Title Making virtual worlds : Linden Lab and Second Life / Thomas M. Malaby.

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Description	1 online resource (x, 165 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction : a developer's-eye view -- The product : Second Life, capital, and the possibility of failure in a virtual world -- Tools of the gods -- Knowing the gamer from the game -- The birth of the cool -- Precarious authority -- Appendix A. The Tao of Linden -- Appendix B. The mission of Linden Lab.
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Subject	Linden Lab (Firm)
	Linden Lab (Firm)
	Linden Lab (Firm)
	Second Life (Game) -- Social aspects.
	Second Life (Game)
	Social aspects.
	Shared virtual environments -- Case studies.
	Shared virtual environments.
Genre/Form	Case studies.
Subject	Video games -- Design -- Social aspects -- Case studies.
	Video games -- Design.
	Business anthropology -- California -- San Francisco -- Case studies.
	Business anthropology.
	California -- San Francisco.
	Corporate culture -- California -- San Francisco -- Case studies.
	Corporate culture.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Case studies.
Other Form:	Print version: Malaby, Thomas M., 1967- Making virtual worlds. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2009 (DLC) 2008052550
ISBN	9780801458996 (electronic book)
	0801458994 (electronic book)
	9780801447464
	0801447461