
Simulation
Virtual life
You create an avatar and live through it in an online virtual world shared with other people: socialising, working, shopping or building. There is no main quest; the experience is life in that community.
Also known as: virtual world
This is a basic entry: it has the definition and the classification. Full entries add history, games and a demo.
History
- 1986Origin
Lucasfilm Games' Habitat opened its beta in 1986 on Quantum Link for the Commodore 64: it was the first attempt at a large-scale commercial graphical virtual community.
Habitat (video game) (Wikipedia) - 2003
Second Life opens to the public a virtual world whose content is created by its own residents.
Second Life (Wikipedia)