Business people are seeing the potential with virtual worlds and marketing, it’s a low cost way to bring your product to a world wide audience with very little limitations on displaying the way your product actually works and looks.  Sometimes it can be great fun for the avatars too, to sample the items, especially if the product is something that thousands of people enjoy in real life and it becomes available in SL.

I had the privilege yesterday to test a new game that will be released in SL in the next few weeks. The incredibly popular board game 'Blag' by Futurus Games, which has sold thousands of copies in real life, has been adapted and is coming to the virtual world. Its rules are simple, it's fun and you can win some Lindens to make it even more exciting!

I met creator Mafiawl Mower (his avatar name), at a secret location yesterday and he introduced me to his agent Jonny Fraisse.  I also met Clare Loring, Clare has helped Mafiawl with the project of bringing the game in-world from day one.

Blag is a picture game where you try to guess what the displayed picture actually is, your skill comes into it though, if you can convince the other players that your guess is the right one, even if you have blagged and made it up.  You will win if the other players believe you and vote for your answer.

Although a board game in real life, Blag is played on a screen in SL giving you a good view of the pictures, you then link to the Blag website to take part. This was easy to do, by reducing both SL and my browser screen to view them together, I found this a comfortable way to play. We only played a few rounds, but I got hooked straight away, it's fun competing with the others and I really enjoyed trying to guess what the pictures were. I will definitely practice my blagging skills and see if I can win lots of money! Jonny won yesterday and kindly shared his winnings with us fellow blaggers!

For just a few Linden dollars a game you can meet your friends in-world to play, even if you can't meet up in real life, you still have the virtual option. Mafiawl also showed me the cinema where the Blag game will be installed when it's ready for release, and I think sim owners should consider introducing Blag into their regions to attract traffic. I can't wait for the game to begin so I can test my blagger skills!!

Any queries regarding Blag should be sent to Mafiawl Mower on a notecard in-world or you can contact him at the webpage below.

(http://www.blaggame.co.uk/content/home.asp)