10.11.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 3:12 am by Damien Fate
Hi everyone!
With the launch of the Halloween game, Loco Pocos has been busier than ever before, and it seems we have also gained a lot of new fans!
Not only this, but Loco Pocos as a whole has exploded in just the 3 short months since it launched on July 9th with only 5 avatars and a handful of accessories. We now boast over 30 avatars, around 100 accessories, a machinima series, over 6,000 visitors and a fan group that just toppled 300!
To those new to Loco Pocos, I welcome you and also inform you that if you liked the Halloween hunt - then there’s plenty more where that came from!
Loco Pocos Island has plenty more challenges and mini games for you to take part in, to get started simply go to the landing point and check out the “Loco Pocos Island” sign!
Have fun!
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10.07.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 5:15 am by Damien Fate
Come on down to Loco Pocos and enjoy a special event dream where you can take part in everyone’s favourite Halloween pastime, Trick or Treatin’!
In this limited time event, you are able to pick up no less than 7 special unique Loco Pocos accessories and have a chance at winning the fabled “Event only” avatar that is never sold in the store!
Get your Halloween costume on now and hit the virtual streets, the teleporter to the event can be found at the entry spot for Loco Pocos Island.
Enjoy!
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10.01.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 4:07 pm by Damien Fate
Congratulations to Skycat Ranger, your picture has earned you a Loco Pocos Mega All!
(Click the thumbnail for a larger image)
Interested in entering October’s Photo of the Month competition? View competition rules here!
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Posted in Uncategorized at 12:56 am by Damien Fate
Tiny Nation - a machinima featuring Loco Pocos avatars - launched today!
To celebrate it’s release, I am giving away a brand new Loco Pocos accessory that is used in 10 minute Tiny Nation premiere episode :D
Come on down to Loco Pocos and enter the Tiny Nation hut (next to the store). Left click (or buy for 0L$) the Baby Monitor found in the hut.
And be sure to watch the Tiny Nation machinima while you’re here, just hit play on your media options and enjoy :D
Click to teleport now!
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09.30.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 6:16 pm by Damien Fate
Ladies and gentlemen! I am very happy to announce the premiere of Tiny Nation!
Tiny Nation is a new original short from ILLclan Animation Studios, an amazing machinima team which I have the pleasure of working with.
Tiny Nation follows the heroic adventures of a band of motley mammals.
You can view Tiny Nation at Loco Pocos in a special viewing area which is based on one of the sets used in the film.
You can also visit ILLclan’s official blog page to view Tiny Nation at a higher resolution.
Tiny Nation has already been nominated for a Technical Achievement Award at the 2008 Machinima Film Festival!
Coming soon: Special packages of extras seen in Tiny Nation that you can take home :)
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09.29.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 4:00 pm by Damien Fate
I’m happy to present you with the start of the Loco Pocos Halloween range!
To start off, we have three new avatars as seen below!
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As with other Loco Pocos avatars, they come with the full AO, gestures and animations!
But this is not all there is to find at Loco Pocos in October! There are also some really fun Halloween accessories that are available in the Halloween section of the store, and more will come during the month, so make sure to come back!
And as if it couldn’t get better, towards the end of the month there will be a special event like none other in SL - so keep your eyes open!
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09.27.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 2:34 am by Damien Fate
Nothing much to worry about, but next week sometime Loco Pocos will be moving it’s position on the world map from it’s current location to a brand new area of the virtual globe.
This means that there may be a day you cannot use the map to search Loco Pocos in SL - but fear not! Your landmarks will still work :)
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09.22.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 3:56 pm by Damien Fate
I’m currently busying myself away on creating a line of Halloween based accessories and avatars!
Not only that, but I have on my lap some plans for a unique event that will take place on Loco Pocos Island closer to the 31st of October which you won’t find anywhere else in SL :)
Details soon!
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09.15.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 5:11 am by Damien Fate
I’m happy to present you with the start of the Loco Pocos Toys range!
To start off, we have three toys as seen below!
(Click the thumbnail for a larger image)
As usual, they’re available in a variety of colours and skins and are fully copy/modify for your convenience!
One thing I must say though, is that the toys are currently version 0.9. This doesn’t mean that they’re broken or have less features than version 1.0 will have, it is mainly because toys were not supposed to be released until I release version 1.5 of Loco Pocos avatars. But as you no doubt read, this has been delayed!
So I held off from doing much for a while, but it’s been too long! I decided today to release the toys as version 0.9 - the only difference is that they are not integrated with the current Loco Pocos HUD. An easy fix is that I have given you an additional hud for the toys specifically for now.
When I feel version 1.5 of the avatars can be released, your toys will also be automatically updated to version 1.0.
Until then, enjoy!
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09.06.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 5:24 pm by Damien Fate
Hi everyone,
I am sorry to say that I have to hold off releasing version 1.5 until certain issues are addressed with MONO scripting.
After adding all the new features (and then some!) to the Loco Pocos avatars and converting every single script to mono, I discovered that mono just doesn’t work nearly as well or as constant as it should.
You see, I scripted them on Loco Pocos Island, where the mono scripting (at the time) was lightning fast, worked like a dream. With this new found speed I improved a few other features to go along with it.
A day later that speed was suddenly gone, and mono was very very slow, maybe 100 times SLOWER than regular LSL scripts. I tested this out and it seemed that it was kind of random depending on which sim I was in if mono would live up to it’s potential. Regular LSL scripts continued to work just fine.
So now that I have updated all the avatars to 1.5 with mono I am forced to wait on releasing them until these issues clear up, I can’t release an avatar that will be broken.
If that wasn’t cruel enough, here’s a confirmed list of new features you’re going to get when Mono works:
- New re-uploaded animations to combat avatar unfolding
- New improved AO
- Typing animation overrider (So now you type just like a big av)
- Typing AO is toggleable
- Hands respond much quicker to being removed and create the ‘fake’ hand
- One HUD works for all, this is very good news and allows easier updates on the HUD
- More sleeve options for shirts. Now there are 5 sleeve styles!
- Permission fixes on some wrongly permissive items
- Compatibility with TOYS and Quest HUD (more on this soon)
1.5 is fantastic, I can’t wait to share it with you!
Stay tuned :)
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