 a.m. Pacific Standard Time on December 9 at The Vault — which is the first event venue at the Event region — featuring DJ Tanya playing her famous trance mixes, DJ Mattie with Techno Live series of music for two hours in the afternoon, and DJ Nora playing a Supermix.
The hypergrid address is hg.zetaworlds.com:80:Events.
Techno Day is a day mainly dedicated to celebrating the evolution of the Techno music genre, an electronic dance music that originated in Detroit, Michigan, in the late 1980s. The Techno music is a genre created using electronic instruments, such as synthesizers, sequencers, or drum machines. It features classic acid house to hardstyle and drum and bass. People reflect on the evolution of electronic music over the past few decades during Techno Day, which is celebrated through Techno Parties, exploring new Techno gadgets, and listening to Techno music.
Some of the most famous tracks in this genre include Cosmic Cars by Juan Atkins, Magnese by Surgeon, The Tunnel by Richie Hawtin, Electric Salsa by Sven Vath, Ghetto Kraviz by Nina Kraviz, Subzero by Ben Klock, E Dancer by Kevin Saunderson, Autobahn by Kraftwerk, and The Bells by Jeff Mills.
SilverFox Designs Mall moved to Kishaki grid
SilverFox Designs Mall is now located on the Kishaki grid. It features inventory and textures such as clothes for men and women, for instance for the Gianni avatar, as well as shoes, suits, HUDs, ties, belts, and hoodies for Athena. The team is also due to launch a WinterDream on which visitors will find an animated Train, Skilift, Mountain Cafe, Wintermarket, Ski and Sled, among other things.
The hypergrid address is kishaki.de:8002:SilverFox Designs Mall.
Sometimes, a grid changes its loginURI or website address — if that’s the case, email us and let us know and we’ll update our database.
Top 40 grids by land area
The list below is a small subset of existing OpenSim grids. We are now tracking a total of 2,642 different publicly-accessible grids, 337 of which were active this month and 273 of which published their statistics.
All region counts on this list are, whenever available, in terms of standard region equivalents. Active user counts include hypergrid visitors whenever possible.
Many school, company, or personal grids do not publish their numbers.
Meta has not seen the results it has hoped for with its investments in the VR space, with an operating loss of $31 billion. However, the recent announcement of Apple’s Vision Pro last June is set to reinvigorate the marketplace.
Rolf Illenberger
“I and the entire industry was waiting for Apple for a decade,” said Rolf Illenberger, CEO of VRDirect, which provides company software solutions to build their own VR projects. Among their clients are Porsche and T-Mobile.
The Apple Vision Pro is branded by Apple as a spacial computer, which will allow users to clearly see their surroundings, and project apps as if appearing within the physical space.
Several companies are currently involved in the virtual reality and augmented reality space, including “Meta, Apple, HTC . . . [and] Lenovo,” said Illenberger told Hypergrid Business.
Finance website Insider Monkey ranks Apple, Inc. at number one in their largest VR/AR companies, with a market cap of $2.8 trillion — though Apple doesn’t actually have an AR or VR product out yet. It ranks Meta at number six, having a market cap of $787 billion.
With Apple set to release the Vision Pro, VR is about to go mainstream, according to Illenberger.
“So I think now that Apple has joined the group of companies pushing this technology,” he continued, “it’s obvious that this is the next big thing. And it’s also obvious that these companies will, you know, continue investing billions in this technology, not only in the technology but also in the kind of adoption of this technology in the market out there.”
One major hurdle that the Apple Vision Pro will face is its price tag of $3,500, which may turn off many consumers.
“You have to see that the whole, let’s say, metaverse, technologies, VR and AR, we’re still that’s still technologies, very infant technologies,” said Illenberger on the accessibility of VR technology. “I would even argue they’re not yet in a state that it’s a mass market b2c thing at this point in time, you know, look at the look at the Apple headset and the price point, but also looking at the other available VR headsets. We’re not talking about devices that are tailored towards a mass market audience at this point in time.”
In a separate interview with Laptop, Illenberg highlighted that the initial goal of the first Vision Pro model is not to sell units but rather to create buzz for the product.
“A fair comparison might be HDTV, in say, 2006 or 2007. The motivation to announce Vision Pro now was to stimulate and nurture the ecosystem of app developers and content creators to invest in the new device, which was already happening once rumors about the device started to emerge several months ago. Hence, Vision Pro is already a great success for Apple.”
Meta Quest 3. (Image courtesy Meta.)
Meta officially launched the Meta Quest 3 during its Meta Connect event last month. Meta is also experimenting with Flamera, a VR headset that utilizes a new passthrough technology that is supposed to eliminate external feed distortion and artifacts.
OpenSim land area is at a new all-time-high of 131272 standard regions, the fourth month in a row it has set a record. Meanwhile, several grids are hosting Halloween events this month and getting ready for other fall holidays.
OpenSim active users tally is, however, down this month by around 2,000 despite being an active season, which can be attributed to downtime on a number of grids.
Major grids that we did not get stats for this month include Exolife which had 932 actives last month, One Life had 381 actives last month but is currently offline, and Sin Grid, which had 251 actives last month, but offline when we were collecting the stats. In addition, Soul Grid , which had over 1,100 actives this summer, is no longer reporting that statistic.
We are now tracking a total of 2,635 OpenSim grids, 329 of which were active this month and 280 of which published their statistics. The rest do not have accessible public stats pages. If you have a stats page that we’re not tracking, please email us at david@hypergridbusiness.com or maria@hypergridbusiness.com — that way, your grid will be mentioned in this report every month, for additional visibility with both search engines and users.
Monthly OpenSim land area counts. (Hypergrid Business data October 2023.)
OSgrid, Wolf Territories Grid, and Kitely are the three largest grids by land area this month, as they have been for a while now. The list of the top 40 largest grids by land area is at the bottom of this report.
OSgrid also tops the list of fastest-growing grids after adding 976 new regions this month.
OSgrid offers unlimited free regions to all residents — as long as people run them on their home computers. They have an easy region installer here. No wonder they’re the largest grid in OpenSim.
Our stats do not include many of the grids running on DreamGrid which is a distribution of OpenSim since these tend to be private grids.
DreamGrid has so far recorded a total of 3,435 unique DreamGrids that have launched since DreamGrid started, according to Micro Technology Services CEO Fred Beckhusen. Micro Technology Services owns both DreamGrid and OutWorldz.
Fred Beckhusen
The total list of grids for which OutWorldz reports stats is available here. Anyone can easily add their grid to this list from the same page.
With the free-to-use DreamGrid software, anyone can easily create virtual worlds through a graphical interface and one-click install feature on their home computer. They can also use it to easily and quickly manage their grids, including adding new regions, banning users, deleting regions, auto restarting, tracking usage stats, and shutting down entire grids or unoccupied regions to save computing power. Learn here how to create and host a new Dreamgrid on your home computer using the software.
OpenSim is a free open-source, virtual world platform, that’s similar to Second Life and allows people with no technical skills to quickly and cheaply create virtual worlds and teleport to other virtual worlds. Those with technical skills can run OpenSim worlds on their own servers for free using either DreamGrid, the official OpenSim installer for those who are more technically inclined, or any other distribution, while commercial hosting starts at less than $5 a region.
Every month on the 15th — right after the stats report comes out — we will be sending out a newsletter with all the OpenSim news from the previous month. You can subscribe here or fill out the form below.
Top 25 grids by active users
When it comes to general-purpose social grids, especially closed grids, the rule of thumb is the busier the better. People looking to make new friends look for grids that already have the most users. Merchants looking to sell content will go to the grids with the most potential customers. Event organizers looking for the biggest audience — you get the idea.
The active list is based on active, unique 30-day user login numbers that grids report on their stats pages. Those grids that don’t report their numbers might be just as popular, but we wouldn’t know. The most popular grids are also not necessarily the most active.
OpenSim Fest grid registered the highest number of active users with 348 due to the just concluded annual OpenSim Fest conference, followed by the Wolf Territories grid with 218, Goldor Grid — a new grid — has 163, The E Grid has 159, and Craft World — which hosted the annual Hypergrid International Expo — registered 150 new active users.
The active user stats are used to generate the popular hypergrid destinations list, which is useful if you have a hypergrid teleport and want to put up gates to the most popular grids or include the most popular grids in an in-world directory. This list is also a good place to start if you want to open up new stores, hold events, or are just looking for places to visit.
OSgrid registered the most number of users within the past month with 325, followed by AvatarLife with 164, Eureka World with 87, Kitely with 80, and Alternate Metaverse with 77.
Here’s some information on how and why you should set up a stats page for your grid. Not all grids need a stats page — especially grids that aren’t open to the public like school grids, private company grids, small family grids, and so on. From prior surveys, this dark metaverse of OpenSim grids is significantly bigger than the one we know about, because those grids don’t need to promote themselves, and we never hear about them.
Online marketplaces for OpenSim content
There are currently 20,466 product listings in Kitely Market containing 40,309 product variations, 35,140 of which are exportable.
As seen from the above chart, nearly all the growth in Kitely Market has been in content that can be exported to other grids — that is the green area in the chart. The red area, of non-exportable content, has stayed level for the past seven years.
Offering a convenient and low-cost way for OpenSim users to buy legitimate, legal content not only offers creators sales opportunities that they wouldn’t have otherwise but reduces the need for pirated content, similar to the way that Netflix and other streaming services have reduced the amount of illegal video streaming.
In addition, restricting content to closed grids does little to stop piracy. Most stolen content is ripped from Second Life, the original closed grid. The only time that being on a closed grid offers additional security for content creators is when the content involves high-end scripts or proprietary animations.
Speaking of closed grids — where users are not able to teleport to other grids — the biggest such grid, Tag, also has its online marketplace. The marketplace lists 29,950 items both for sale and free.
Some of the items listed for sale on The Adult grid. (image courtesy TAG grid.).
Neverworld Grid Marketplace is another option for OpenSim grids and does support hypergrid shoppers. The site currently lists around 100 items for sale to both residents and hypergridders. It is a place for sourcing free and extremely cheap items since most are priced at under $3.
Govega Sachertorte
“At the moment the marketplace for in-world delivery is still pending, with a few possible developers interested in doing this project,” grid owner Govega Sachertorte told Hypergrid Business.
The admins are also inviting anyone to list their items on the marketplace.
Neverworld also offers free virtual land to residents who can then set up shop and craft or bring in virtual items for sale or give away at the marketplace. The free parcels measure from 3,000 to 16,000 meters in size and can support up to 5,000 prims.
The grid website is now a jopensim-enabled website. Neverworld also offers a free region server to anyone who wants to self-host a region or grid on Neverworld. To do so, you need to download and install the server software on your machine, ensure the router ports are open as required, and run the .bin file as per instructions on this link then set up a region.
AvatarLife grid launches a marketplace for gaming and other items
(Image courtesy AvatarLife grid.).
AvatarLife grid has opened a new virtual world marketplace which currently lists about 26 items in 24 categories that include skill gaming, furniture, clothing, decor, textures, breedables, animations, art, and complete avatars. There also are Halloween and fall-themed items listed. The market is, however, only accessible to the grid’s residents since it is a closed grid.
Items are priced and traded in the grid currency AV$. The market also does in-world deliveries for all purchases similar to the Kitely Marketplace, said grid spokesperson Bob Young. Visitors can also find freebies, game demos, and scripts, but there currently are no OARs, brand name content creations, or exclusive content listed for sale, he added.
“As we are in very early stages, such content is not listed at this very moment, but hopefully we will have them soon,” Young told Hypergrid Business.
“Aargle Zymurgy, the creator of the famous skill game Zyngo has listed this game and probably future games in our marketplace,” he added. “Zyngo is widely considered to be the game that played a major role in the skill games expansion in Second Life.”
The game currently can not be found on any other marketplace. Another game due for listing on the marketplace is Deep Sting’s fishing game, Crypto Fish. He will be listing multiple new fishing rods for residents to fish with different reward systems on each different rod, AvatarLife CEO Shushant Chandrasekar told Hypergrid Business.
The hypergrid address is grid.kitely.com:8002:Creative Collaborators.
Breakfast movies at the Funsize Dinkies in Alternate Metaverse grid
Movie Park at Funsize Dinkies. (Image courtesy Funsize Dinkies region.).
The Funsize Dinkies region on Alternate Metaverse grid is hosting movie mornings every week during this Halloween season. The Rocky Horror Picture Show will play at the Movie Park at 7:30 a.m. Pacific time on October 15, Beetlejuice on October 22, and The Addams Family on October 29.
The hypergrid address is alternatemetaverse.com:8002:Funsize Dinkies.
Everyone is also welcome for the open Autumnfest Fishing event at the same region from 8:00 a.m. Pacific Time on October 24.
Zombie Apocalypse at Spirit Rock Ranch in Discovery Grid
(Image courtesy Spirit Rock Ranch.).
The Spirit Rock Ranch region on Discovery Grid will, from 9:30 a.m. Pacific Time on October 28, host an adventure game that involves participant avatars taking down zombies that are threatening to over-run the region. Gamers choose the weapon of their choice at the region.
Visitors can also play other adventures almost every Saturday morning including surfing, dune buggies, sailing, horse riding, target shooting, big game hunting, and more.
The hypergrid address is discoverygrid.net:8002:Spirit Rock Ranch.
Conectados’ first-ever event will be a Halloween event
Conectados, a relatively new grid, will host a Halloween DJ event at 2:00 p.m. Pacific time on October 27 at the Your Dream region. You can pick a Halloween costume for the event at the grid’s stores.
The hypergrid address is conectados.opensim.fun:8802.
OpenMic every Saturday at OSGrid
(Image courtesy Parsons Creek Lodge.).
All musicians, singers, poets, and spoken word artists are invited to an OpenMic individual presentations event from 7:00 a.m. Pacific Time on October 28 at the Parsons Creek Lodge region in OSgrid. The region also hosts regular live events at 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. every Saturday morning.
The hypergrid address is hg.osgrid.org:80:Parsons Creek Lodge.
AvatarLife launches single-player Wild Poker game
AvatarLife has introduced a single-player game mode on its Wild Poker game which launched with the multi-player mode in July 2023. With the single-player mode Wild Poker game, one or three people can play against the computer. The game is based on the Texas Hold’em poker game and players can win prizes in both single and multi-player modes.
AvatarLife to host Halloween Hunt and Party
AvatarLife grid is hosting a Halloween Hunt similar to the Easter Egg hunt. The hunt started about a week ago and will continue until the end of the month. It is taking place on 30 different locations.
It involves hidden gems including 30 quality mesh decor and Halloween-themed furniture to be found. Collect them all to have a complete Halloween set and win prizes. Different clues will be given.
There also will be a four-hour Halloween Bash for Cash party from 1 p.m. Pacific Time on Saturday, October 21 at the Creep Club’s Gaming Paradise region, hosted by AOS Gaming Paradise, a third-party games provider. It will feature DJ Kris and DJ Kelly and prize money will be given to attendants on the same day.
“We have a starting prize fund of 125,000 AV$ which is about $500,” Young told Hypergrid Business. “Money will be given out every few minutes by a random moneygiver. There will also be a best outfit competition.”
The hypergrid address is avatarlife.com:8002:Gaming Paradise.
Sometimes, a grid changes its loginURI or website address — if that’s the case, email us and let us know and we’ll update our database.
Top 40 grids by land area
The list below is a small subset of existing OpenSim grids. We are now tracking a total of 2,635 different publicly-accessible grids, 329 of which were active this month and 280 of which published their statistics.
All region counts on this list are, whenever available, in terms of standard region equivalents. Active user counts include hypergrid visitors whenever possible.
Many school, company, or personal grids do not publish their numbers.
It’s that time of year again when the open metaverse community comes together to share developments at the annual OpenSimulator Community Conference. The organizers have put out the call for presentation proposals for the 2023 event happening December 9 and 10.
This will be the eleventh year for the community-run conference, which spotlights the latest innovations in the OpenSim virtual world platform. The focus this year is on “inspiring our imagination and energizing our community” with talks from artists, educators, entrepreneurs, and builders at the forefront of shaping the open metaverse.
The call welcomes ideas from individuals or groups that demonstrate the “WOWNESS” of virtual worlds. Presenters are encouraged to share dramatic stories and make use of 3D props and visuals during their talks. The conference wants to highlight virtual worlds as a medium for creativity, enriched experiences, and real-world impact.
In addition to 30-plus main stage presentations, the two-day event includes evening social gatherings with live music and art exhibits. There is also a launch party on Friday, December 8, to kick things off. The community also sponsors tours and events across the hypergrid after the main conference wraps up.
Previous conferences have drawn as many as 800 attendees to hear the latest on OpenSim development, innovative community projects, and the possibilities of interconnected virtual worlds.
If you have a great idea for a talk, workshop, panel, or demo, submit your proposal by the October 15th deadline. Help show what’s driving creativity and connection in the open metaverse this year.
Full details on the call for proposals can be found on the conference website.
The event is organized by the metaverse-focused nonprofit AvaCon, Inc. You can watch videos from the previous years of the conference on the AvaCon YouTube channel.
Hypergrid Business is a media sponsor, and I’ll probably be doing my usual stats presentation and moderating a panel. If you have any ideas for a panel, email me at maria@hypergridbusiness.com.
Important Dates & Deadlines
October 2 – Announcement of the Call for Proposals!
October 22 – Proposals are due by 11:59 p.m. Pacific time
October 30 – Proposal acceptance emails and with conference information.
November 17 – Accepted speakers must register for the conference to create an entry in the conference schedule and the program.
November 11 & 18 – Speaker orientation and training sessions and presenter booth setup to prepare speakers for the conference.
November 27 – Deadline for stage props and audio-visuals (beyond textures) for the conference program.
HIE Welcome Center. (Image courtesy Hypergrid International Expo.).
This year’s Hypergrid International Expo kicks off at 11 a.m. Pacific Time on Friday, October 6 at the HIE’s Auditorium in Craft World grid, featuring an opening party with music from Zoree Jupiter at 11 a.m., Arianna Nightfire at 1 p.m., and Forest Azure at 10 p.m. Pacific Time.
“The three artists will bring us an international mix of songs on a unique music stage built by Nyx Breen with a sort of crosswords in all languages theme,” Thirza Ember, one of the planning committee members, told Hypergrid Business.
The event, which showcases the diversity and various cultures in OpenSim, will run through Saturday and Sunday, September 8. It is open to all hypergrid visitors and will be broadcast live on the HIE YouTube channel.
The hypergrid event attracts exhibitions, artists, and speakers from all around OpenSim. Please see the full schedule on this link.
The main activities will take place on Saturday and Sunday starting from 9 a.m. Pacific Time. Three different sessions are planned each day — two sessions dedicated to talks in the normal conference format and the other session to artistic displays.
The teleports to the different regions are located at the Welcome region of Craft World grid.
The hypergrid address is craft-world.org:8002:HIE Welcome.
The hypergrid address to the auditorium is craft-world.org:8002:HIE 4.
Addresses to the other areas dedicated to the event are craft-world.org:8002:HIE 2 and craft-world.org:8002:HIE 3.
Craft World is an ideal place to host the event because the different language groups needed for the event are already operational there, it is a popular grid, and many of the presenters already have avatars on the grid, said Thirza Ember in an interview.
Exhibitions, art, music, and speakers from around OpenSim
HIE Auditorium. (Image courtesy HIE.).
This year’s event features over 70 exhibition booths covering three OpenSim regions and showcasing work from different people around OpenSim, including grid and region owners and OpenSim creators and artists. The exhibitions will take place at the Expo Park next to the Auditorium region. Different exhibitors will tell the story of their grids and regions, advertise their grids and regions with textures and using personalized booths or by providing their web page links at the booths, showcase any projects they have, and give away freebies, souvenirs, note cards, and other items which are usually in full perm.
Art performances and music will take place at the Auditorium — which consists of four sims — including four art performances by Range Darkstone, Lampithaler Artist, CapCat Ragu, Tosha Tyran, and Cherry Manga.
This year’s event speakers are drawn from different OpenSim grids, including Craft World, OSGrid, Pangea Grid, CreaNovale, and SV3D. They will address a range of topics and issues from the experience of living in OpenSim to technical tricks with scripts. HIE streams the audio using Discord so as to be heard across region boundaries. You can find the presentation subtitles in-world through the HIE groups.
Presentations in five languages
Speakers at the HIE event give their presentations in five languages — French, German, Portuguese, Italian, and Spanish — unlike the OpenSim Community Conference where all presenters speak English.
However, the audience in the HIE does not need to know the languages in which the speakers are presenting because they can follow all of the presentations through subtitles in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. By allowing for presentations in languages other than English, the event will give a chance to people who want to make presentations in those languages and also embrace cultural variations in language and other things.
The event is organized by Mal Burns, James Atlloud, Kelso Uxlay, Tosha Tyran, and Thirza Ember. However, there are other volunteers, including the streaming and filming team, translators team, booth makers, admins, greeters, speakers, planning committee, and performers.
Resonite, a new social VR platform from the principal creator behind metaverse app Neos VR, is set to launch into early access on SteamVR headsets this week.
Update (October 3rd, 2023): Resonite is slated to launch on October 6th at 11:00 AM PT (local time here) on Steam. The developers say the app is now ready to make its first steps into Early Access:
“We reached a point where we are confident that major issues will be sorted out and we’d generally prefer not to make all of you wait longer and delay the launch. There will still probably be some bumps, but we’ll smooth them out as time goes,” the studio announced on its Patreon.
“We’re very excited to open the new platform and experience our work. We have a lot more for store in you as well coming in the future. The launch is just beginning of this new digital universe and with your help and support, we’ll continue shaping and expanding for many years (and hopefully decades) into the future.”
Resonite seems to have already resonated with backers, as the metaverse platform is now garnering over $25,000 per month through Patreon. Check it out on Steam here. The original article follows below:
Original Article (September 25th, 2023): There’s a fair bit of drama surrounding Neos VR, something you can read up on over at Ryan Schulz’s blog, which delves into the cryptocurrency-fueled rift between principal developer Tomáš “Frooxius” Mariančík and Karel Hulec, CEO of the app’s publisher Sorilax. The two have completely parted ways, with Hulec still managing Neos while Mariančík is now heading a new team developing Resonite.
From what by all accounts was a bitter split, Resonite is emerging from the controversy, bringing with it what Mariančík describes as a “novel digital universe with infinite possibilities.”
“Whether you resonate with people around the world in a casual conversation, playing games and socializing or you riff off each other when creating anything from art to programming complex games, you’ll find your place here,” the app’s Steam description reads.
Like Neos VR, Resonite heavily focuses on in-app content creation, allowing users to create their own interactive avatars, art, gadgets, and “complex interactive worlds and games.”
There’s no release date yet for Resonite (see update), however the app’s Steam page says it’s launching into early access sometime in October. Whatever the case, Resonite doesn’t appear to have ambitions to launch on Quest, PSVR 2, or mobile hardware currently, essentially setting it up to be a PC-exclusive experience likely appealing mostly to enthusiasts.
We’re curious to learn more about Resonite, and what sets it apart from Neos. Whatever the case, there seems to be a fairly substantial expected migration of Neos users to Resonite, as Resonite’s Patreon page already boasts over $14,000 monthly donations.
According to cached pages, support for Neos VR’s Patreon has decreased significantly in the past two years since the project included its own cryptocurrency and friction arose between its creators; near its all-time high of over $18,000 per-month donations, today Neos garners a little under $5,000 per month from backers.
OpenSim land area has passed 130,000 standard region equivalents this month, for a new all-time high. This is the second month in a row that OpenSim has set a land record. The total number of regions grew by over 2,000 over the past month. Registered users also increased, by more than 5,000, and active users increased by more than 800.
Traffic is expected to be even higher in the next month because the annual OSFest kicked off today.
We are now tracking a total of 2,620 OpenSim grids, 431 of which were active and 269 of which published their statistics this month. The rest do not have accessible public stats pages. If you have a stats page that we’re not tracking, please email us at david@hypergridbusiness.com or maria@hypergridbusiness.com — that way, your grid will be mentioned in this report every month, for additional visibility with both search engines and users.
Oh, the total number of active grids was also a record high this month.
OpenSim land area, in standard region equivalents. (Hypergrid Business Data.)
OSgrid, a free-to-connect, non-profit world, now has an equivalent of 29,770 standard-sized regions in total, followed by Wolf Territories Grid with 25,504 regions, Kitely with 18,301, ZetaWorlds with 10,386, and Alternate Metaverse with 9,949 regions.
OSgrid offers unlimited free regions to all residents — as long as people run them on their home computers. They have an easy region installer here. No wonder they’re the largest grid in OpenSim.
ZetaWorlds, on the other hand, offers two-by-two regions with 75,000 prims for €18.99 (US $21) per month with other configuration options also available. Groovyverse land prices start at $25 per month for a region that can be configured to be as big as 16 by 16 standard regions. Both grids also offer free land parcels to residents.
DreamGrid has so far recorded a total of 3,435 unique DreamGrids that have launched since DreamGrid started, according to Micro Technology Services CEO Fred Beckhusen. Micro Technology Services owns both DreamGrid and OutWorldz.
Our stats also do not include many of the grids running on DreamGrid since these tend to be private grids.
Fred Beckhusen
The total list of grids for which OutWorldz reports stats is available here. Anyone can easily add their grid to this list from the same page.
With the free-to-use DreamGrid software, users can easily create virtual worlds through a graphical interface and one-click install feature. They can also use it to easily and quickly manage their grids, including adding new regions, banning users, deleting regions, auto restarting, tracking usage stats, and shutting down entire grids or unoccupied regions to save computing power. Learn here how to create and host a new Dreamgrid on your home computer using the software.
OpenSim is a free open-source, virtual world platform, that’s similar to Second Life and allows people with no technical skills to quickly and cheaply create virtual worlds and teleport to other virtual worlds. Those with technical skills can run OpenSim worlds on their own servers for free using either DreamGrid, the official OpenSim installer for those who are more technically inclined, or any other distribution, while commercial hosting starts at less than $5 a region.
Every month on the 15th — right after the stats report comes out — we will be sending out a newsletter with all the OpenSim news from the previous month. You can subscribe here or fill out the form below.
Top 25 grids by active users
When it comes to general-purpose social grids, especially closed grids, the rule of thumb is the busier the better. People looking to make new friends look for grids that already have the most users. Merchants looking to sell content will go to the grids with the most potential customers. Event organizers looking for the biggest audience — you get the idea.
The active list is based on active, unique 30-day user login numbers that grids report on their stats pages. Those grids that don’t report their numbers might be just as popular, but we wouldn’t know. The most popular grids are also not necessarily the most active.
Little Big City is this month’s greatest gainer in the number of active users with 406 new active users, followed by the new Herederos Grid with 324 actives, Eureka World and GBG World both with 302, and Trianon World with 272.
The active user stats are used to generate the popular hypergrid destinations list, which is useful if you have a hypergrid teleport and want to put up gates to the most popular grids or include the most popular grids in an in-world directory. This list is also a good place to start if you want to open up new stores, hold events, or are just looking for places to visit.
Eureka World registered the highest number of users this month with 393 users, followed by OSgrid with 342, AvatarLife with 167, Kitely with 132, and the new Herederos Grid with 90 newly registered users.
Here’s some information on how and why you should set up a stats page for your grid. Not all grids need a stats page — especially grids that aren’t open to the public like school grids, private company grids, small family grids, and so on. From prior surveys, this dark metaverse of OpenSim grids is significantly bigger than the one we know about, because those grids don’t need to promote themselves, and we never hear about them.
Online marketplaces for OpenSim content
There are currently 20,180 product listings in Kitely Market containing 39,935 product variations, 34,821 of which are exportable.
As seen from the above chart, nearly all the growth in Kitely Market has been in content that can be exported to other grids — that is the green area in the chart. The red area, of non-exportable content, has stayed level for the past seven years.
Offering a convenient and low-cost way for OpenSim users to buy legitimate, legal content not only offers creators sales opportunities that they wouldn’t have otherwise but reduces the need for pirated content, similar to the way that Netflix and other streaming services have reduced the amount of illegal video streaming.
In addition, restricting content to closed grids does little to stop piracy. Most stolen content is ripped from Second Life, the original closed grid. The only time that being on a closed grid offers additional security for content creators is when the content involves high-end scripts or proprietary animations.
Speaking of closed grids — where users are not able to teleport to other grids — the biggest such grid, Tag, also has its online marketplace. The marketplace lists 29,950 items both for sale and free.
Some of the items listed for sale on The Adult grid. (image courtesy TAG grid.).
Neverworld Grid Marketplace is another option for OpenSim grids and does support hypergrid shoppers. The site currently has a few dozen items for sale to both residents and hypergridders. It is a place for sourcing free and extremely cheap items since most are priced at under $3.
(Image courtesy Neverworld grid.).
Neverworld also offers free virtual land to residents who can then set up shop and craft or bring in virtual items for sale or give away at the marketplace. The free parcels measure from 3,000 to 16,000 meters in size and can support up to 5,000 prims, grid owner Govega Sachertorte told Hypergrid Business.
Neverworld also offers a free region server to anyone who wants to self-host a region or grid on Neverworld. To do so, you need to download and install the server software on your machine, ensure the router ports are open as required, and run the .bin file as per instructions on this link then set up a region.
OpenSim grid news
OSFest 2023 kicks off
(image courtesy OSFest.).
This year’s annual OpenSim’s largest hypergrid event OpenSim Fest — which attracts thousands of participants including sponsors, builders, exhibitors, artists, musicians, merchants, grid owners, and OpenSim enthusiasts from around the hypergrid — kicks off at 9.00 a.m. Pacific Time on Friday, September 15. The full calendar of events is located on this link.
Twenty-nine companies and individuals are sponsoring this year’s event, which usually takes place for 16 days and offers more than 90 hours of live performances and tours of exhibits and merchant stores. Over 140 standard region equivalents spanning a total area of nine square kilometers have been set aside for the various exhibitions, expos, performances, presentations, group and individual tours, and meetings.
In addition to sponsors, grid owners, builders, and merchants exhibiting their items, there are a host of events planned including a 10th anniversary of The Golden Touch theater at 11.00 a.m. Pacific Time on Saturday, September 16 at Golden Sky Region of the Utopia Sky Grid where the theater is hosted. There also will be group tours to exhibitor stores on Mondays and Wednesdays during the event period.
The hypergrid address to the Welcome region is grid.opensimfest.com:8022:hg-welcome.
Wish Upon a Star at the Grid Genesis Roleplay
The new Pineview Townhouse. (image courtesy Masala Al Kahov.).
The shopping area Masala Al Kahov, translated in English as “wish upon a star,” has launched on Genesis RolePlay grid. It offers original and remodeled freebies built by owners of the mall.
Here you can get, for free, their newest creation the Pineview Townhouse — a very detailed house with a garage, kitchen, living room, den or study, bedroom, bathroom, 3D windows, and a deck. The beautiful mesh is full perm copy, modify, and transfer and you can use it to beautify your grid or regions.
Masala Al Kahov also offers other freebie items like original plants, furniture, boats, English manor houses, pumpkin houses, flax flowers, and small shops. You can get items for all manner of holiday and event decorations.
The hypergrid address is grid.genesis-roleplay.org:8002:Masala Al Kohav.
I Love You Grid up and running despite devastating earthquake
Last week’s Marrakesh earthquake has left a huge loss and disruptions including to power, broadband, and telephony connectivity but I Love You Grid — whose one of the owners, DebzFox, resides in Morocco’s capital — has announced that it has made necessary arrangements to run the grid without interruptions despite the happenings.
The grid offers free land for residents, events every Tuesday, Saturday, and Sunday, and shops and a Superstore for those interested in lifestyle shopping. It also runs an open social network for anyone willing to join and radio streams that broadcast for 24 hours each day.
Littlefield held 9-11 memorial
The Memorial Region in Littlefield grid hosted the 9-11 tragedy memorial, as it does every year on September 11 of this month. The region hosts a replica of the Tower of Voices for Flight 93 among many other items that are still accessible to anyone willing to pay a visit.
The hypergrid address is lfgrid.com:8002:9-11 Memorial.
HG Safari group to tour the Luxor region in Wolf Territories Grid
HG Safari social group still continues to visit various OpenSim grids and will visit the Luxor region in Wolf Territories starting at 12:00 p.m. Pacific Time on Wednesday, September 27, and will run for two hours as usual.
Members of the international OpenSim tour group usually first meet at the HG Safari region on OSGrid at hg.osgrid.org:80:HG Safari then proceed to tour together and experience, highlight, and popularize interesting places around the hypergrid. The events are all planned with the host grid owners and it is a great way for grid owners willing to make known their interesting locations, items, and works in OpenSim.
You can know about the group’s upcoming visits or tours through its Facebook page, MeWe, and Discord group, and send a message or notecard to Thirza Ember if you are a grid or region owner who would like to host the group tour in your grid or region.
The hypergrid address is grid.wolfterritories.org:8002:Luxor.
Learn about health and disability issues at the Healthinfo Island and Virtual Ability grid
Healthinfo Island in Second Life. (image courtesy Virtual Ability.).
Virtual Ability’sHealthinfo Island region located in Second Lifenow has eight displays and exhibits meant to educate and raise awareness about different health concerns. The displays and exhibits address to obstructive sleep apnea, animal zoonotic diseases, managing sadness, coping with intense emotions, rhabdomyolysis, inflammatory bowel disease and Irritable bowel syndrome, Argh emotional meltdown, and red meat allergy.
You can click on the link provided above to teleport to the different exhibit locations, then find different posters with their descriptions about each of the various health conditions.
Virtual Ability is a US non-profit corporation with a mission to enable people with a wide range of disabilities and shares and creates awareness on physical inabilities and related support in the society through the website, Second Life, and its grid in OpenSim. The organization provides information about various health issues and links to different relevant products and services. This month, the organization is helping raise awareness about the sepsis condition now that September is Sepsis Awareness Month.
A survey of people with disabilities in the US states of Arizona, California, Hawaii, and Nevada, and the Pacific Basin is also being conducted by Robyn R Gershon, College of Global Public Health, New York University. According to the organization’s blog, the survey will provide information on how ADA Coordinators are helping people with disabilities in their local communities and how they can further be empowered to do so.
Sometimes, a grid changes its loginURI or website address — if that’s the case, email us and let us know and we’ll update our database.
Top 40 grids by land area
The list below is a small subset of existing OpenSim grids. We are now tracking a total of 2,584 different publicly-accessible grids, 419 of which were active this month, and 268 of which published their statistics.
All region counts on this list are, whenever available, in terms of standard region equivalents. Active user counts include hypergrid visitors whenever possible.
Many school, company, or personal grids do not publish their numbers.
The annual OpenSimulator Community Conference, known as OSFest, will take place September 15 through 17 inside the OSFest virtual world grid. The three-day event features live music, exhibits, talks, tours, social spaces, and shopping for attendees across the hypergrid metaverse.
This year’s OSFest offers 94 hours of presentations, panels, tours, and workshops as well as 98 hours of live music performances across four stages. Participants can explore themed exhibit builds, shop merchant stores with special deals, and socialize at parties and dance events. There is no charge to attend OSFest.
To attend OSFest 2023, users simply need an account on any hypergrid-enabled OpenSim grid and use the map to teleport over. The hypergrid address is grid.opensimfest.com:8002:hg-welcome.
“We’re excited to welcome the extended metaverse community and hypergrid travelers to this year’s OSFest,” said lead organizer Shelenn Ayres. “It’s an immersive way to connect, have fun, and experience the breadth of creativity in virtual worlds.”
The event builds on the success of previous OSFests held annually since 2017. Each year, exhibits, stages, and infrastructure are created anew by volunteers. OSFest also relies on contributions from sponsors to cover basic hosting costs for the free event.
“The generosity of sponsors and effort of volunteers is what keeps OSFest going every year,” Ayres said.
The full schedule, performer lineup, and interactive OSFest portal with information on all exhibits, presentations, and activities can be found at OpenSimFest.com.
Organizers recommend picking up a landmark box after arriving to help navigate the sprawling regions. With a theme of “Jazz Through the Ages,” costumes matching 1860s to 1970s styles are encouraged but not required.
StoryLink Radio and Seanchai Library will host a series of Halloween-themed live voice, streamed, and in-world storytelling sessions during the month of October, which is high story-telling season.
The audiences can come to the performances dressed in theme for each of the particular stories or just as they are.
As is usual for all other story sessions hosted by StoryLink, a live host or storyteller will tell the story while the audience can also participate by chatting with each other and commenting about the stories, both in-world and over StoryLink’s YouTube channel.
The hypergrid address to the Halloween Merchant Mall is grid.kitely.com:8002:octoberworld.
Horror Night at the Drive-In. (image courtesy StoryLink Radio.).
A new story every night
StoryLink will present a new short story every night throughout the month of September as countdown for Halloween continues.
The stories will cut across different genres, including haunts, ghosts, and suspense. You can follow the series on StoryLink’s YouTube Channel. The YouTube channel also currently has more than 100 archived stories for on-demand listening.
October Campout night. (image courtesy StoryLink Radio.).
Here is the series of Halloween-themed stories from StoryLink Radio:
In The Pines: This is an Appalachian ghost or horror story by Karl Edward Wagner which pre-figures The Shining, a story that was published three years ago. Time and date: 7 to 8:30 p.m. Pacific time, Thursday, September 28.
Trouble in Braids: This is a supernatural noir hard-boiled detective tale featuring Los Angeles private eye Sam Hunter who does not have a soft side but an inhuman side. Time and date: 7 to 8:30 p.m. Pacific time, Thursday, October 5.
Ghostbusters. (Image courtesy StoryLink Radio.).
Heartseeker – Space Horror: This story will explore the extraterrestrial nightmares and horrors that happen in the deepest, darkest depth of space where the stars are cold and there is no benevolent first contact or utopian worlds. Time and date: 9 to 10 p.m. Pacific time, Thursday, October 5.
Scary Stories at the Campout Sleepover: The Annual Campout Sleepover in the Haunted Forest will happen from 6 to 8 p.m. Pacific time, on Thursday, October 12. The fun and scary stories to be told are suitable for 10-year-olds and up. Come in your favorite Halloween jammies. There will be campfires, tents, sleeping bags, candles, pizzas, popcorn, candy flashlights, marshmallows, dark stormy night, and readings from Scary Stories for Sleepovers provided.
Friday Special: 1408 by Stephen King: In this story, Mike Enslin — the best selling author of true ghost stories — decides to spend the night in New York’s most haunted hotel room. The story has been made into a movie starring John Cusak, Samuel Jackson, and Tony Shalhoub. Time and date: 7 to 8 p.m. Pacific time, Friday, October 13.
Sticks: The lovecraftian, psychedelic gothic horror tale is a precursor to The Blair Witch Project. Time and date: 7 to 8:30 p.m. Pacific time, Thursday, October 19.
Haunted Irish Tales from Celtic World. (Image courtesy StoryLink Radio.).
Trio of Alien Horrors, The City of Frozen Shadows, The Black Ocean, and Graveyard: Trio of Alien Horrors unravels horrors such as happens in movies Alien, Jaws, Terminator, X-Minus One, Twilight Zone, and Outer Limits. The City of Frozen Shadows is about the last living man on Earth who hides in a gutted city that is haunted by alien exterminators. The Black Ocean is about astronauts who, adrift in a misty alien ocean, are attacked by a gigantic predator. The Graveyard story explores the deepest, darkest depths of space. The stars are cold, malevolent eyes looking across a vast vineyard of the unknown, the unnameable, and the undead. The planets are tombs, and the moons are haunted catacombs. Time and date: 7 to 8:30 p.m. Pacific time, Thursday, October 26.
A Halloween Story: A surprise Halloween-themed story about monsters and goblins. Time and date: 3 to 4 p.m. Pacific time, Thursday, October 31.
One More Pumpkin: The surprise pumpkin tale will keep your little Halloween pumpkin flame lit. Time and date: 7 to 4 p.m. Pacific time, Thursday, November 2.
Robert Bloch Haunted Art Gallery. (Image courtesy StoryLink Radio.).
Halloween-themed items at the Halloween Mall and Seanchai Library
The Halloween Mall is open all year round and harbors free Halloween and Autumn merchant items while the Seanchai Library also hosts autumn-themed presentations, poems, and stories from numerous artists and storytellers during the autumn seasons.
Robert Bloch Haunted Art Gallery. (Image courtesy StoryLink Radio.).
