Rise: The Vieneo Province (abbreviated to Rise) is an Internet-based virtual world that has been in development since January, 2003 and was offered commercially beginning in April, 2006. Through a downloadable client program, users interact with each other through motional vehicles and avatars, providing an advanced level of a social network service combined with general aspects of a metaverse.
While Rise is sometimes referred to as a game, in ge...
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Rise: The Vieneo Province (abbreviated to Rise) is an Internet-based virtual world that has been in development since January, 2003 and was offered commercially beginning in April, 2006. Through a downloadable client program, users interact with each other through motional vehicles and avatars, providing an advanced level of a social network service combined with general aspects of a metaverse.
While Rise is sometimes referred to as a game, in general it does not have points, scores, winners or losers, levels, an end-strategy, or most of the other characteristics of a typical game. Players, often called "citizens", can visit this virtual world almost as if it were a real place. They explore, meet other citizens, socialize, participate in individual and alliance activities, and buy and produce goods (virtual property) and services from one another. As they spend more time in the world, they learn new skills and mature socially, learning the culture and manners of a virtual environment....
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