About this blog and its purpose

There are many things to do in Activeworlds virtual reality environment. I've chosen my way. It is a way of a builder. There are also many ways to build. My way is to create a virtual town.

The town is Horizon City. It was established January 2000 and it quickly became one of the most popular cities back then, with hundreds of builders. Besides that the town serves as historic reminder of how things were at Activeworlds, it is still constantly developing virtual experience, displaying latest features and architectural possibilities.

In this blog I will keep track how the things are going in Horizon City and in Activeworlds community.

Sunday, January 18, 2009

Another Curved Tower


Remember the Belle Van Zuylen tower I built earlier? Well, Im building another tower that has slighly similar form.

This one can be found at AW 6805s 14147e

Friday, December 12, 2008

An Epic Show of Talent


AWExpo 2008 is about to start in couple of hours. Many people are already walking and flying around this years exposition site. Horizon City booth is set, but they placed it other direction than I thought. Fortunately I was able to make some late modifications to get the entry to other direction than planned.

Teleport to AWExpo world here

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Screenshots from CY2008



I took couple screenshots from the CyAwards. There was about 200 individual avatars at most. Most are displayed here. Click the pictures for full resolution.

Sunday, November 16, 2008

CY Award for Horizon City!

Annual CyAwards gala was last night. There was many nominations and many categories for Activeworlds users to vote.

Horizon City scored this time by winning the category of Best Community or Town! That is great! Efforts for building the town for years has been rewarded by the AW community. Thank you all who voted!

As I said in my acceptance speech, I thank Activeworlds Inc. for providing unique virtual environment and maintaining its largest world, Alphaworld free for anyone to build. With the freedom and the latest features, we can build almost anything. From smallest details to huge cities.

Saturday, October 18, 2008

Sun rises at Alpha


Caretakers have set up daycycle for Alphaworld some days ago. Looks pretty cool if you happen to be online at right time. There pictures are from Horizon City, I took them last night.

Friday, October 17, 2008

From vision to reality

I have the original blueprint of Horizon City still on paper. The blueprint was made late 1999 and filled with citizen names as they built in the city.

I've combined parts of the original blueprint and current map data.  You can see the names of early builders of the city as they were written to the original plan.

Saturday, October 11, 2008

Detailed Paving


The new scaling feature allows builders to make more real paving. Check out some of those here.