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This is a powerful system as the developer is able to
utilise all the power of multiple libraries, high level
programming and IDE development tools and at the
same time behave in-world as if they were just writ-
ing and re-loading a script, never having to restart the
server.
6 CONCLUSIONS
Network island is an example of the scope of project
that can now be developed within a virtual world plat-
form. It is a full, dynamic, adaptive, interactive, dis-
tributed system that gives users a tool to help them
understand an abstract concept. It demonstrates that
not only can something like this be developed but it
can be developed at a level of abstraction which al-
lows educators to go in and write plug ins for the sys-
tem to alter it depending on what they need to teach.
This project shows the scope which is available when
developing in a virtual world and leverages relatively
young technology to look at a new direction which
can be taken with these environments. By develop-
ing the system as essentially a plugin which can then
support further plug ins it shows how a system can be
put together which works within virtual world’s tra-
dition of easy development and simple scripting but
has considerably more power behind it than has pre-
viously been available.
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