Speaking of indie games, there's a new kind of SL roleplaying game from Grendel's Children, longtime and widely admired manufacturer of fantastic bestiary avatars in Second Life: LifeCycle Rats, which as the name suggests, turns your avatar into a rodent, and comes with an incredibly detailed heads-up display, for doing many many rat-like things.

Created by Grendel's Flea Bussy, "Flea designed the Rat Lifecycle game as the first one of a whole series of animal lifecycles," Grendel's Toady Nakamura tells me. "Imagine really being a dinosaur!" They actually created an earlier version of the LifeCycle Rat a few years ago, but have hugely upgraded it since then. Looks about as complicated as roleplaying a Skyrim mage-warrior, except, you know, more bitey. Click here to read the details, and click here for a direct SLurl teleport to get ratted up.