Several SL-Merchants are starting a brand new sort of hunt+race in Second Life. We call it the “Happy Smiley hunt+race”. This is not a usual hunt. Here is why this is special:
Each merchant will hide a few 
Smileys in their shop. They are not easy to find because you will not be able to use scripted HUDs who will scan for hunt-item names (because they will change their names every minute) and you will not be able to spot them easily in wireframe-mode (because they are just a flat box with a texture).
If you find a Smiley you just touch it and it will tell you how many other items are in this shop. Most merchants will give out special gifts depending on the number of hidden items. For some gifts you have to find all items before you get the gift. All finds will be counted and the three avatars with the most finds will also get a linden dollar prize.
Since a normal scripted HUD will not work, you will get a special HUD from an info-giver that merchants will place in their shops. This 
Smiley-HUD will find the nearest hunt item and will also give you a hint that the merchant will provide for each of their items. So you can see how far you are away from the next item and the hint will tell you where you should look.
But wait, there is more! If you touch the info-giver, you can request:
a notecard with detailed information about the hunt+race,
the hint-HUD and
a free login to your personal hunter’s page (a website that opens in your web browser).
On your personal hunter’s page you will see how many stores are participating in the hunt, how many items are out to find. It will also show a list of the top ten hunters and if you are logged in, you can see your personal score and how many items you have found so far in which store. There will also be a complete list of all participating stores.
Prize money for the best hunters will be:
- 600 Linden-$ for the 1st. hunter with most finds
- 300 Linden-$ for the second and
- 100 Linden-$ for the third
In the event of a tie, cash prizes will be divided equally.
Merchants who want to participate can contact me in world (Jim Gustafson).
Comments 5
All working fine with the hunt so far. One avatar has found 108 items (all items available but now two other shops have joined).
24 shops are now active in this hunt
113 total hunt-items (smileys) are hidden
59 total gifts/prizes (not each smiley will give a prize)
Still looking for more merchants to join the hunt.
Posted 20 Jul 2009 at 7:23 am ¶hi..i can’t find the vendors with the password to log in or hud..:(
Posted 21 Jul 2009 at 11:44 am ¶if you come to my shop, there is the info-giver as a smaller sign directly under the big smiley-hunt announcement. You will also see it in all the other shops. Just click it and you will get a menu with options to choose (info, hint-giver-HUD and login).
Posted 21 Jul 2009 at 8:06 pm ¶more stats for today:
Posted 21 Jul 2009 at 8:09 pm ¶we now finished the second day of the hunt.
29 shops are now active in this hunt
136 total hunt-items (smilieys) can be found
71 total gifts/prizes to get from these
over 5000 smileys have already been found by the hunters.
Hunt is officially over. I’ll let out the smileys for a few hours as reference for the hunters, so you can still check the top twenty hunters.
12 hunters did get the 1st. prize (175 Linden each)
1 hunter did get the 2nd. prize (300 Linden)
2 hunters did get the 3rd. prize (50 Linden each)
Due to the large number of 1st. prize ties, some merchants donate another 1500 Linden that have been split between the 1st. prize winners.
Posted 25 Jul 2009 at 11:35 pm ¶Trackbacks & Pingbacks 1
[...] Happy Smilie Hunt Website [...]
Post a Comment