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Whether you are being welcomed to Virtual Paradise, or you are someone who wants to simply learn more of the inner workings of VP, this is the article for you! If you are unable to find the answer to your question, please join our Discord server for support!

General

What is Virtual Paradise?

Virtual Paradise is an custom-made, online sandbox platform that is heavily inspired by virtual worlds from the 1990s & early 2000s. There is no real objective in VP unlike most games, and can be similarly also compared to something like Minecraft creative mode. There are a series of online servers called worlds that anyone can visit and mostly build within, although most users will gravitate towards Blizzard or VP-Build to create content in.

Who develops VP?

Virtual Paradise is maintained and developed by Edwin as a hobby project during his spare-time. He is the benevolent dictator-for-life of the VP project.

Is this an AW clone?

Virtual Paradise takes heavy inspiration from Active Worlds in particular as VP began development during the hey-day of Active World's prominence as the premier virtual world during the early 2000s. Most of the existing community came from Active Worlds or an inspired server using AW software, so the culture within the general community can be somewhat familiar to a veteran who primarily used AW. VP however, does not use any source code from AW and is a completely homebrew sandbox platform. However, VP does have a lot of very similar building functions that make it mostly compatible with AW-style content creation, as well as a similar user interface.

Controls

How do I move around?

Virtual Paradise uses both WASD & arrow keys for movement.

  • W/Up Arrow is used to move forward, S/Down Arrow is used to move backward.
  • Left/Right Arrows is used to move left or right, but A/D are used to strafe left & right.
  • Page Up/Page Down is used to look up & down, flying/hovering can be done by using the + & - keys.
  • Shift can be used to go through objects and terrain.
  • Holding CTRL while using arrow keys can be used to run/move faster.
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