By CaseySlate  on Wed 02 of Dec., 2009 20:45 GMT

This is your story… and it begins now.

How will it end? Will it ever end?

Its all up to you… You, and your rag tag crew of colonists and settlers, all freshly thawed from a millennium of cold storage and plugged back into your minds.

Our goal:

To leave the traditional concept of collaborating in the metaverse behind, devising new ways of working and playing in virtual worlds.

Our concept:

Gridrock city is made up of guilds. Each guild focuses on a certain aspect of 3d content creation providing an outlet for education, discussion, socializing, and earning BLU$. Working together, the guilds collaborate to make wondrous things, and share them in a creative science fiction based environment.

Guilds Membership :

First things first.. You’ve just been reanimated, you’re disoriented… Relax, take some time to explore the City. When you want to get settled in, you can choose any of the available apartments in the guild halls or other locations to live in, or you can build and upload your own home with a choice of locations on a ‘prospector’ plot.

Next, get an idea of the Gridrock Guilds, and how joining a guild gives you shelves in the guild shop to sell your wares and the support of fellow guild members.

If you are interested in joining a guild , you will need to contact the Guild Steward responsible for activities in your interest area, please contact us for more information.

There are many areas of crossover between the guilds, but each guild individually is focussed around the Guild Shop. For launch we are offering membership in a refined choice of guilds:

Elementals guild – landscape and natural objects
Tailors guild – avatar clothing and style
Masons guild – architecture and design
Directors guild – animation and production
Authors guild – writing and character design
Merchants guild – economy and general trade
Mechanics guild – Vehicle and scripting related
Guild membership includes:

-Residence
-shop space
-upload your creations
-blog space
-technical support
Fees: (will be finalized when Blue Mars Economy is ready, all will be payable in BLU$ Please talk to us about reservations)

Guild membership:
BLU$ equivalent of Popular MMO fees
Guild Prospector:
Basic Guild Membership +
Upload / Conversion charges depending on model
Join us on this expedition into creation, please talk to us about how you can get started with a residence and shop space in our city.

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By CaseySlate  on Wed 02 of Dec., 2009 19:31 GMT

Main site at www.gridrock.com will be warped slightly to include a land store, and more general information about Blue mars, GRC and the services we offer.

-C

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By CaseySlate  on Mon 30 of Nov., 2009 08:29 GMT

Discussions tend to form patterns, and the pattern of Blue mars content creation banter is that it somehow excludes the hobbyist from having any fun with making 3d stuff. This is so completely unfounded it just makes me cringe when i see these kind of comments. Granted it is more challenging, but the results are very much worth some learning time, don't you think?

We at GRC are committed to prove all the naysayers wrong and help you get started building your dream in Blue Mars right now! We can support your goals from making and selling a handful of avatar items, to large shops and blocks for established metaverse and RL brands.

This is serious fun happening here folks, here's your chance to get involved early and beat the rush!!

-C

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ZetsumeiIeyashi of http://lifeinbluemars.blogspot.com/ has graciously agreed to help us with the story of GridRock City. The Authors guild will invent characters and plot lines for use by NPC dialogs and story elements in the city, if you are interested in joining now is the time to get in touch!

We are really excited to be involved with this dynamic and charismatic fellow, looking forward to some great mystery and science fiction tales.

-C

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By CaseySlate  on Thu 26 of Nov., 2009 09:18 GMT

It was right around the time I started playing around with Blue Mars (early summer 09) that a friend pointed me to a video on daily motion about Nikola Tesla. From that point on it just made sense to base the new Blue mars city on his exploits.

I hope you enjoy your experiences with GRC, never think that we are too busy to talk to you guys.. this forum is here for your questions!

Here is a slightly shorter version of the video:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2188562935002257117#

-C

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Awesome little group that showed! here's the proof of magic!!

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event listing

Come on by and talk about our guilds, what they are, and how to join with us in this creative venture of Blue Mars. We will be answering questions about making content for our guilds, residence ,shop and blocks rentals.

We'd also like to get footage for a new video, featuring a club and updates to the residential area we will be featuring next release, so come ready to dance!!!

whyroc, miraculously has returned from a time vortex - wormhole that he stumbled on in the hills behind the water fall, will also be performing some magic for all of us.

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Ongoing changes for the next few days. We are looking for writers and bloggers to keep the content fresh here, please don't hesitate to register and contribute!!

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I logged in using the shortcut to my development client where I can log into the Blue mars servers, but it directs to my local version.

Lo and behold, there's an AV there! A newb to boot.. not even developer. I had thought that the instance where we log in to test was separated.. they may have made some changes. it good news because now we can do some real multi user testing from local copies of the city..

/me scratches my head ... if anyone is about, got a minute to help test out a little theory?

-Corey

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