Second Life Game Developer's Competition

Linden Labs, the makers of the virtual world Second Life, is sponsoring a new 2L Game Developer's Competition. The contest invites users to create quests, races, brain teasers, combat games, or anything designed to get Second Life citizens together. First prize is $500 per team member, a year's subscription to 2L, and 8 acres of Second Life land to do with as you please. From the contest page: "Linden Lab will select up to eight teams of 2 to 4 members each to participate in the competition. Each selected team will receive, for a period of up to three months, free temporary accounts for team members, free use of the Second Life development tools, and free use of approximately 3 acres of land in Second Life for the purpose of creating its proposed game and offering it for play by Second Life residents."

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And no one is interested because:

[Umbral Blot]

Doesn't seem like many slashdot users are intersted in 2nd life, i bet because reading slashdot and EQ/WOW take up all their free time. Plus as a subscription service 2nd life doesn't seem to offer much in the way of "fun" (in my opinion). Anyways it seems hard to get people interested in developing for something they probably won't be able to enjoy, as only the winning team gets a free subsrciption. It seems more likely that any developers who could be doing this would find it much more rewarding to do Open Source work, after all they would get to use it after they were done.