Tokyo, October 2006. About a week ago a typhoon came through, battering the city and destroying my umbrella on the way to work. So I ran into the combini and bought another umbrella. I wasn't the only one... the next day umbrellas littered the streets, some stripped down to just pieces of jangled metal.
But the next day, the weather was fantastic, sunny blue sky, smiling people walking the streets. The whole city washed clean. It reminded me of when I was in upstate New York and a blizzard left almost 2 meters of snow. The next day everyone was walking around with huge smiles on their face, staring at the white blanketed world like little kids.
Change can be good sometimes. New experiences, new sights and sounds, break you out of your routine and light up your brain.
Navispace is about to roll out on the website. We added a whole new world that looks better than the old box-city I had been using as a mock-up. Now there are beams of light, waterfalls, weird buildings.
Switching worlds is almost as easy as loading a new file into a word processor, which is cool. And hey, I was playing with weather effects as well, so if we want a snowstorm, or typhoon, or sunshine, in it goes. Maybe we'll mirror the real world weather, or let users vote on the weather of the day.
Until next time...
- Michael Ely
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