Index of Major Client Projects

Here you will find information on work that we have done on various full-sim and larger client projects. This page indexes the projects, and gives general information on them. Each project will have links to a photo gallery with more details.

Home | Rutgers | U Houston | Amarin Island | Wailele and Nohona

RUCE 1, RUCE 2, RUCE 3 and RUCE 4
Rutgers University, Continuing Education:

Work started 10/2007, and was completed in 1/2009, with some ongoing support since then. The 4-sim area is in active use today and open to the public. Further expansion is planned.

RUCE 1 : A full SL Orientation Sim, with a custom-built progress tracking HUD system.

RUCE 2 : A detailed re-creation of the founding "Old Queens" Campus, in New Brunswick, NJ. This sim includes replicas of 5 buildings on the national Register of Historic Places. Pictures can not do this justice. You really need to visit and explore the buildings to see the details.

RUCE 3 : A full-sized yet low-prim replica of their football field, which acts as a sandbox and competition area.

RUCE 4 : A detailed replica of the Rutgers Student Center, as well as classroom space and "dorm buildings" that students can use for setting their home points to.



HHP at UH
University of Houston, Health and Human Performance :

Work started 8/2007, and was completed in 1/2008. The sim is in active use today and open to the public.

This project was a single full-prim sim for the University of Houston. Their requirements included low-prim academic buildings that could be used actively for teaching and lectures, with multimedia equipment in several sites in the sim. They wanted a campus that was beautiful as well as functional, with architecture remeniscent of Ivy League college campuses.

Set in a landscaped park-like setting with water features and brick paths, one special feature is a re-creation of the domed Jefferson Auditorium (original building designed by President Thomas Jefferson, for the University of Virginia).


Amarin Island
Private project for Rowland Ribble :

Work started 4/2007, ongoing improvements untl the sims were removed in 6/2008.

This project was initially a 5-sim residential island, entirely non-commercial. The client was renting one full-prim sim and 4 low-prim "Openspaces" sims, which I terraformed into a single, seamless large island that used all 5 sims. Later an additional low-prim sim was added. Unfortunately, none of these sims exist any more. The client vanished from Second Life, and is presumed to have died in Real Life.

Amarin Xi - Top left on map. OpenSpaces Sim (Homestead by current standards):
This sim had dramatic fijords, and a re-creation of the Chinese Imperial Palace at Shenyang.

Amarin Bei - Center top on map, OpenSpaces Sim (Homestead by current standards):
Featured equestrian paddocks and a huge lake on a 65M high plateau, that was usable for swimming with PrimSwim water. The lake also had several boats that were custom adapted to work on the lake and in the moat of the monestary in the next sim East. A 70 M long rope suspension bridge connected this sim to Amarin Xi's plateau, crossing a deep gorge.

Amarin Island - Top right on map, Full Sim. :
Featured a detailed 4-story Tibetian monestary, with ten levels of basements, dungeons and caves beneath it. This was the client's main residence, and was based on the Paro Dzong, a Tibetan monestary in Bhutan.

Amarin Nan - Center sim on map, OpenSpaces Sim (Homestead by current standards):
Featured equestrian riding areas on a 65M high plateau, as well as a riding trail closer to water level thet encircled the entire 5-sim coastline.

Amarin Dong - Center right sim on map, OpenSpaces Sim (Homestead by current standards):
Featured a large harbor, a lighthouse, and a huge waterfall coming down from the moat around the monestary in Amarin Island. A hidden tunnel under the waterfall provided access from this sim into the caves under the Monestary in the Amarin Island sim.

Sunrise Hopes - Center bottom sim on map, OpenSpaces Sim (Homestead by current standards):
Added later, this sim featured a small harbor in the caldera of a volcanic atol. A 250 Meter long bridge with a working elevating span connected this sim with the Amarin Nan sim.


Wailele Isle and Nohona Isle
Residential/commercial development for Dennis Bertone:

Work started 3/2006, ongoing improvements untl the sims were split apart and sold in 12/2006. Neither sim exists now on the grid.

This project was two full-prim sims, to be developed as residential commercial rental properties, modeled after resort islands in or near French Polynesia, Tahiti, and similar places. Nohona featured a large volcanic mountain with a lake in the caldera that could be used for swimming. A waterfall from the caldera lake to the lagoon concealed the entrance to a large set of caves, with 4 levels to explore. Wailele featured a water park with a swimming pool and water slides, surfing, and a shipwreck in the lagoon that could be explored.

The area was beautiful, but the islands never achieved sufficent publicity / occupancy to remain financially viable.